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"The Last Star Mill"
by Gordon Snidow
Size: 26" X
34"
$30.00
The original star solid-wheel windmill was the second most
popular wooden windmill on the southern Great Plains from the 1880's through the
1920's. Invented by David C.
Walling in 1878, it was marketed by Flint, diameters from ten to
twenty-six-feet.
Tattered and torn this aging symbol of the settlement of
the Great Plains is fast disappearing. The
wind tears at their remains and as the wooden mills wear out, they are replaced
by pumps.
There are a few ranches where preservation of our western
heritage is important. Where
they still take the wagon out. Where
cowboying is still done the traditional way, "dragging calves to the
fire." Where an effort is made
to keep the Star Mill working, not because it is the best or the easiest way to
do it; but, because they care. Too
soon, the sun will set on "The Last Star Mill", and not long after
that, the last cowboy. A way of
life will end.
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