just for fun - pictures with horses, mules, and a donkey.
In no particular order, here are many of our pictures with horses, mules, and, yes, a donkey, in them.
the first livery stable in table rock
This is a photo of a photo. The original is larger than our scanner, but it will be scanned one of these days. Photo 3103.
Sitzman Repair stands where the barn one was. I believe it was originally Taylor and Beck, the Taylor being William L. Taylor; the building now housing the Argus Museum was built for his store. Taylor & Beck also operated a stage line, shuttling people from the depot to town. Taylor went his way, leaving Beck. The building burned down and was replaced by a two-story brick building, the front part of which survives. It was as an "auto livery" for some , then acquired by Rudy Karas who used it as an auto sales and repair shop.
Sitzman Repair stands where the barn one was. I believe it was originally Taylor and Beck, the Taylor being William L. Taylor; the building now housing the Argus Museum was built for his store. Taylor & Beck also operated a stage line, shuttling people from the depot to town. Taylor went his way, leaving Beck. The building burned down and was replaced by a two-story brick building, the front part of which survives. It was as an "auto livery" for some , then acquired by Rudy Karas who used it as an auto sales and repair shop.
This is a photocopy of a photo labeled "1888, Taylor & Beck Bus and Livery Barn": Photo 400.
Below, in the Argus, February 17, 1893: Taylor built his new store in 1894,leaving J. C. Beck on his own.
Below on the left October 12, 1894
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May 24, 1904:
May 24, 1900
charles & nora harris stevicks with
their fine team of three mules and a white horse
Nora Harris Stevicks was one of the children of Peter Jacob Harris. Her siblings included Vess, John, and Earl Harris, Frances Harris Shepherd, and Jane Harris Carter. This photo was shared by Veda Flyger, a granddaughter of Charles and Nora. She says that her grandfather often worked horses and mules together. Charles and Nora moved to South Dakota, where they lived out their lives, but Veda believes that based on their apparent ages they were still in Nebraska when this was taken. Photo 3614.
junior (fred) muscheites
Photos 1867a and b, Junior on his horse, named Pet, with Laddie & Towser . Descendant Terry Korrel, who owns the picture, says that this was her Uncle Fred's favorite picture. It's definitely a dandy!
julia gold and little howard binder
The horse's name was Nancy. Photo 2923, no date. Thanks to Historical Society member Richard Binder for sharing this photo!
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lawrence wilcox
albert miller
Albert Miller on Diane and Patsy, 1954, shared by grandson Gregg Clement Photo 3026.
a photo from gilbert
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No name, but it's a neat picture! Photo 7500.
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jack kalina
Photo 4006, shared by Sherry Wilcox
When Sherry Wilcox posted this on Facebook, she got a rise from Jack's sister Linda; Jack is not on Facebook, Linda is. As of 2017, Jack is 63, so this picture was taken about 1968 (if Jack is old as 17 in the picture). Sherry says she took the picture with her Polaroid Swinger. She had gone to the Kalinas with her Aunt Dorothy Anna. "We are so glad you took it," said Linda, who had shown the picture to Jack. "So many memories," she added.
and his old GRAY horse rowdy
We have no picture to go with this so you will have to use your imagination. Francis Butler was born in Ireland in 1822. He came here from Illinois and was twice widowed; his wives names were Bethena and Mary Jane. He had to leave Table Rock in his old age because of his health, and died at the home of his adopted daughter, "Mrs. Hi Lawrence" in 1907, at the age of 85. His obituary included this:
...Mr. Butler was an early settler of Table Rock . . . For many years, he carried the mails to and from the post office and depot, never missing a mail, and he and his old gray horse Rowy were familiar figures on our streets.
joe hays
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Looks like Joe was hauling a house that day, competing with Charlie McCourtney!
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frank howard horses in pawnee city
He was a well known horse trader. Table Rock people would likely have dealt with him.
faithful old lucy
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Here's little Ron Woods on old Lucy. Cora Gilbert Kent, his grandmother, wrote a note on the back of the picture, which is just below. Thanks to Jon Woods for sharing this family photo! I told him I was putting together a collection of pictures of horses and he popped two pictures to me by email the same day. It's now Photo 1776. Dr. Ronald Kent Woods (1917-2001) is buried in the Table Rock Cemetery along with many other Woods and Kent family members.
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cora kent
In another family photo shared by Jon Woods, here is his grandma Cora Gilbert Kent (1874-1971) holding the pony. The kids are Marilyn Kent, Ross Brown, and David Kent. This is now Photo 1775. Thanks to Jon for sharing this and so many other family pictures.
where is it?
This photo is in our collection. We don't know who is in it or where the photo is taken. While the trees in the background seem like trees in the Square, the house in the distance is unfamiliar. This may not be in Table Rock, but it's a neat picture and worth looking at.
viola roberts
Veterinarian Bill Frank (1860-1941) with horse Viola Roberts. The other men are unidentified.
