Steve Auth contacted me recently about his Wollywagons and I thought you would enjoy his story about them.
While always having an interest in the old west, which Indiana was once considered the west frontier, anywhere west of the Missouri River to me is the old west these days, and nomadic living in small quarters such as mountain mans cabins, Native American tipi’s, wickiups (a Native American lodge built of sticks and bark) and sheep herder wagons, sheepwagons, (A wagon on wheels with small living quarters, the idea brought to the United States by the Basque people of Northern Spain’s mountain region employed by many a sheep rancher of the west, and I suppose they immigrated here also for a better life as well with all the open range we had at that time.
So after watching the movie The Woolyboys with Peter Fonda and Kriss Kristoferson that takes place on a sheep ranch out west, I said to my wife the only thing wrong with those wagons with living quarters is their a bit small, so I set out and built my first wagon I dubbed the “Woolywagon.”