FROMTHENORTHRIMRANCH Leonard Eilers’ hankering for a lasso comes just about as naturally as the desire a six-week-old Hereford calf has for kicking up its heels on a nice spring day. And this affinity of man for rope has brought about a rather interesting sort of evangelism. As a young man Eilers was converted after hearing Billy Sunday in Omaha. Later Eilers drifted West, taking jobs as a cowhand on ranches in Wyoming
and Nevada. When he wasn’t astride a horse he was likely as not out in the corral improving his roping technique. He got to be pretty good with a rope and in the evenings he’d sit around the bunkhouse enter taining the other cowhands with guitar picking and harmonica playing. He kept drifting and on his way through Southern California he picked up a job with Paramount Studios
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