Butter Me Up

"Mother said to father, while on the train and looking at the herds of cattle through the window: ‘We can be sure of one item of food and that is milk.’” Yet when 12-year-old James Mathis migrated with his family from Arkansas to Grandpa John’s cattle ranch in Texas in 1885, his mother “...couldn’t find one drop of milk or a speck of butter anywhere about the ranch nor a cow that was being milked.” “She asked grandfather about the milk matter. He told her that it was disrespe