The title of Cowboy can mean many different things in this day and age. We think of a cowboy as someone who trains horses, or rides in the rodeos, or maybe a cattle rancher who still uses horses to work cattle, but being a cowboy was something different a 100 years ago. When someone talks […]
The Millionaire Who Never Knew It
Sometimes it seems that life deliberately hides things from you until the opportunity has passed you by like a breath of wind that suddenly goes calm before you knew it was really there. Life in the west is no different. A man known simply as Dick was someone who never felt the wind of fortune, even […]
Homesteading the West
When you see old homesteads around the west, they look lonely and forlorn. Most people don’t think much about them, but to me they are monuments to what the life in the west was really like. They are usually very small and very short, crudely built and way too simple to be comfortable. There are […]
The Price of the West
The west was and is a place that brings a sort of longing for the good old days to your heart. People that came and settled the west in the homesteading days, possibly came because of that longing, but paid for it with much suffering and tears. Suffering is not the first thing that comes […]
The Lonely Cabin In the West
When you look back a hundred years or so, what happened then seems like it had to have happened in a different world. The stories that we hear or read about life in the west, feel remote, and somehow don’t seem to be real. They are like shadows in the past that sometimes intrigue us […]