Tales of Texas

Flat Out

  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...
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Mas Alla del Rio Bravo

 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....
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Stay Cool John Pool

    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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Young Cowboys

                                                   Young Cowboys       ...
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Cowboy Logic

  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...
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Agile Like An Ox

 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...
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Johnny and The Tornado

   Johnny and the Tornado     by     Paige Baize    We were riding for the Shannon Ranch down at Big Lake. We threw a pretty good sized herd together...
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Guitar's Dell City Ranch

                                      Guitar’s Dell City Ranch                 ...
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