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      In Loving Memory    

Cuddled  in  our Hearts...Forever in our Souls... Never to be Forgotten!

                                                        


                Richard DeZeng Pierce III

  

 

His Hi Country Sign and Design

 

        "Rich"  

                                                                   

           My  Brother                             

     

 

Katmandu, Nepal (AP)"

     " Richard Pierce of Missoula, Montana and Richard Wilson of Chico, California climbed Mount Pumori, a 23,488-foot peak in the Himalayans across from Mt. Everest. Together they reached the summit on December 13, 1984, making it the First Winter Conquest of the mountain by a U.S. Expedition."

     They set the First American Record  and  were never seen again. He was 27 yrs old.

We found out he was missing  in January 1985 and is still missing to this date.

 

 


Six Months later...

Chanc was always Smiling, Loved farm critters, a Special Personality......And a Great Sense of Humor! 
       

  

   

 

 

He was (9) when taken by Angels!


Mush-Qua-Tahs's      (Good Spirits Protect)    

 

  

(Yoda) Yoda Jedi Master of Mush-Qua Tahs. & (Mani) Mush-Qua-Tahs Mani. Persian Brothers. 

(Yoda)  02-1999 - 06 -2011.Silver Smoke Disappeared one day in Weatherford  TX. Have never found him! He was wise with other dogs/predators so have no idea. Abbey loved to herd him. (Mani)   07-1999 - 07-2011.  Himalayan  Disappeared a month after Yoda  in Weatherford TX. Have never found him! He was also very wise against people & predators.  Mani was  slept on my pillow at nights for 12 yrs. Miss him. Abbey misses this cat too for they were pals


   

 

Megabyte of Mush Qua Tahs (Megi) 

!994-2006   We found her while on a hunting  trip for elk. She as in a yard in Deerlodge and se boight her but suspect she was from out breeding so never bred  her. She as also a true blue chow, Peaceful in Old the Growth Forests of Bigfork, Montana.   Lil' Dynamite and the bull dozer with her nose. She came to say good-bye to us one afternoon and let left hours later. She was so special and charming and long lived.


   

 

Chou Blu' of Mush Qua Tahs (Blu or Boo Boo)

1987-2001  Blue was a baby and so private that from this tender age if someone walked in the house he got up and went in the bed room.  Peaceful in  the Prairies of  Midwest, Wyoming. He was so mellow, loving and softest fur ever and a true blue chow, the rarest breed color. It was hard to say good-bye. He was a charmer and lived a long exciting life.


  

 

Pah'Ka of Mush Qua Tahs (Pahka)

1985-1997  Our first Chow ever and the matriarch of the family. She is Peaceful in Opportunity, Montana. Watchful of the kids at all times and strangers! I got Pah'ka  to help Tim recover from his cancer. She was our first Chow, such a lady and joy. It was hard to say good-bye. She was our first and the most precious and long lived.


Vulcan, 1/2/Arab

1980-1997  Peaceful in  Opportunity. MT.  My Half Arab who had the curiosity of a cat. He thought he was a big dog and loved to take off on his own and go to the horse pasture to visit his friends. He tried to tackle a porcupine and got a nose full of needles Amd He loved the baby moose that stayed with us for two weeks.


  

Data  

1993.  Peaceful in Opportunity. Montana. I found him as a kitten about 6 weeks old in our barn and he was wild. Tamed him in three days and found out he was a lynx mix. I love him so much and he slept with everyone in the house. He had a short life. Lived for one year before  a car  took him! 


  

 

Howler of Mush Qua Tahs (Howler)

1982-1994.  Howler could howl I love you better than any husky and he is recorded saying that to Me while in the Navy. He was so loving and a gentle giant and we had his since birth. He is Peaceful in the Wild Mountains of American Creek, Montana. He lived the wild life and well past the normal age of Malamutes for the all  love he received.


