Grace E. Larson - Fay: In Her Own Words - A Living Legacy

Fay

In Her Own Words - A Living Legacy

GRACE LARSON

Fay

Copyright 2020 by Grace Larson. All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any way by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the author except as provided by USA copyright law.

The opinions expressed by the author are not necessarily those of URLink Print and Media.

1603 Capitol Ave., Suite 310 Cheyenne, Wyoming USA 82001

1-888-980-6523 |

URLink Print and Media is committed to excellence in the publishing industry.

Book design copyright 2020 by URLink Print and Media . All rights reserved.

Published in the United States of America

ISBN 978-1-64753-153-9 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64753-154-6 (Hardback)

ISBN 978-1-64753-155-3 (Digital)

11.12.19

CONTENTS

My aunt, Fay Poloson Haynes, was born January 4, 1926 in Helena, Montana. Fays mother, Annie Mae DesChamps Poloson, was born in Indian Territory, Mansfield, Arkansas, February 8, 1889. Mae came west by train in 1910 and Homesteaded near Three Forks, Montana.

Fays father, Dan Poloson, was born October 26, 1896 near Porumbacu, Romania. Dan immigrated to the United States in 1916. He was working for the Herron Sheep Ranch near Wolf Creek when he and Mae were married March 2, 1922.

They bought the Rattlesnake Gulch Ranch in 1929. Fay was 3 years old when they moved, by train, from Wolf Creek, Montana to the Lonepine-Niarada area ranch. The trip from where the train stopped at Perma to the ranch was 37 miles. They hauled all their belongings on old trucks.

Fay was almost 15 when I was born and 17 when my sister, Alice, was born. Fay was our Second Mom.

Rattlesnake Gulch was aptly named as Fays story on these snakes will show. Fay went to school at Lonepine, Montana.

Aunt Fay was a woman of so many Talents. She could sew beautifully making most of her and Bills shirts, dress coats, and dress slacks. Embroidery and, even crewel, were skills she developed. It took her almost 2 years to complete the Crewel of Bill on horseback. Fays oil and pencil paintings are so well defined and will be shown throughout this book. She could make melt in your mouth pie crust too.

Fay knew good horses and rode many of them. Her very favorite was Night and next was Jule Bar. Jule Bar and his son, Jumpy Jule took Fay all the way to the Montana Cowboy Hall Of Fame. She won so many Barrel Racing, Pole Bending, and Western Show events over the years. She performed at the Calgary Stampede, Walla Walla, Grand Coulee, Washington, Lethbridge, Canada, and in most of Montanas rodeos.

Fays rodeo life began when she was a teenager. She was chosen Rodeo Queen and held that title for several years at the Polson, Hot Springs, and Plains, Montana Rodeos.

She was Secretary for Jake Johnsons rodeo events for close to 10 years. Fay knew rodeo stock and met many good cowboys over the years.

The cowboy she fell in love with was working as a judge at the Polson Rodeo. He had a wrist injury, so he wasnt riding bulls, bareback horses, or bulldogging. Fay and he started talking and ended up married December 15, 1951.

They bought the Big Bend Ranch from Bud Lake and began their life of raising top quality horses and prize Angus cattle. Fay had a Palomino part Arab stallion, Aprils Diamond, then a Thoroughbred stallion, Riskulus. She and Bill bought Riftez, an Arab stallion, from a Remount Station in Nevada, then Jule Bar, a bay quarter horse, caught Bill eye.

He was a son of Sugar Bars and a Grandson of Three Bars TB. Three Bars brought speed and athleticism turning blocky quarter horses into sleek built athletes. Jule Bar had all of these qualities; he took Fay to the winners circle plus his winning genes were carried on by his sons and daughters.

After Jule Bars life was destroyed in the Missoula Fairgrounds fire in 1967, Fay and Bill bought the quarter horse stallion, Bar Blair; next was Triple Coen, and Jules Gold Bar. After Bills death in 1975 Fay had 2 AQHA stallions, Lynx Little Cookie and Bard Parker. Bard Parker was an actual son of Three Bars!

Jule Bars son, Jumpy Jule, continued carrying Fay to the winners circle after his sire died.

Mae Deschamps Poloson

Dan Poloson

(L-R) Bill Haynes, Fay, Bert Poloson, Grace Poloson, Fred Poloson, Ann Poloson and Dan Poloson

Marie Poloson

Marylin Barnes, Jake Johnson, Fay Poloson

Fay Poloson Glacier Park 1948

Fay Poloson and Niece, Grace, 1941

Fay Poloson & Niece Alice 1944

Bill Haynes & Fay Poloson Wedding Day December 15, 1951

Fay on Jule Bar at their Big Bend Ranch

Haynes Ranch Prize Angus

Bill roping on Jule Bar Big Bend Ranch

Fay barrel racing on Jule Bar

SINGULAR HORSEWOMAN FAY HAYNES
BY HELEN CLARK

How many modern women would drive 900 miles alone with a horse trailer and stallion behind a truck to run three barrels for three days? Five foot seven inch tall 135 pound dark-haired hazel-eyed Fay Haynes of Hot Springs would and does. Fay recently returned from the annual Spring Horse Show at Calgary where she split first and second in the final run, split second and third in the second go-round and placed third in the average. She has ridden her stallion, Jule Bar, to many championships. Spokane witnessed the pair winning a championship at its recent Inland Empire Quarter Horse Show where Fay and Jule Bar won the barrel racing and placed third in pole bending; Jule Bar was declared Champion Get of Sire and his daughter, Jules Jewel, won reserve Senior Champion Mare. Jule Bars famous daughter Jules Lady Bar, a triple A winner, won the Montana Charlie Russell Futurity of 1964.