prune picker

This is the blog of a prune picker. (Native born Californian) Retired oilfield. I am an old man. I blog a lot about my body and getting old. As I approach death life gets more interesting. More interesting is not good. I still drive. I attend sports, music, and civic events. I am writing my memoirs. I attend swim class three times a week. Some of my blogs might be interesting. A lot of my blogs are silly and trivial. None are very long.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Cowhide Thrower.

This is a statue of a man throwing a cowhide over a cliff. It is at Dana Point where Richard Henry Dana threw cowhides over the cliff in 1835. Dana told of his adventures in the book "Two years before the mast".

The hides were called California greenbacks because they were worth about a dollar. The hide was worth more than the meat.




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