Thorn Creek is in northern Idaho between Moscow and Genesee. My Granps was born there on the family ranch and grew up there working on the ranch. He was a cow hand driving stock from Thorn Creek to eastern Oregon for sale on a couple of occasions. There was a POST OFFICE there and then later Gpa moved to Genesee and married Anna Kambitch and settled down there to raise a family which included my Mother, Irene Manderfeld.

I was at Genesee Community Days yesterday and then on my way home to Cheney drove the Thorne Creek Road. There are not many thorn bushes and thorn trees on the drainage now a-days. It is all clean farming and few trees remain for wildlife habitat. The area was a much better place for wildlife when my Gpa Manderfeld lived there. I long for the old days of 1890's when wildlife had a place to live.