http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/07/24/cowboys-on-wheels/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:33:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/07/24/cowboys-on-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-1003113 David Cheney Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:44:56 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/07/24/cowboys-on-wheels/#comment-1003113 I was just looking over the article on the Wilhelm Bros. I grew up in Yermo right behind Walt and spent a lot of time out in the desert him. Walt and Ken were truly American heroes. They traveled out West as children on a covered wagon. The stories are endless. I saw these guys shoot collar buttons off each other's heads with arrows. Walt once told me that he cheated when lighting a match with an arrow because he glued sand paper on the shaft of the arrow.Contrary to Myth Busters opinion I have seen Walt split an arrow with another arrow. Ken grubstaked the family business by going into the logging camps in Canada and upper states and fighting the toughest guy they had for all the money they could come up with. Walter and Earl Stanley Gardner wrote "Pay Dirt" and "the Desert Is Yours" Walt wrote "Last Rig To Battle Mountain". Areally great story ! I was just looking over the article on the Wilhelm Bros. I grew up in Yermo right behind Walt and spent a lot of time out in the desert him. Walt and Ken were truly American heroes. They traveled out West as children on a covered wagon. The stories are endless. I saw these guys shoot collar buttons off each other’s heads with arrows. Walt once told me that he cheated when lighting a match with an arrow because he glued sand paper on the shaft of the arrow.Contrary to Myth Busters opinion I have seen Walt split an arrow with another arrow. Ken grubstaked the family business by going into the logging camps in Canada and upper states and fighting the toughest guy they had for all the money they could come up with. Walter and Earl Stanley Gardner wrote “Pay Dirt” and “the Desert Is Yours” Walt wrote “Last Rig To Battle Mountain”. Areally great story !

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