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Banter and buddies

by Leota Harriman | Oct 7, 2016 | Feature Stories | 0 |

Joe Bob is an interesting character in his own right. He enjoys his happy hick persona to the...

Moonlighting cowboy-style

by Leota Harriman | Jun 3, 2016 | Feature Stories | 0 |

You don’t have to own yearling cattle that get out on the highway after you have gone to bed at...

Annie’s dancing again

by Leota Harriman | Apr 21, 2016 | Feature Stories | 0 |

She used up all 99 years end-to-end and when she departed for her heavenly home last week, Annie...

Looking for Romeo

by Leota Harriman | Apr 13, 2016 | Feature Stories | 0 |

Romeo was destined for greatness the day he hit the ground as a newborn colt. Perfectly made, his...

Forty miles of dirt road

by Leota Harriman | Jan 26, 2016 | Feature Stories | 0 |

While I’m sure the phrase “forty miles of dirt road” for some will recall its use to describe...

Home cookin’

by Leota Harriman | Jan 15, 2016 | Feature Stories | 0 |

Common cowboy cooking is widely acclaimed to be the very best, spiciest, most original and filling o...

Hard-won victories

by Leota Harriman | Jan 8, 2016 | Feature Stories | 0 |

It didn’t take an act of Congress to give cowgirls their equal opportunity rights in their...

Follow the North star

by Leota Harriman | Jan 4, 2016 | Feature Stories | 0 |

For centuries and long before time was recorded, our ancestors used the stars for their navigation...

Workin’ for peanuts

by Leota Harriman | Dec 24, 2015 | Feature Stories | 0 |

Cowboys are always a never-ending source of funny quips and one-liners delivered with a...

A snapshot in time

by Leota Harriman | Dec 22, 2015 | Feature Stories | 0 |

A Pandora’s box of memories sits on a closet shelf with a label that simply says “Old Photos.” A...

Killjoy holiday gift shopping

by Leota Harriman | Dec 2, 2015 | Feature Stories | 0 |

This is the time of year that I usually create a funny but accurate shopping list for the ranch...

Truth in advertising

by Leota Harriman | Nov 24, 2015 | Feature Stories | 0 |

As the season of gift buying looms ahead, the “buyer beware” wisdom needs to be in flashing lights...

That’s how it was

by Leota Harriman | Nov 15, 2015 | Feature Stories | 0 |

The smell of cedar smoke from the chimney on the house hung low over ranch headquarters and a...

Cowboy neighbors

by Leota Harriman | Nov 7, 2015 | Feature Stories | 0 |

Ranchers need help. They need lots of help. Top of the list of needs is extra cowboys to get the...

Name it and claim it

by Leota Harriman | Nov 2, 2015 | Feature Stories | 0 |

Times are hard. Folks are doing all they can to make a living and pay the light bill. Often, that...

Survival when it wasn’t a game

by Leota Harriman | Nov 1, 2015 | Feature Stories | 0 |

The family stories are still out there, floating around the holiday dinner table or written in...

History in the leaves of gold

by Leota Harriman | Nov 1, 2015 | Feature Stories | 0 |

A single cottonwood tree, gone bright yellow in the season, its leaves and branches framing a deep...

Testing the boundaries of marital bliss

by Leota Harriman | Nov 1, 2015 | Feature Stories | 0 |

The term “marital bliss” used during any moment of working cattle at the ranch is said only with...

All it takes is money

by Leota Harriman | Nov 1, 2015 | Feature Stories | 0 |

The realtor’s invention of the 40-acre ranch brought agriculture holdings to town, so to speak....

The perfection of fall

by Leota Harriman | Nov 1, 2015 | Feature Stories | 0 |

By Julie Carter In my book, fall is about the most perfect of the year’s four seasons. It is the time when all things that make cowboys, rednecks and assorted combinations thereof the very happiest. At the ranch,...

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