As one of 19 full-time brand inspectors in Southern California, it’s Tina Moody’s job to ensure that all cattle sold or transported in the region are properly documented with a state-issued ID tag.

“You don’t sell a car without a pink slip and you don’t buy cattle without a brand inspection,” she says.

Bullfighter Wick Peth is famous for many things, but his courage at the Snake River Stampede in Idaho some 50 years ago impresses even today’s rodeo clowns and bullfighters. Rider Billy Miles was knocked out and hung-up, dangling limply from the back of a bucking, spinning bull.

WHAT WAS IT LIKE GROWING UP IN GRAND FORKS, N.D.?
I was very close to my paternal grandparents. They founded the saddle club in Grand Forks, and my grandmother taught me to ride bareback. She was my inspiration. “If you can ride bareback, you can ride anything,” she would say. My parents say that I could sing before I could talk and ride horseback before I could walk.

Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the New York Tribune, was a favorite target of political cartoonists. He was tall and skinny, and walked the streets of Manhattan wearing wrinkled trousers, a white linen coat, knee-high boots, and a top hat. His pockets overflowed with scraps of notepaper bearing his illegible scrawl. His face was wreathed in an ear-to-ear set of white whiskers.

Winter may be a relative term in Texas, but brisk weather still means a shortage or outright absence of traditional warm weather crops. Fortunately, chef Robert Del Grande of Houston’s Café Annie and The Grove makes it easy to shelve the tomato-cravings until summer.