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Winter reading material?

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Emily-Sara and Buttercup peeling off the cows

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Dezzy wondering when it's her turn

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Ty on Hank-his first branding Hank's that is

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Catching a heel-lots of you on here know these brothers

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Now the front

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doubling them up

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The girls move in

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Iron's a bit too hot

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My buddy from Ottawa was amazed at this operation lol

It went well I'll take some pics of the 4H calves we kept soon my cameraman buggered off to film deer lol.
 
Henry David Thoreau "Walden" is a thought provoking read even though it was written in 1800's.
 
If you look in the Ty Murray book there is a picture of him riding the elk. That is how he got caught. Someone saw the picture. That man sure enought could ride anything with hair on it!
 
I haven't read it yet, but my Dad is reading it now and really likes it. Grampa Frazier from Six Mile Red Angus in Canada wrote about his ranch career. Clayton gave it to me a couple weeks ago. I am looking forword to it when Dad is done.
 
Cowboys, Good Times & Wrecks by Pat Ferguson is a good read about a young cowboy growing up at the Douglas Lake Ranch in the late 50's and early 60's.

I had a few good visits with Pat's father Mike, who was cowboss at D.L. for something like 40 years.
 
What is the name of the book by Ken Fraser-he did more to get people going in purebred angus than anybody I know-really understood what a cow's role on a ranch is.
 
@Gomez: "Walden" is a good one :D

I'd like to suggest one I mentioned somewhere else around here:
"The Cowboy Way - Seasons of a Montana Ranch" by David McCumber, in which the author, a journalist, spends a year working on the Galt ranch and writes about his time there.
Maybe interesting for ranchers for a different point of view of somebody who did the work for the first time in his life. Funny, too. And honest.
 
Ty won the first Wild horse Buck Off today-the average and high marked ride-he got on six head but only the first three counted.

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This was the best bronc he had today.

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Couple jumps later things getting rank

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Not the doctor reccommended way to get off a bucking horse lol.

The top bronc out today was 45 out of 50 a contractor bought some of the better horses.
 
Northern Rancher said:
What is the name of the book by Ken Fraser-he did more to get people going in purebred angus than anybody I know-really understood what a cow's role on a ranch is.
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I can't remember, I will ask Dad and get back to you.
 
hillsdown said:
What about the Merck veterinary manual..
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I was gon'na say that. :wink:

How about any or all of the "Hank the Cowdog" books. John Erickson also published a diary he kept for several years running, I can't rememnber the name of it, though. A good read.

"Coronado's Children" by J. Frank Dobie, stories of lost mines and treasures in the southwest and Texas.
 
Dakota Cowboy by Ike Blasingame is a great book about old cowboy days and very educational about the nature of stock. I read it every winter.
 
Three excellent books by a grand character of a lady are The Golden Lad, Where Coyotes Howl, and Gumbo Lilies by Thelma Martin Anderson. All are set in South Dakota--all are from her life--and they read just as she would talk sitting at your kitchen table! She and her sister reminded me so much of a neighbor lady; I could not stop smiling. Tough ladies! :D
 
I must be doing something wrong I don't have much time to read in the winter.But I don't read much anyhow.
 

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