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Last American Cowboy

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Series on Animal Planet. Right now. It will come on every monday night......I think for 4 weeks. But maybe more.

I'm recording...cuz everyone else is watchin somethin else at the moment. LOL
 
i just sat down to post the same thing Lilly. :D i missed the fisrt half hour, i'll have to catch the replay in an hour.

that's the kind of reality TV i like. great show!
 
I caught part of it. I think it's going to be a great show for the public to see. They did a good job of showing why some of the "ugly" things have to be done, and the good that comes from it. Like skinning the dead calf to save the orphan.
 
It seems to be a good show. Peach and I had to chuckle at the clean conditions where the backwards calf was pulled. Our pulling stalls are just dirt, bedded in bullrushes from the swamp. We depend on the convenience of having a stem of hay to poke the calf's nose. This gets them to respond and suck in air. We'd be plumb lost having a clean cement floor with no hay. :wink:
 
I'm just now getting to watch it all. The Stuckey family that
was one of the ranchers featured are old
friends. They are the real deal.

Earl Stucky put that place together. He has a great wife and family.
He used to manage the Flying D ranch at Bozeman, Mt. He left before
Ted Turner bought it. Earl used to drive either a 4 or 6 (and I'm thinkin
it was an eight) horse hitch
at haying and feeding time. I always wanted to get up there and take a picturefor the paper, but never made it. His only son, Cal, was badly injured in a vehicle wreck a couple of years ago. He pulled out onto the highway with a load of hay and was hit by a truck. He spent a lot of time
healing at a hospital in Washington. I'm sure he suffers from
that to this day.

P.S. Just saw the end and that wreck shown must have been the one
Cal was in. He almost lost his life.
 
I watched it and loved it- though being on at 10:00 pm is a bit hard for me ;)
I liked that they didn't sugar coat it and just told it like it is. I look forward to watching it every week, if I can stay awake!
 
I'm assuming that last night was the first eposide?

Looks like the following will be reaired Saturday morning at 11 (Central):

Last American Cowboy , New Beginnings - The ranching families brace for eight months of hard work as Montana's calving season begins.

Gotta love being able to set the DVR from work :wink: but man, the program guide on DirecTV's website is a pain in the butt :roll:

Thanks for this thread as I wouldn't have known about the show as I don't have Animal Planet on my favorites list.
 
If you google Animal planet you can look at the program guide there instead of tryin to use Dish or Direct Tv's. I can never seem to find what I want on either one of them. So I just look up the channel on the computer. Or if I don't know what channel...I will google the name of the show.

It will be repeated several times durin the week for those that missed the first episode.

And....it came on at 9 my time instead of 10 like the guide said. Luckily I found it just in time to set the DVR....set it to record the whole series.
 
Kinda surprised me that it was on Animal Planet. You'd think RFD Could come up with a show like that. Instead of some of the Ummmmm "JUNK" they do have. I usta love that channel. Now I can't hardly stand to watch it.
 
Here's a review of the show that I found, one of the reader comments was from one of the producers of the show:

http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/television/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1259757

Tonight's opener is not for the squeamish.

You see a lot of hands plunging into dark, wet places to yank newborn calves free of their mothers' wombs. One rancher gives mouth-to-mouth to a dying calf.

"If you have a dead calf, it makes you feel like you're letting everyone down," another says.

The ranchers' efforts to care for their pregnant cows are hampered by the blizzardlike conditions that descend on their lands.

"You can't beat the weather. You can only hope to outlast it," one says.

"Last American Cowboy" is another reality series celebrating the working man in the style of "Deadliest Catch" and "Ice Road Truckers," minus the dangers and personality conflicts and hence devoid of practically all drama.

One aside that hints at the buried family dynamics comes when Hughes' father says his son might have the "opportunity" to own the land if he works hard enough. "There's no free lunches on this place," he says. That's a rare moment of insight.

More common is the attitude of one wife, seven months pregnant, who joins her husband stringing up wire fences in the arctic-like conditions. "It's better than being inside," she says.

What's more interesting to this viewer is what isn't discussed: These calves presumably are being raised to go right to the slaughterhouse, but there's no mention of that. There's also no talk about the costs involved in running a ranch nor the profit margin. So it's hard to know whether these people are zealots clinging to a lost way of life or self-made entrepreneurs building their own empires.

But the skies of Montana? They've never looked more glorious. Skip the show and book a vacation.

Here's the comment:

As the executive producer of LAST AMERICAN COWBOY, I would like to defend some of issues raised by Mark Perigard's review. First and foremost, the cattle shown in the series are primarily breed stock and calves that will live on for years, even after they are sold at the end of the season. While all agriculture is eventually harvested, the point of LAST AMERICAN COWBOY is to show how connected the people and the animals are to each other. The animals are looked after and protected by the cowboys. As you'll see in this and later episodes, the cowboys will go to extremes to care for their herds.

As for personality conflicts and drama, please stay tuned. In the first episode, we establish the characters and situation. This is a man and woman vs. Nature (with a capital "N") story. We see the best and worst that Nature has to offer. As the review points out, Nature can be both messy and beautiful. But there are also very human moments of conflict, triumph, tragedy, humor and sadness. In other words, while we don't have any characters nicknamed "The Situation" or turning over tables in restaurants, we do have an honest look at true American heroes, warts and all. I hope the audience will appreciate seeing a gripping story of genuine characters and real drama.

Sincerely,

Robert Curran
Executive Producer
LAST AMERICAN COWBOY
 
Faster horses said:
Reality? A rancher with a helicoptor???? :P

i seen the replay, and that is a purdy nice ranch helicoptor. :?

you don't have a helicoptor for the ranch, FH? i thought everybody did. :wink:
 

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