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Book Discussion: The Cowboy Way
Front-Ranger:
Along with Grizzly Man, Eric? When you get back from Santa Barbara, you are going to have to have a marathon movie watching nite!
Front-Ranger:
As we begin The Cowboy Way, David McCumber is reporting to work at a central Montana ranch where all the heifers have decided to calve at once...
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 04, 2007, 08:48:24 am ---As we begin The Cowboy Way, David McCumber is reporting to work at a central Montana ranch where all the heifers have decided to calve at once...
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:D :laugh: :) ;D
Front-Ranger:
Something this book reminds us of...being a cowboy is all about cows. You might tend to think that tending cows has to do with herding them...being sure they get fat in pasture. But no. What it mostly is about is taking care of pregnant cows, mothers of calves, and young cows. David reports to work when the heifers are calving, and is mostly concerned with seeing that the calves are all born and make it through their first days.
Oregondoggie:
--- Quote from: sfericsf on February 03, 2007, 11:19:03 pm ---I've been reading something similar called The Secret Life of Cowboys.
I have the movie "The Cowboy Way" sitting on my shelf, waiting to be watched..
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Read both myself a while back. The Secret Life of Cowboys, though rugged, has one disconcerting angle: rich daddy back east to step in when the mud gets too icky. Or maybe I'm mis-remembering it. Still, the couple involved do struggle. And the story complements the more traditional turn David McCumber takes as a cowhand. McCumber's work is on one huge ranch complex south of Great Falls. The other involves several locations in Montana. Glad I've read 'em. Very glad to be an armchair rancher when the wind blows.
BTW...if Ennis is yur love, try readin' Chilton Williamson's Roughnecking It, a hard-driving account of oil exploration in the late 70s around Kemmerer, Wyoming, just east of the now-ghost town of Sage. (And, if you want to see a few heartbreaking pictures of Sage, go to www.dustylens.com/ghost_towns.htm --made my tears flow again.)
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