At this point, I was genuinely worried, but just to appease him, I looked at the back of the tag so I could tell him it was obviously very blank, as it should be. To my surprise, it wasn't blank. Hastily written in smeared permanent marker were the words, "Will you marry me???"
Read MoreHow a saddle makers years of lies and fraud have finally caught up to him.
Read More“Stories and stories- a storyteller has all kinds of stories going at one time out of which he hopes he can find one story he can tell at one time. ”
— NORMAN MACLEAN- YOUNG MEN AND FIRE
Read MoreJust getting bucked off certainly doesn’t qualify as a wreck. But that buckskin wasn’t done with me. Although he had about 150,000 acres to choose where to run, he chose to make a 100-yard circle and come right back at the stunned cowboy standing there hatless, surrounded by remnants of a Walkman and a Marshall Tucker tape.
If anything should happen...you tell them what happened here...you tell them.”
Read MoreSouthern Oregon’s ZX Ranch operates on over a million acres and is an outfit every cowboy wants to work for at least once.
Read MoreWhen we arrived, we were greeted by a fresh bear claw mark down the logs of the wall that held the door. Talk about welcoming! There was no plumbing and no electricity.
Read MoreAlthough not every cowboy has the good fortune to end his time in the saddle quietly on a day of his choosing, I know none would trade it for a life lived safely behind a desk
Read MoreWhen I rolled up to Binion's in 1975 with no more than a week's riding lessons to prepare me for a summer cowboying, Wade was the first cowboy's hand I shook as I got out of my parent's station wagon. I was twelve and he was 24, fresh out of Vietnam.
Read MoreSteve Jobs once said, “A lot of times people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” Usually it would be frowned upon to associate that quote with scrotums, but on this glorious occasion he could not have been more right.
Read MoreWhen I saw the number one symbol of my culture so beautifully and delicately placed up on the tip top of her head I thought to myself, “that is one bitchin hat,” and then I thought, “I bet she ain’t even a real Cowboy.”
Read MoreI'm not sure if the NYPD realizes it, but when cows get out you can't just load them up and haul them off to find a new home. I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that's called stealing
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