A Rodeo Bullfighter Takes Us Into the Arena BY BRIAN D’AMBROSIO 07/15/15 Bullfighters set themselves apart from rodeo clowns. They function with an almost primal sense of principle: serve as a human shield for bull riders who've been chucked or thrown from bulls after their eight-second rides. Call the bullfighter's job a perilous game of tag. Call it the most serious … [Read more...]
All Horses and Men, We Pointed Them North
Recollections of a Cowboy (Continued) BY TEDDY BLUE ABBOTT From 1874 to 1877 I was taking care of my father's cattle, and after a while the neighbors began putting cattle with me, paying me a $1.50 a head for 6 months. I herded them in the daytime and penned them at night, and for the first time in my life I could rustle a little cash. In 1875 I made $29 that way, and my … [Read more...]
Maybe You Need a Barn Cat
BY AMADA HERAUF So, you've got yourself a nice little piece of land and maybe a few horses or cattle. You enjoy the rural lifestyle, except for one thing: mice. The little varmints are causing mayhem. Laying traps everywhere is a pain and, as for poisons, well, they don't just destroy the rodents—kids, livestock, and pets can be harmed by them as well. What can you do? The … [Read more...]
How Do You Think—Ever Thought About It?
BY SID ARTHUR As one eats, and eats more, and makes a habit of eating larger meals, even over a short period of time the stomach grows larger. It stretches beyond its former parameters, and the lucky consumer of delectable edibles is then able to contain quite large meals along with sumptuous desserts. Conversely, starve the stomach and it recedes to a lesser capacity. It … [Read more...]
Snakebite! —Now what?
BY WALT TIMMERMAN Of the ten snake species that live in Montana, only the prairie rattlesnake is venomous. Also known as the western rattlesnake, the prairie rattler is found in open, arid country and ponderosa pine savannahs. It often dens on south-facing slopes in areas with rock outcrops. Rattlesnake bites are extremely rare. Of the hundreds of thousands of hunters, … [Read more...]