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There's not a lot that can get under a cowboy's hide,
but there are a few things that most of them would just
rather not do. One of them is wranglin' dudes … that's almost
the bottom of the barrel.
Not long ago I ran into an old pardner of mine that I
hadn't seen for over thirty years. I'd heard he'd been killed in
a wreck when the brakes went out on a truck he was drivin'.
The story I'd gotten was that he was haulin some cows off
a lease in the mountains in Wyoming and had wound up
down in the bottom of a canyon underneath a truck load of
cows. Imagine my surprise when I ran into him down by the
stockyards one day. It was even worse than I'd heard. He
ain't dead at all ... he's a dude wrangler over in Jackson
Hole.
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Meadow Muffins . . .
Severance Pay from
the Diamond X
By Ken Overcast
That's one of the main reasons cowboys are dead
against gun control. When you run onto a deal like that how
can you put the poor guy out of his misery?? Naw, I didn't
shoot him, but I dang shore felt sorry for him. He's totally
lost all of his self respect.
Then there's another guy I need to tell you about.
Dave Kilgore is a good ol' boy and has his head in the right
place, at least most of the time, but he wound up fallin' into
another one of those traps that cowboys try to keep their
feet out of. He's gotten himself a job workin' for one of those
rich absentee ranch owners from back East.
Oh, I guess you really can't blame either one of
those guys with the way things are goin'. Real ranch jobs on
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