I copied this off another forum but I thought some of the folk on here might be able to help this young man out. At least watch his back, sometime young fellers have more balls than brains...
On occasion, I have been know to help out total strangers. Fortunately, it has always worked out.
This afternoon, I brought home a cowboy and a very tired horse. His family is from Missouri/Kansas line so he had ridden about 80 miles in the last 3 days.
We were heading into town to pick up a prescription, and off in the distance, heading towards us, we could see a horse and rider. As we passed them, I could see that the horse was just barely putting one foot in front of the other. I made my daughter turn around and park a ways ahead of him and I got out and walked to meet him. He is about 20 and on his way to western Texas to a job.
Any of you folks taken a look at the weather forecast for tonight and the next few days? We are expecting tornado weather before morning and western Ks is looking like snow..... So, of course, I asked him did the horse need a place to rest? He gratefully said yes. I sent my daughter back home to get her dad and the trailer because I really didn't think the horse could make it up the hill. Turns out that he had sold his pack horse about 3 hours earlier. He just couldn't go on and the horse he was riding had been almost dragging him most of the day..... no wonder this nag was tired.
So, we fixed up the horse a stall, fed the young man, and they are both sleeping in my barn. He called his mom to let her know that he was alive.
We are hoping that he will stay until the weather clears and the horse rests but he is an independent young man. I am sure that we are not getting the whole story but I figured if the law was after him, they certainly would have caught up with him by now! I may wake up in the morning with him and the horse gone. At least the horse has a belly full of prairie hay and electrolite water.
So, if any of you live in southern Ks, along Hwy160, in the coming weeks you might want to keep a look out for a young cowboy on a tired bay horse. I am concerned that they may run into trouble before they get to the Medicine Lodge area.
Just in case his folks or some friends are on this list ( I got the impression that they were of the "homestead mindset"), James looks fine and Spuds is just tired. I can't force them to stay but we have offered.
Tana Mc
On occasion, I have been know to help out total strangers. Fortunately, it has always worked out.
This afternoon, I brought home a cowboy and a very tired horse. His family is from Missouri/Kansas line so he had ridden about 80 miles in the last 3 days.
We were heading into town to pick up a prescription, and off in the distance, heading towards us, we could see a horse and rider. As we passed them, I could see that the horse was just barely putting one foot in front of the other. I made my daughter turn around and park a ways ahead of him and I got out and walked to meet him. He is about 20 and on his way to western Texas to a job.
Any of you folks taken a look at the weather forecast for tonight and the next few days? We are expecting tornado weather before morning and western Ks is looking like snow..... So, of course, I asked him did the horse need a place to rest? He gratefully said yes. I sent my daughter back home to get her dad and the trailer because I really didn't think the horse could make it up the hill. Turns out that he had sold his pack horse about 3 hours earlier. He just couldn't go on and the horse he was riding had been almost dragging him most of the day..... no wonder this nag was tired.
So, we fixed up the horse a stall, fed the young man, and they are both sleeping in my barn. He called his mom to let her know that he was alive.
We are hoping that he will stay until the weather clears and the horse rests but he is an independent young man. I am sure that we are not getting the whole story but I figured if the law was after him, they certainly would have caught up with him by now! I may wake up in the morning with him and the horse gone. At least the horse has a belly full of prairie hay and electrolite water.
So, if any of you live in southern Ks, along Hwy160, in the coming weeks you might want to keep a look out for a young cowboy on a tired bay horse. I am concerned that they may run into trouble before they get to the Medicine Lodge area.
Just in case his folks or some friends are on this list ( I got the impression that they were of the "homestead mindset"), James looks fine and Spuds is just tired. I can't force them to stay but we have offered.
Tana Mc
