In Lonesome Dove, as Gus and Call are riding down the
street after a dustup in a local saloon in San Antonio, Gus says, “Call, I
guess they forgot us. The reason is, we didn’t die. If a thousand Comanches had
cornered us in some gully and wiped us out, like the Sioux just done Custer,
they’d write songs about us for ...
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With apologies to Randy Lewis, I don’t care what any ranch
rodeo announcer has ever said over the loudspeaker. Wild cow milking is not a
common, everyday occurrence on the ranch. While every other sanctioned event in
the WRCA has strong roots in ranch work, the idea that cowboys rope and milk
wild range cows regularly ...
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One of the biggest challenges of ranching and cowboying for
a living is the variety of tasks one must be proficient at in order to keep a
ranch going.
The list of necessary skills on a ranch is not short: range management, advanced accounting, market analyzation, doctoring, horse training, nutrition, roping, stock ...
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Have you ever considered just how unique the cowboy tools of the trade are? Take the saddle alone. Only stockmen use this tool and only the American cowboy uses one with a cantle, swells, and a horn. Drill down a bit more and there are myriad styles even within that narrow subset: Wade, Will James, Association, Buster ...
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Here are the official results for the 2020 Green Country Classic Ranch Rodeo! Congratulations and a job well done to everyone who entered up!
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Here are the official results for the 2020 Sandhills Championship Ranch Rodeo! Congratulations and a job well done to everyone who entered up!
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Have you ever noticed that it seems like someone is always taking pictures at a branding? Or just how many photographers are either on assignment or freelancing at the World Championship Ranch Rodeo in Amarillo?
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