Photo 201
Photo by archer king, circa 1908-1910
Photo 1708
unidentified man, circa 1910
Photo 1709, probably circa 1910, probably photographer Archer King, then of Table Rock.
unidentified girl
Photo 1697 is probably circa 1910, based on other photos that this one was with. The photographer was likely Archer King,then of Table Rock. No idea who the little girl is, too bad.
"uncle bill" with horses and wagon
Photo 1455
Thanks to Al McClintock for sharing this family photo.
Mike (bruce) McCourtney & Midge the pony,
circa the "teens" of the 1900s
Photo 2403 - Midge was the family pony. On Midge is Delores McCourtney Penkava's dad Bruce (nickname Mike). Mike was born in 1906. Delores recalls stories that her grandma McCourtney would send Midge to the store for groceries; Midge would go to town on her own and stop at the store and the grocer would load the wagon. She also sent Midge to take the kids to and from school; if they missed Midge, they had to walk home. Here's another one of Midge:
Photo 564, the kids are Maude, Hazel, Mike, and Pat. This is a McCourtney picture. Mike is one of Charlie & Lula McCourtney's kids.
the rough riders saddle club, 1960
On the horses are Candy Stewart, Karen Wenzbauer, and Linda McDonald. The men are Howard Klein and Stanley Bowen. Photo 1767.
Thanks to Brad & Susan Bowen for sharing this family picture. They also gave this background information:
Thanks to Brad & Susan Bowen for sharing this family picture. They also gave this background information:
Leaders in 1960 were Harold Kline, Howard Herrick and Stanley Bowen.
Members were Lyle Rolofson (?), Ronnie Gilbert, Bob Uhri, Lonnie Herrick, Larry Gilbert, Linda McDonald, Bill Petrashek, George Lambert, Gary Herrick, Nancy Herrick, Cynthia Stewart, Dale Herrick, Karen Wenzbauer, Rodney Covault, John & Kenny Burgett, Bill Uhri, Mary Jane Petrashek, Candy Stewart, Patty Gilbert and Greg Bowen.
This is what Brad found in a book that his mom had.
They practiced east of the ball field, north of where Den's is now.
a photo owned by charlie mccourtney
Photo 560 is a family photo shared by Delores McCourtney Penkava. It is marked as having been given to Charlie McCourtney (her grandpa), and is a picture of a harvest. We don't know where it was or who the people are. This type of haystack was typical in the late 1800s.
a horse being fed by a little girl who would marry a man who became governor of nebraska
Martha ("Flossie") Grove McKelvie in Table Rock. She married Sam McKelvie, who became governor. It was during his term that the construction of the present Nebraska Capitol building was conceived and undertaken. I don't think the horse was thinking into the future, nor was she. Photo 1258.
1890 - m. h. marble at his farm
The farm was just south of town and remnants of it were there until only a few years ago. That's M. H., his wife Amanda and son Max, Joe Morse is the man to the left.
Photo 985
unidentified woman & child
Photo 150
lula mccourtney's cook wagon & mccourtney graders
Lula McCourtney followed her husband Charlie McCourtney, who then owned McCourtney Graders. The Graders worked big projects, like moving and building rail beds, water courses, and dams. As the outfit grew, Lula got a cook tent -- it's huge, looks like a circus tent. The photos with the tent are dated 1909 or so.
Photo 2460.
It's Lula's cook wagon, but she's not in the picture. That's Charlie McCourtney standing to the left. On top of the wagon are Charles Sid Craig, John Grapenut, and Sam Trigg. Inside are Bruce and Maude McCourtney. Below are some pictures of the McCourtney Graders. They used a lot of horse and mule power1
Photo 2461
Photo 2407
Detail of Photo 2407
Photo 548. In the immediate background is the railroad bridge across Taylor Branch that can be seen to the south of the Highway 4 bridge. Really.
Photo 762, McCourtney Graders, no date.
Photo 587
McCourtney Graders at site for a dam for Crete Roller Mills. Photo 555.
McCourtney Graders moving a railroad bed, unknown location. That's Charlie on the right, downhill.
Photo 549. In 1897, Charlie McCourtney went to Canada to learn how to handle huge loads with 15 or 20 horses, each with a different lead. Charlie is the one standing on the ground, on right. Thanks to Delores McCourtney Penkava for sharing this picture. Thanks to Dick McCourtney for explaining what it was. Both are grandchildren of Charlie & Lula McCourtney
a chataqua at horse shoe lake in the 1890s
Someone is leaving in their carriage.
Photo 1423
on luzerne street looking east
Delores McCourtney Penkava says that is her grandpa Charlie McCourtney at the far right.
jess vondrasek
Photo 1403
stanley blecha
Stanley Blecha (1909-1988), always gregarious, kind, and a mechanical whiz.
