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On july 3d Mary and I are traveling about as far as you can go in south east Nebraska, where I am going to do some cowboy poetry at Brownville's Fourth of JUly celebration, but my heart just isn't in it yet. I made the committment quite awhile back though so will have to do it. Reckon I will get...

A very heartfelt thank you to the Ranchers.net family for the horseshoe cross. It will remain at the head of Josiah's grave. I have long suspected what I now know for sure, you folks are the salt of the earth. Willard

I haven't posted much but have been reading you folks posts and I have discovered you are a caring group. I have a sad report. I received news yesterday that my grandson had been killed in Iraq. Along with the grief I have had intense anger. I have long been convinced that there shouldn't be...

Katrina, Have you been to any wrestling matches lately?

All I am wanting for Christmas is that my two grandsons return safely from Iraq. Neither of them have been there long so it will be awhile, and that the mess over there will soon be settled. I'm not smart enough to know if we should have been in Iraq or not, but it is beginning to look to me...

The fifteenth annual Nebraska Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Old West Days was a complete success, with a just about full house on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, and a sell out for Saturday night, sold out by Friday noon. Folks said this was the best one yet, but then they say that every...

Went to a sale today and bought a One Horse Sleigh, but it could stand to have the shafts replaced. Any of you folks know someone who does that kind of work?

We are having our fire in this part of the country now. Started this afternoon, apparently in the park, north of Valentine, or just north of the park. There is a deep canyon in the vicinity. They evacuated the Assisted living facility and, I think, the hospital as the fire was spreading...

Went out to visit my daughter over the fourth of July weekend, at Green River WY. She, her husband Tom, Tom's father, my 17 year old grandson and I hauled quite a ways north and west up into the Wy mountains. We camped for two nights and rode up to places where you can only get to by horse or...

We had good moisture in April but didn't get a bit in May. This old country was looking tough, then it started raining. according to records, we are ahead on moisture for this month but still behind for the year. I just know the hills came alive again. It's looking good. One thing about it...

We Americans (most of us) are proud and protective of our flag, but there are a lot of people who hate the flag and all it stands for. I wrote this not long after 9/11 Flag...

Thought I'd send along my column. Don't know yet if the paper is going to use it. I tend to get a little politically incorect for them once in awhile. Just some thoughts. FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH Got a few things on my mind this morning that I am going to try to unload, if I can get those...

Senator Hillary Clinton was invited to address a major gathering of the American Indian Nation two weeks ago in upper New York state. She spoke for almost an hour on her future plans for increasing every Native American's present standard of living, should she one day become the first...

We drove back from North Platte last night, rained all the way home, pretty hard at times with a lot of wind. It rained about all night after we got home and the reports this morning are around two inches. I think it covered most of the state and was needed, that and the twenty inches of snow...

There is a calamity that strikes abject terror into the hearts of cattlemen. People who raise cattle are subjected and conditioned to many adversities, from sickness and death in the herd, to drought, low return for cattle sold and high operating costs. But the most sudden and...

Sometimes I still miss calving a little bit, but I don't miss it at all today, and surely wouldn't have missed it last night or the night before. We went out and shoveled the walks, front and back, this morning. The least amount we shoveled was probably close to twenty inches and theres a big...

Boy! You Canadian women are fast on ice.

I was wonderin' if I could get permission to use your daughter's rake photo in my new book of poetry I am working on. It would work real good with the Old Rake poem. I would surely appreciate that.

HILLARY'S FIRST NIGHT AS PRESIDENT in January 2009 Hillary Clinton gets elected President and is spending her first night in the White House. She has waited so long.......... The ghost of George Washington appears, and Hillary says, "How can I best...

The Chadron gathering was a fun deal, well planned and well run, with some good poets. Wasn't many singers but Liz Masterson was an unexpected guest so she capably filled in on a couple open spots. Baxter Black got a little long winded for a fellow who had to drive quite a ways to get home. It...