Tales of Texas

New Mexico Cowboy Rufus Brown 45 Years At Turkey Track Ranch By John Bradshaw   MALJAMAR, N.M. — Rufus Brown never suffered the wanderlust that affects so many cowboys. He...

   Cowboy Good  by   Mike Capron    Slingshot owned a horse that I thought I just had to have. Stinger was his name. He moved like a cat and was...

  Flat Out! By: Austin Brown - #139 In 2002, I hired a guy and his wife to oversee a ranch in the Hill Country. He kinda looked the part...

 Mas Alla del Rio Bravo    by      Paul Patterson FURTHER DOWN the river, in the Judge Roy Bean country, another old-timer found himself in similar precarious circumstances, only worse....

    Stay Cool, John Pool   by    Paul Patterson IT ONCE WAS a common practice—and my still be—among ranchmen on both sides of the Rio Grande to scout the ‘other...

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  Cowboy Logic     Austin Brown II   Wilbur and Ethel were expecting their first grandchild But he was out brandin’ and she was teachin’ while Their grown kids were...

 Agile Like an Ox  by    Paul Patterson John was known far and wide for his scrapes, jackpots, and narrow escapes with horses and cattle, brought on mostly by his...