The Black Hills Stock Show (BHSS) is up and running! I always look forward to all the events going on in Rapid City, besides all the folks I get to see and visit with while there. It sure breaks up the winter season for all of us. more... |
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Cowboy poetry is one of my efforts. I do my best but sometimes when I am in the corn belt or entertaining the Western Pistachio Growers, I'm asked why I don't do more farmer poetry? I try to explain to them that cowboy poetry is about wrecks: horse...
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Like the weather, everyone complains about how slanderous politics have become but no one ever does anything about it.
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Did you read where scientists have been successful in implanting human genes into cows? This is no joke. It seems that scientists wanted to make cow's milk more like human milk so that soccer moms will never have to be inconvenienced to nurse their...
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Just last week I wrote in this column about the good hands that won at the Indian National Finals Rodeo (INFR) in Las Vegas in November. Little did any of us know that one of those young people would not be with us at the writing of my column this week.
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Long-time readers of this weekly effort know that, like most journalists, I do math as well as I do elephant tracking and space shuttle driving.
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Lassen County California is bigger than Rhode Island, but what isn't? And has less people than the average funeral in New Orleans! It is famous for its volcano and western tradition. Joy and her husband run cows, guide hunters and rent cabins at their...
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Our Congress has a very taxing problem: they are intaxicated on your money. They are addicted to taxes in every form, but mostly your W2 form. With out-of-control spending, and debt into the trillions, you just know they're going to need to tax you even...
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A friend told me recently that a family member is posting installments from a homestead-era diary on Facebook. Descendants from around the world are sharing in the adventure as the entries are revealed bit by bit. My friend expressed the awe she feels at...
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It's a normal cold and windy January day here, so I hope all the people that were concerned about it being too warm are feeling better. Hopefully the nicer weather returns in a few days. I've still got a corral project to finish.
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I had the pleasure of spending the weekend with a roundup of cowboy friends. (This means that you fed the horses and caked the cows before breakfast). Tales were told, goats were cooked, music was played and it went on for days! But the background in my...
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Most folks are familiar with the Good Old Boy Network, a loose collection of family and friends that can be tapped for personal or business needs.
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Every Christmas I look forward to getting a traditional card from a ranch family in which every member is mounted on a good looking Quarter Horse with a silver bit in its mouth. So you can imagine my dismay when their 2011 Christmas card arrived and they...
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This great weather we've been having is making some people nervous. They are just sure that it's going to get even before winter is over. Well, I hope not. I'm still hoping for a nice spring and abundant rain to make up the moisture we haven't received...
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I looked at my schedule for the first week in December: Jamestown, ND; Denver, CO; Laramie, WY; and Springfield, OH. I asked my secretary why she couldn't book me in Victoria, TX or San Diego, CA in the winter? She reminded me she had booked me in Miami...
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It's hard to see Iowa State University's key role in a plan by one of its top officials to develop an 800,000-acre farm in Tanzania as anything other than institutional polish to a massive African land deal for politically-connected financial...
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