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I like to break horses. They raised their own horses here at JA and they'd break about forty broncs every spring, 4-year-olds. They was wild. They had run on the range. In the long run that was the best. A 4-year-old is pretty well hardened and hard to hurt, and he's got a good tough heart, too, not like these horses nowadays that are halter broken when they're winter colts not even a year old. I never did hit the horses much while I was breaking 'em, maybe a slap on the neck or somethin' just to let 'em know they done somethin' wrong. A horse is pretty smart. He knows when you're abusing him, and when you're not."<ref name=ranches/></blockquote>​

I like to break horses. They raised their own horses here at JA and they'd break about forty broncs every spring, 4-year-olds. They was wild. They had run on the range. In the long run that was the best. A 4-year-old is pretty well hardened and hard to hurt, and he's got a good tough heart, too, not like these horses nowadays that are halter broken when they're winter colts not even a year old. I never did hit the horses much while I was breaking 'em, maybe a slap on the neck or somethin' just to let 'em know they done somethin' wrong. A horse is pretty smart. He knows when you're abusing him, and when you're not."<ref name=ranches/></blockquote>​

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Back at the JA, Blasingame lived on Campbell Creek in a camp house without electricity during the week and came to Claude in Armstrong County] east of Amarillo and north of the ranch, on weekends to see his wife, the former Eleanor Aloe Morris (1914-1999), the daughter of a neighboring rancher whom he married on November 2, 1933. At the time of her death, Eleanor was living in [[Boise]], [[Idaho]], the city of residence of her son, Thomas White Blasingame (born June 25, 1935),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/thomas-blasingame/e51106072098|title=Thomas Blasingame (White)|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=December 16, 2019}}</ref> and her daughter, Nancy B. Etheridge (born July 1, 1940). The Blasingames had four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.<ref name=PPHM/>  

Back at the JA, Blasingame lived on Campbell Creek in a camp house without electricity during the week and came to Claude in Armstrong County east of Amarillo and north of the ranch, on weekends to see his wife, the former Eleanor Aloe Morris (1914-1999), the daughter of a neighboring rancher whom he married on November 2, 1933. At the time of her death, Eleanor was living in [[Boise]], [[Idaho]], the city of residence of her son, Thomas White Blasingame (born June 25, 1935),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/thomas-blasingame/e51106072098|title=Thomas Blasingame (White)|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=December 16, 2019}}</ref> and her daughter, Nancy B. Etheridge (born July 1, 1940). The Blasingames had four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.<ref name=PPHM/>  

Blasingame was not affiliated with a church but said that he had "read lots of books. Read the [[Bible]] a lot. I believe what the Bible says, but I don't reckon I'm religious. Even if I was, I couldn't go to church because I've got too much work to do."<ref name=ranches/>​

Blasingame was not affiliated with a church but said that he had "read lots of books. Read the [[Bible]] a lot. I believe what the Bible says, but I don't reckon I'm religious. Even if I was, I couldn't go to church because I've got too much work to do."<ref name=ranches/>​