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| Lamb to serve as grand marshal |
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| Border Days 2008 |
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 | | Free Press/Lorie Palmer | | Ralph Lamb is the 2008 Border Days Grand Marshal. |
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By Lorie Palmer
GRANGEVILLE -- Ralph Jay Lamb has probably spent more time during his 75 year life with cows than he has with people.
"I like it that way," the cattle rancher laughed.
Lamb will serve as the this year's Border Days grand marshal July 3-5.
Lamb was born and raised in Grangeville and ran Angus cattle with his parents in the Winona and Hungry Ridge areas.
"I spent a lot of time on the saddle horn in front of my mom," he recalled.
On a ride at age 5 he saw a calf born and a woman buy it for $5.
"I told my dad I wanted to buy one for $5, too," he said. His father didn't agree until his mother said it was only fair.
"But I don't think I ever paid for that calf," he laughed.
He married his wife, Pat, a nurse, and together they raised two children: son, Dean, and daughter, Jill Marolf. Jill served as Border Days queen in 1987.
Lamb worked as a heavy equipment operator for about a decade and a few other jobs "to support my cattle," he grinned. One of six children, he ran his cattle alone for 38 years in the Hungry Ridge area behind his brothers' run there.
Since the early '80s, he has wintered his cattle on the Salmon River, living at Slate Creek while Pat stays at their Grangeville home.
"That's why we've been married 51 years," she laughed.
Lamb remembers when the Indians used to ride in for the Border Days celebrations, pitching their tents and staying for the duration.
"I knew most of them as my father traded horses with them," he said.
In his spare time, Lamb enjoys making saddles and other leatherwork. He and Pat have five grandchildren.
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