RICHEY, M.T. (KFYR) - Hard work and perseverance define ranch life, but one man in eastern Montana takes it to another level. At 90, he’s still living independently on the ranch he built from the ground up. Even more remarkable? He’s a type 1 diabetic.

Bob Delp still begins each day just like he did decades ago, waking up on his ranch near Richey, Montana.

“I always thought if I could ever get a ranch and run a hundred cows, that’s what I wanted to do from the time I was a kid,” said Delp.

He made that dream real, the hard way; after coming home from the army, he taught school, hayed for seven cents a bale and saved every cent he could.

“I worked at it real hard because I always felt like it was going to be part of getting me to that ranch that I always wanted,” said Delp.

He did it a

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