Who is Pony Ault?

[Alsetenash]

FU, 2, 76

In a copulative way, that's funny.

https://youtu.be/Ktaedd04TCg

[Hear me all]

I can't find very much about her, but she never owned Florencia/Graciella. She did, however, have a Robert Henri painting at one time -- "Young Buck of the Tesuque Pueblo."

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2008/american-paintings-drawings-sculpture-n08495/lot.40.html

But while trying to look her up, I found this strange thing:

https://sfai.org/about/celebrating-35-years/

The link on her name points to dalneitzel.com. When did Dal ever have anything about Pony Ault on his website, other than that error-riddled Graciella scrapbook? Surely the Santa Fe Art Institute isn't pointing to that "thang".

Google yields plenty of information.

[Gunrunner]

This story was in OUAW also. There it was worded a little differently. She was his most important client from New Mexico. Not sure if or why this would matter. I guess she could be his most important from New Mexico, and his only important client from Santa Fe. A little hurtful to any previous clients from Santa Fe that weren't Pony. "Oh, he seemed like he really liked me when he was selling me that painting in 1980, but I guess I was just chopped liver."

Anyway, the thing I noticed in the book, was that it was like Forrest was trying to say "Pony" as many times as possible towards the end of the story.

Maybe to access the treasure location, we'll need a small horse?

Been thinking about this and wondering if there is a connection to "The Quahada Chief on a Black Pony" to be found. I have also wondered if that black pony somehow connected to the Black Ponies of Binh Thuy:
"The tragic, the comic, the terrifying, the poignant are all part of the story of the Black Pony pilots who distinguished themselves in the Mekong Delta between 1969 and 1972. Flying their Broncos "down and dirty, low and slow," they killed more enemies and saved more allies with close-air support during the three years they saw action than all the other naval squadrons combined."

https://blackpony.org/

[Gunrunner]

F said Pony was the most important client because he wanted searchers who had any thinking skills to realize that a horseshoe marked the spot where the treasure was hidden. The man couldn't have possibly provided anymore horseshoe hints than he did. What a Saint! Your inability to recognize them was because you wanted everything about the hunt to be difficult. You didn't want the treasure, just to use those shoes of yours chasing, hoping you'd always have an adventure to explore.

FU, 2, 76

[Hear me all]

F said Pony was the most important client because he wanted searchers who had any thinking skills to realize that a horseshoe marked the spot where the treasure was hidden. The man couldn't have possibly provided anymore horseshoe hints than he did. What a Saint! Your inability to recognize them was because you wanted everything about the hunt to be difficult. You didn't want the treasure, just to use those shoes of yours chasing, hoping you'd always have an adventure to explore.

[Gunrunner]

Takes quite a lot of time and work to set up something of that magnitude. I imagine it was in the works far before she died.

And who knows? She may have left an endowment to get the ball rolling. Sounds like she was in a position to do that if she wanted.

[wwwamericana]

But if the SFAI was founded in 1985 how could Joan Ault have been a cofounder when she died in december 1984?

Takes quite a lot of time and work to set up something of that magnitude. I imagine it was in the works far before she died.

[Gunrunner]

Or take a bearing of 327 (=270+57) degrees from North, and look far enough along this line, starting in Sante Fe.
Motivation: see https://www.hintofriches.com/forum/t...390#post427390

I'm afraid you don't appreciate the significance of this "coincidence," Jan. Within 1 degree of "North By Northwest" from Santa Fe hits my location. The same line also passes right over the buffalo's head at Nine Mile Hole. Folks have been seeing this buffalo at Nine Mile Hole as a match for the illustration in "Buffalo Cowboys" for a long time, apparently. But it looks to me like when you fly over the Madison you still have a ways to go -- all the way to northwestern Montana. The buffalo is just a marker along the way.

https://www.hintofriches.com/forum/the-hint-of-riches/333275-9-mile-hole-solve-from-4-years-ago?p=333295#post333295

[jan_v60]

Y'all want to see another coincidence? If you zoom in on where that line crosses Yellowstone, you'll see it crosses the Madison River at that buffalo's head at Nine Mile Hole. (Keep in mind that I set the point at my location completely independently of its distance or direction from Santa Fe or Yellowstone. It is what it is.)

Or take a bearing of 327 (=270+57) degrees from North, and look far enough along this line, starting in Sante Fe.
Motivation: see https://www.hintofriches.com/forum/t...390#post427390

[Gunrunner]

You may be on to something here! The bearing from Santa Fe to my location is 338.38 degrees, according to Google Earth. Less than a degree off.

Y'all want to see another coincidence? If you zoom in on where that line crosses Yellowstone, you'll see it crosses the Madison River at that buffalo's head at Nine Mile Hole. (Keep in mind that I set the point at my location completely independently of its distance or direction from Santa Fe or Yellowstone. It is what it is.)

[starwheel]

Gonna be difficult to get that jar open cuz he sealed it so securely - didn't want anything to leak in or out....

wwwamericana The family don't want anything to leak out even if you manage to get it open, if you get my drift.

[Star Shadow]

Wrong hwy., but close.
"Even so, my father always drove about 50 miles out of our way,..." (TTOTC, p.45) And Forrest had an issue using commas. Try this - "Even so, my father drove out (hwy.) 50, miles out of the way..."
about = out (see thesaurus) IMO
AH

Mountain man logic?

[jan_v60]

You have to connect the dots. Burch Ault's obit names her as Joan Mitchell Ault, dying in 1984, and lists their children, one of whom is Marney. And Marney's obit says she is the daughter of Burch and Pony. So obviously Pony was Joan's nickname, the name by which everyone knew her. I'm satisfied wwwamericana found the right one.

But if the SFAI was founded in 1985 how could Joan Ault have been a cofounder when she died in december 1984?

[wwwamericana]

Anonymous Hunter You hit the nail on the head there. The road number that Florence is on is number 67, this number is concealed in Stanza 1, in Lines 2 and 3, as these two have syllable counts of 6 and 7. Florence is in Fremont County, named after John Charles Fremont who taunted Forrest with the Olive Jar, and Forrest's autobiography is in an Olive Jar.

Gonna be difficult to get that jar open cuz he sealed it so securely - didn't want anything to leak in or out....

[starwheel]

Try Florence, Colorado. UP you see it
Just another hint from Forrest.
AH

Anonymous Hunter You hit the nail on the head there. The road number that Florence is on is number 67, this number is concealed in Stanza 1, in Lines 2 and 3, as these two have syllable counts of 6 and 7. Florence is in Fremont County, named after John Charles Fremont who taunted Forrest with the Olive Jar, and Forrest's autobiography is in an Olive Jar.