Three weeks into August, a freak storm dumped two inches of sleet and hail on Bear Trap Ranch, Colo. (9,100 feet elevation). We left in the wee hours of the morning under “blizzard” conditions, traveling through Amarillo and Childress and arriving at the Wichita Falls bus station later that day with my final destination of Abilene. At 100°F, I no longer needed the coat! That was 1979, and ...