Growing up in the upper Wanagan Creek basin, my parents and siblings and I sat right between two of the world’s best. Tom and Lorraine Tescher ranched just to our south across the 12-section Twin Butte pasture while his younger brother Jim and wife Loretta to our north across the 40-section Belle Lake common, raising their families. Directly out of high school, Jim hired me to run his ranch the winter of 1965-66 while they boarded their young family out and he and Loretta went south to chase a narrowly-missed world saddle horse bronc title to Marty Wood just two years past.