Gerald Lee "Jerry" Hamel, left, has a good laugh with Matthew Whyatt on the deck of Hamel's home. Hamel is being inducted into the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center in April. Whyatt is the Cattle Supervisor-North Herd, of the Hamel Valley Ranch in Dixon. (Monte Turner/Mineral Independent)
February 13, 2022
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Humble and hardworking: Cowboy HOF inductee Hamel reflects on ranching, rodeo life
His folks bought the ranch in 1944, he thinks, and moved his brother and himself there from Dixon as they were getting into trouble and running with the wrong crowd.