Donald (Dan) Prickett:  

After graduation Joel Bargabus and I took a road trip which ended in a car crash in Washington State. We limped home, I with broken ribs! Later that summer, the 1970 draft lottery came along, my number was 4 - I joined the Air Force, boot camp in San Antonio TX, Tech school in Denver CO, and then spent the rest of my time at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas! After the Air Force I traveled around the US working odd jobs in the North East and Florida. Traveling back to California I worked for awhile in SoCal with John Bargabus and Lyle Haley. Joel was living in San Diego at the time, he and I left for another road trip to Wyoming. Joel continued on to Kansas for work and I stayed in Wyoming driving a cab in Cheyenne. I also worked in the oil fields around Gillette Wyoming. In January 1974, I got back together with the Bargabus brothers and Lyle in Denver Colorado where we swung hammers. We all lived in a barn there for a short time. Joel and I then moved to Casper Wyoming where we installed Cable TV. Housing was short in Casper and we lived in a tent for a month when first there. We left Casper to go back to San Diego and continued to work in cable TV for a year. Joel and I then moved to Santa Cruz and did overhead cable construction. In the summer of 1975 our house mate, Chester, was killed in a work accident... I decided to go back to school. I moved back to Cheyenne Wyoming to attend a Community College. I also drove a dump truck for a concrete company and worked as a crusher operator at a rock quarry. I married my first wife in Cheyenne in 1977. We moved to Montana where I continued my education at the University of Montana in Missoula. My first wife and I split in 1978 and I was out of school for two years. I sold vacuum cleaners, worked on a steel gang for the Burlington Northern railroad and in the woods for the US Forest Service in Seeley Lake and Plains Montana. I continued to work for...Expand for more