It's All Trew: Nothing beats experience of Western movie

In January 2009 the Trew Ranch contracted to provide the location for a Western movie to be filmed on the premises. It was a new experience for this old man. In 1980 we began improving a site in a deep canyon here on the ranch for use in hosting an annual family reunion on Labor Day each year. These reunions on the Trew side of the family date back to Depression and Dust Bowl days in the dirty thirties. First came a road down into the canyon, a long tin shade for cooking and meal service. Of course toilets had to be included along with tables and fireplace. A two-story cabin was built later when we acquired the telephone poles from a pipeline right-of-way that changed over to satellite controls for their switching valves. As our sons also shared our respect for history, we built along the lines of an old Western town in the period 1870-1900. Not only was the work fun, the result was satisfying and unusual in appearance but rustic as in "the old West." Amazingly, the thought of using the site as a movie location was never discussed. The years passed, things were added and the improvements aged. When we were approached in December 2008 to use the site for a movie location, the place was weathered and ready...Amarillo Globe