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    Horses, Critters, and Other Tales of a Cowboy's life
    Horses, Critters, and Other Tales of a Cowboy's life
    Horses, Critters, and Other Tales of a Cowboy's life
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    Horses, Critters, and Other Tales of a Cowboy's life

    By BK Gore

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    These are the stories of my life... That the statute of limitations have run out on anyway! A number of short stories detailing a few of my 'finer' moments... and a couple... uh... less than fine.!

    I hope reading them will provide you as much enjoyment as dusting off the memories and putting them down on paper has brought me.

    I Vow! These are all true... with little need for embellishment!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBK Gore
    Release dateJul 17, 2010
    ISBN9781452366555
    Horses, Critters, and Other Tales of a Cowboy's life
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    BK Gore

    He was born back east and fit there like the proverbial square peg in a round hole. Lucky for him his family moved to Arizona when he was but 13. Within months of hitting that desert sand he was horseback under a wide brim black hat, wearing tall boots with jinglin' spurs, wranglin' for a local rancher. He grew up chasin' wild cows through the Arizona chaparral. That square peg had found the home he'd been born to fit. While the best part of his life has been spent cowboying from Arizona to Montana, parts of the last many years have been spent as a soldier, carpet cleaner, hard rock miner, carpenter, night watchman, truck driver, hardware clerk, holster maker, wood cutter, and horse rustler. It's from that wide variety of experience that he's able to draw the raw materials to bring his characters to life. They form the foundation for his stories of honor, sacrifice and "damn the consequences I'm riding this trail my own way" tough hided western stubbornness.

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      Horses, Critters, and Other Tales of a Cowboy's life - BK Gore

      Horses, Critters, and Other Tales of a Cowboy's Life

      by B. K. Gore

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2010 Brian K Gore

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      ~Introduction~

      These are the stories of my life... the ones I can tell anyway... the statute of limitations hasn't run out on the others yet!

      I was a 'city kid', born back in Ohio, and a square peg in a round hole. I never, ever, fit back there. When my mother re-married, I spent every possible minute they'd let me, on my step-grandfathers farm. They'd drag me back to town in the fall, for school, screamin' an' kickin'.

      The farm wasn't quite right either, but it was better than town!

      We moved to Arizon for my step-fathers health when I was somewhere around 14, and there, in that Arizona Desert, I quickly 'found myself'. Life has forced me, on occasion into other 'professions', but in my heart, Cowboyin' has always been the only way of any worth.

      Not all these tales are of Cowboyin', but they are all about a Cowboy.

      I hope you'll enjoy these tales as much as I have enjoyed pulling them out of my memory and writing them down... I swear... with very little artistic license, and 'creative memory', they are all the way it happened!

      1

      ~My First Gather~

      When I was 14, just after landing in Arizona, and a long 40 years and more ago, all I wanted to do was Cowboy. I had no other ambition. As soon as I got out of school I was down to a stable near our house. City kid trapped in the wrong world!

      Rex Morris, the old Cowboy who owned the place, ran a small herd of Herefords down in the Santa Rita Mountains, south of Tucson. Weekends, if I wasn’t working his horses, I was chasing his cows, down in those Arizona Mountains.

      Trouble was, my Momma had no desire to have a Cowboy in the family. At various times I was grounded away from Cowboy Things for various reasons. But trying to keep a kid away from Cowboyin’ is like trying to stop the wind from blowing in Wyoming.

      You can try, but I’d not make much of a bet on the odds of your success.

      This was before the song, but she had the sentiment working already. Mommas, don’t let your babies grow up to be Cowboys!

      About the time I turned 16, Rex had gotten word from Anamax or maybe it was Anaconda Mining (a bit foggy now!), from whom he leased the ground, that he needed to reduce the number of cattle on that land.

      The thing that promised to make this just a little western was the fact that most of those cows had never been worked. Rex had taken 125 head of bred heifers and a few bulls and turned them out on that ground when he landed the lease.

      Those heifers had been maybe 3 months from calving when he turned ‘em out. This was now maybe 2 ½ years later. Some of the Cows there now, were that first seasons calves!

      These were horned Hereford and wilder than the Mule Deer that grazed with them!

      Heck, we didn’t have no idea of even how many head we were looking for! We figured somewhere in excess of 400 at least, and a good number of those cows weren’t cows at all! They were long two year old, horned Hereford Bulls! And Wild Bulls at that!

      So, in the late summer, early fall of, I believe, 1968, we started gathering these wild cows. For me this was a secret gather. If Momma found out, I was gonna be in it deep!

      That country is rough. I mean if you aren’t going straight up you’re going straight down, or you’re not moving!

      We’d swing a rope on some 1500 lb bull crashing down a dry wash only to have him cut around the north side of a mesquite just as we went around the south side. Made for some pretty classy wrecks! Genuine, un-adulterated, double rectified, western!

      Maybe the worst was if you made the mistake of putting your rope on a calf. Those wild old sows didn’t run over to their bawling calves. They’d come running down that rope looking for the fool at the end of it, who had the audacity to slap it on her calf!

      So there you’d be, tryin’ hard to get loose from your end of that rope before she took you loose from your hide!

      It was much better to catch her. The kid would come along where ever you drug

      her!

      Of course there were quite a few who’d come down that rope no matter what! Didn’t matter one little bit to her which of ‘em was on the end of your rope. She was just mad and by God, somebody was gonna’ pay!

      You had to work quick, and get

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