Everyone loved music. Dances at John Grant's home were famous throughout southwest Montana. During trail drives, Pioneer Cattle Company cowboy Teddy Blue Abbott wrote songs to sooth herds and amuse fellow cowboys. The Kohrs daughters gave piano recitals in the formal parlor. Furniture was often pushed aside in the ranch sitting and dining rooms to allow six sets of couples [48 people] to dance everything from the minuet to the Virginia reel.

The Kohrs and Warrens were avid readers, from poetry and classics to Western fiction and magazines. Card games shortened long Montana winter evenings. Kohrs enjoyed Solo, a German card game. The family played Whist, and later Bridge. Kohrs played cards in Helena at the 'The Montana Club, a 'gentleman's club.' Ladies dressed to 'go calling' on friends in the afternoons. If the friend wasn't home, they left a calling card. Conrad Warren often drove his grandmother, Augusta around Helena to pay calls. The telephone replaced the custom.

Hired hands played poker and other games in the bunkhouse social room, and in town at the local Chinese gambling hall. The home ranch cowboys socialized and drank local beer in nearby Deer Lodge. Few ranches were close enough to town to afford cowboys frequent opportunities to go to town. On the long cattle drive from Texas to eastern Montana, weeks passed with only campfire stories, singing, cards and meals to break the routine of trailing cattle.