  

Montana Bob the black cat  (Bob)

1984-2001. Peaceful in Midwest, Wyoming with Blu.  "Bob" as we called him was given to me by my Mom when he was just 5 weeks old. We took him from Montana to Virginia and on the way... took him for walks. People thought he was a monkey. He was the best traveling cat and always came when called for he grew up with Pah'ka and Blu.

Kiowa was bought to give Howler a friend while in Virginia and she disappeared at 4 yrs old.


  

 

Frosty's Apache Teardrop of Mush Qua Tahs (Frosty) 

1980-1983. We got Frosty as 10 week old pup. He was so beautiful and had a color- breeders would die for. He loved the farm and loved to chase the piglets- Billy Joe and Bobby Sue. He used to drag a tractor tire after the cows which is why he was on the tractor tire. He was a comedian and loved the kids. He  Vanished in 1983 in Everman, Texas @ Niki. 


  

 

Nekeewah of Medicine Lodge (Niki)

1979-1983  I got "Niki" at 6 weeks  from my Mom when I became a single Parent. She traveled from Montana to Texas where she lived on the farm with the kids and critters. We had 10 pups sold when she was pregnant and she only had one. That was Howler who is just born in these pictures. Niki Vanished in 1983 in Everman, Texas along with Frosty and both were never seen again.


  

Sunceria (Sunni).

1982-1983.  Peaceful in Everman, Texas. Sunni from a Horse Wrangler in Texas. She was a filly out of 3 Bars Racing Quarter Horse. Had she been male they would have kept her. She died of Tenuous while I was in Boot camp. Too young!                    

T--Bone Our Brahma Bull  went to live with a herd that would take care of him & full of cows. Such a baby too. We got him at 4 weeks and bottle feed him. He was beautiful.


  

 

Loki of Mush-Qua Tahs (Loki)

1985. I waited a year for her to be born as she was of "A Once in a lifetime breeding". Loki was so friendly, beautiful and she loved Howler. We took a vacation and she was abducted out to the trailer she shared with Howler when we stopped for gas in Arkansas. She was stolen & Howler couldn't help her. It turned out to be the worst year of my life 1985. 


 

 

 

Shenandoah's Leprechaun (Shannon)

1975-1979. My  gray 1/2 Arab of special breeding.  A Raffles Gene. I delivered him when Star (our horse)  was having trouble giving birth. He was born special and I loved him. Unfortunately my Ex hated him for Shannon did not like him. I was forced to sell  at 4yrs old by  my EX and then I left him.


  Trooper  &  Lady   

Trooper was a pup of Scotty's (half collie) & Joe (Malamute) the Family dogs. Lady was out of one of the Malamute dogs Mom raised. I got both when I left home in 1975  and they both disappeared in 1979. Plentywood, Montana. They were so great together and I missed them terribly. Trooper had great character & love  and Lady was charming and faithful.



 

"Ebb" 

                        I used to wish that dreams came true,                                      
                                     but now know, they don't.

                                                    I use to wish that I could fly,
                                                            but now know, I need a plane.

                                                                   I used to wish in Unicorns,
                                                                            but now know, it's my imagination.

                                                                                I use to wish that I was tall,
                                                                                            but know that I'm small.

                                                                    I used to wish that I could disappear,
                                                                                but now know, to face my fear.

                                                 I used to wish there was no pain,
                                                            but now know, to grieve.

                            I used to wish there was no death,
                                    but know that life still goes on.

                                    I used to be a wishful tyke,
                                            Now, I am an adult.

                                                    I used to wish.    

                                                         Wish,
                                                         ?

       

Poem Written by Ike* Foust 

     "I wrote this Poem in the shape of a Question Mark for ONE reason only. When yu realize "Why" you've lost your innocence... it floats away!  I wrote it while in Mr. Henry Gonshack's  class one day at Montana Tech while thinking of my Missing Brother and Chanc became Sadly Enlighten."


                 

Rich's climbing gear is on my wall. As long as someone stays in your heart they will never be forgotten.


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