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Model Cowboy: AJ Dunn
He’s had stints in Hollywood and on Madison Avenue, but this California hand has his heart in the cowboying trade.
By Davalynn Spencer
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State brand inspector Tina Moody is tough as nails but she coddles animals.
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.
Hall of Fame bullfighter Wick Peth set the bar for rodeo’s guardian angels.
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.
Lynn Anderson, 62, lives in Taos, N.M., where she rides as much as she can when she’s not on the road performing hits like “Rose Garden.” “Horses and music have been my life,” says the Grammy-winner and Country Music and Cowgirl halls of fame nominee. Anderson just released a new CD, titled Cowgirl II.
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.
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Sage advice from a fledgling nation’s leading journalist.
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.
Horace Greeley Reading the New York Tribune in 1872
Charreada has been called the National Sport of Mexico. A form of stylized rodeo or riding exhibition, including roping and equestrian performances, it’s based on the heritage of charros, or gentlemen ranchers.
“Charreada is basically thought of as a living art form,” says photographer Chad Case, who traveled from his home in Boise, Idaho, to spend a week last fall in Guadalajara and attend events and practices and visit the homes of performers.
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Does a chef who has a Ph.D. in biochemistry find himself naturally drawn to Western cuisine? For Robert Del Grande, no other fare compares.
Texas-based chef Del Grande explains his style and shares recipes for hearty cold-weather fare.
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.
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After 70-plus years in the arena, Montie Montana, Jr. still does what he loves.
His first professional performance in the family rodeo act was at age three. Thrown over the neck of his horse at the 1938 Pacific International Exhibition in Portland, his father—world-famous trick and fancy roper Montie Montana—admonished him to remount and, “Get back out there, and do it right!”
Montie Montana, Montie Jr., and Louise Montana in Colorado in 1941. (Photo courtesy Montie Montana, Jr.)
Ryan Wood, a former fullback for the Dallas Cowboys, runs a beef operation near Steamboat Springs, Colo.
Ryan Wood, 37, props a boot on a fence rail at his 652-acre Sweetwood Cattle Company, which borders the Elk River near the historic ranch community of Steamboat Springs, Colo. A former fullback for the Dallas Cowboys and co-founder of apparel giant Under Armour, he’s happy to be off the gridiron and out of the boardroom and raising beef full time.
(Photo/Corey Kopischke)
An interview with Academy Award winner Ernest Borgnine
That voice—a rumbling baritone that seems to echo from the depths of a cement mixer—remains true at 92 years-old. “Just call me Ernie!” booms Academy Award winning actor Ernest Borgnine when we get him on the phone to discuss his long career and why he never worked with The Duke.
(Illustration/Tim Bower)
Crane, Texas honors "All-Time Best Western Author"
After publishing one of the last interviews given by Elmer Kelton in the Dec/Jan 2009 issue of American Cowboy, I realized that Kelton’s former hometown of Crane, Texas, which is my hometown as well, had yet to truly honor the man whom the Western Writers of America branded the “All-Time Best Western Author.” With this in mind, I approached the Crane Historical Society and Elmer Kelto
A billboard was erected along southbound Highway 385 to commemorate Crane, Texas's most famous son, western writer Elmer Kelton.
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Should cattle branding be replaced with other identification technologies, like iris scanning, tattooing, tagging, etc.?
Yes- branding is a cruel, 19th-century anachronism.
16%
No- branding is cost effective, efficient, and humane.
84%
Total votes: 50
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