Photo 1423
1941 - stanley bowen driving the old horse-drawn fire wagon
Photo by Arvid Blecha, Photo 233.
stanley bowen, 1957
Photo 3937 Stanley Bowen with horse, circa 1957, shared by grandson Brad Bowen
a horse full of kids
Photo 7349, Greg Bowen, Donnita Paulson,siblings Teresa & Doug Bowen, shared by Doug Bowen
1918 - "Mr. Heer in table rock"
Presumably Ben Heer. Photo 871.
ben heer's son john
Photo 6611, shared by Linda Warner
Photo 3959, John Heer with teams, shared by Brad Bowen
a heer girl
"Heer daughter and friend, Photo 6617, shared by Linda Warner.
1909 - a 4th of july parade (on july 3) in pawnee city
Photo 1607 by Asher King, then of Table Rock. Thanks to his daughter Laura Turnbull, a Historical Society member, for sharing it!
mr. & mrs. adam hays
Photo 881
stepanek harvest
A two horse-power baling machine. The horses are working at a turnbuckle, which turns a shaft that drives the baler.
Photo 227
henry hays making hay
Photo 1515
jack purcell passing by
Photo 671. Thanks to Historical Society member Terry Hunt Korell for sharing this family photo!
a horse-zcbj float? duh! what else would pull it then?
Photo 19
Photo 21
Photo 22
more at the fair
Photo 1755, Stanley Bowen leading a parade in Table Rock
1912 - a chavaree underway for charles & hazel cook
That's the groom on the donkey!
george kreifel, sr. and his team
Photo 7142, shared by Ronnie Gilbert, who thinks that the Palomino to the right may be ridden by Albert Miller.
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susie kreifel huberSusie remembers about her grandpa:
Believe the horses names were "Baldy and Betty" as I remember a team he had by that name. Always did all his farming with horses. |
elmo burow & his farmall -- and horses
Elmo Burow in front of a hay stack, his Farmall tractor & a team. Photo 8279, shared by Gary Frank.
another chivaree
Photo 145. Don't know who anyone is. Too bad!
crossing the bridge during high water
I recognize this as probably the bridge over Taylor Creek in the early 1900s, based on another photo from that time period. Look at that brick sidewalk. It was said to go from the depot and all the way up town. Remnants of it are still there, some just below the surface of the ground.
Photo 492
a procession in table rock
Looks like somebody on the march -- Suffragettes, the W.C.T.U. (the temperance group, very active here). Or it MIGHT be a parade. Note the windmill at the site of a town well used for watering horses, etc., while in town; the water fountain pagoda was built at that site in 1926.
Photo 1402
Detail of Photo 1402
at the fair, 1950s
Photo 5132, no name or date, from an album with many photos of the fair donate by Ines Madden
Photo 5107, Chuck Hall. From an album with many photos of the fair donate by Ines Madden
Photo 5107b, no names or date, from an album with many photos of the fair donate by Ines Madden
Siblings Chuck,Trish, and Joan Hall. Photo 5119, from an album with many photos of the fair donate by Ines Madden
Sharla sitzman on kristine binder's horse topsy, circa 1965
Shared by Sharla
ron woods and his mule, 1923
Thanks to Jon Woods for sharing this picture of his dad!
headed to town
Photo 124
from 1908 - THE WAY WE DO It here!
This 1908 novelty postcard is by Asher King, then of Table Rock. Photo 1602.
Photo 3149, Charlie McCourtney
Ernest Frank dragging the road (maintaining it by leveling it).
Photo 1420, shared by Brenda Frank.
Photo 3115, Gordon Bethel, shared by Bob & Jeanne Bethel
Samuel Bethel with his favorite breed of horse,a Suffolk-Punch, shared by Bob & Jeanne Bethel
riders at the presbyterian church
The church was built in 1890 and torn down in 1926 when the congregation merged with the Methodists. This photo is undated and there are no names. Photo 297.
racing program 1928 showing an entry by bill frank, huxie maid
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January 6, 1917
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August 3, 1911
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August 1907
1917
October 3, 1912
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1954
August 9, 1900, W.C. Fellers trotting horse Jersey Boy
1898
June 13, 1901
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July 13, 1894
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October 12, 1894
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UNIDENTIFIED HORSE WITH A MAN IN A SUIT
Photo 3756, unidentified, a family photo shared by Gary Frank
THE BUROW FAMILY'S TRICK HORSE
Keith, Delores, AND Shirley with the family's trick horse. Photo 8803, shared by Michelle Sheldon
Looks like that same horse, although it's not labeled. No names, but looks like Elmo, Charlie, and Keith? Photo 8428, shared by Gary Frank
the horses are members of the
burow family
From Gary Frank -- Elmo Burow (2nd from left) with children Keith, Delores, and Shirley, and Elmo's dad Charlie. Photo 8280.
ron gilbert's horse silver, 1957
Silver next to the Reno Inn in 1957; it was the Gilbert home at the time. Photo 6401, shared by Ron.
Photo 6402
Photo 6361, Frank Slama with his team
memorial day weekend 2017
Hanna's horse after the ceremony dedicating the tombstone of Wm. McNeal, who died in the Civil War. McNeal was in the cavalry and th riderless horse with cavalry boots backwards in the stirrups led the procession of Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil WAr into the Table Rock Cemetery. 2017. Photo 6647 by Sherry Winkinhofer.