Author: earlejaygoodman

In 1896, Leo Hayes was born into two large Mormon pioneer families who settled in the Snake River basin of southeastern Idaho. They doted on his blond hair and bright blue eyes. By 1910 he graduated eighth grade. His father couldn’t afford to send him to a boarding school to further his education, so he worked on the sugar beet farm and cattle ranch his father managed. One day his father hired a … a 22 year old cowboy named Sean McKay to ride the fences and check brands until the fall roundup. Leo worked with the cowboy. They became…