"In 2001, Don and Bo Sosebee picked a spot for their house on a small hill overlooking a pasture where their horses and cattle roamed. They spent the next three years building a one-story cabin there. Don hauled in 6×12 logs from Mount Juliet, Tennessee, for the frame. He lined the interior walls with lumber from his old barn and nailed white pine across the ceiling."
"One he enjoys telling is how he ended up in Franklin County, Arkansas. As it goes, in 1918, his parents climbed into a covered wagon and rode north from West Texas to northwest Arkansas, after three years of drought made it impossible to run cattle. They settled one town over from where Don lives now. Growing up, his family had no electricity or running water, instead using kerosene lamps and suspending food into their well in buckets to keep cold."
Don and Bo Sosebee built a one-story log cabin over three years on a small hill overlooking pastures, using 6×12 logs from Mount Juliet and reclaimed barn lumber and white pine ceilings. Don added a covered porch with a metal roof supported by tree-trunk columns that hosted family photos and his daughter's wedding. At 83 he still dresses in classic cowboy clothes and tells stories in a slow drawl. His parents migrated from West Texas to northwest Arkansas in 1918 after drought. He learned horsemanship and horseshoeing from his father, began buying land at 20, and now owns about 300 acres.
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