Byron -

I met an elderly man and his wife here in Montana a few years ago that was somewhat like your encounter with that woman on the Madison. He was very unpretentious, and I remember that he wore a plaid flannel shirt with a tattered collar. He invited me to his home to see what he called some old wagons stored in his barn.

However, I soon learned that this wasn't just any old man with old wagons stored in a barn. He had a 29,000 acre ranch that included a lake with very large rainbow trout, and those "old wagons" were used by his grandfather in an historic cattle drive from Texas to Montana.