We worked for Charley Chambers this week on the Osage. Even though it rained a lot the day and night before, it stayed dry for us to drag. It was a little chilly and the branding iron heater felt good when I was on the […]
A bedroll controversy
My friend Tim Zibell spent his birthday at cow camp dragging his own calves. That’s about as good as it gets. Here’s a cow camp story about Tim. We were camped with the wagon dragging for the Chambers. One morning when I got to the […]
Memories are made of this
“Isn’t that beautiful?” “Yes, it is,” my brother Keith said. We were looking across the bottoms at Crossroads near my hometown. It was just coming on daylight. The pasture kelly green with mist hanging over the treetops. Black cows grazing with little calves by side. […]