GEC GAW

[Pt-Luso]

Thank you very much, I'm In!!

 

[Pinemoon]

Thanks... But 30+ years and a whole lot of miles and I don't look so good any more.

Yeah, that happens to a lot of us.
An old friend used to tell me, "I may be too old to cut the mustard, but I can still lick the knife."
(I wrote that mostly for the knife content )

 

[Lansky1]

wow - what a tremendously generous offer ... I'm in. Here's my favorite cowboy of all time --->

For those unfamiliar ... search youtube for Chris Ledoux, song is called "Stampede" ... will make you think what a real life stampede at night would be like for the cowboys of yesteryear who worked the plains. Here's the link:

 

[JohnDF]

For all my fellow Chris LeDoux fans...

 

[black mamba]

I can't believe no one has shown Quigley yet!

 

[mitch4ging]

Great giveaway and generous offer!

Oh ya... "I'm in"
How about a picture of me and my mom, taken quite a few years ago.
I worked ranches, I was an outfitter, I competed in rodeo, and I built custom saddles... until I had kids and had to make money.


Turn and Burn

Lookin' good, John!

I'm in please!
My grandfather and his chuck wagon he built:

My dad in his early 70's, heading:

Dad, me and little brother headed out on the Gila River on a fishing trip:

 

[abcdef]

In, thanks.

Old timey gender confusion.

 

[JohnDF]

heading:

And cursing his heeler...

 

[mitch4ging]

And cursing his heeler...

His cousin, looked like he pulled up dirt!

 

[tmd_87]

I'm in!

My favorite western movie; The Searchers. We named my son after John Wayne's character!

 

[Headwinds]

Great GAW, but I’m not in. I guess I don’t have the true cowboy spirit - we lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming for four years fifty years ago and only went to Frontier Days once. (That once was great though - the stars of the Night Show were Roy, Dale, and the Sons of the Pioneers. Can’t beat that!) Please put this picture with afishhunter‘s entry - he deserves one.

 

[Horsewright]

Aw heck I'm in. I too would like the knife to go to Jack Black if I win. Jack is a cowboy at heart!

So I'm a rancher or a cowman, not a cowboy:

A cowboy or a cowboygirl (cowgirl has found some disfavor lately), works for me, a rancher:

My favorite cowboygirl:

My son Logan cowboyin' in some of those lonely places out in the Sagebrush Sea:

Now he runs a ranch about 12 times the size of ours, a few miles away. One of his brandings:

Yeah ya gotta watch those internet definitions. I've never heard the term cowhand except on tv or in a movie, cowpoke neither. A cowpuncher is a distinctly geographical term denoting a cowboy from the Southwest. Implying that a cowboy is an apprentice would probably get ya roped and drug a little in these parts.

Little video clip for ya. My son and daughter roping one at one of our brandings a couple months back. My daughter is just getting back into this. She roped when she was young and then she kinda lost interest and it got rekindled when she watched her mom rope at the fair last year. She's an ER Tech in one of the big hospitals in Bakersfield now, so she comes up when she can, she wants to learn. Ranch roping is different. Much slower and the care of the cattle becomes very important. We try to be as gentle as possible with them. However, even thought they are small they can still kick your head off, so they do have to be controlled. After this, my daughter when watching the video, asked me what she could have done different to be more gentle with the calf. I told her to be swinging so she was ready to rope when she got to the calf's hip, not start swinging then. That way Logan doesn't have to drag the calf as far for her to take her throw. Look close Logan's right rein got disconnected from the bridle bit just before this video started as he necked this calf. Yet he was still able to get the job done and done very well without his steering wheel. Thats a cowboy.......not an apprentice.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8JwUOwpHHu/

 

[Prester John]

I'm in. Thank you for your generosity.

here's a different kinda cowboy that's one of my favorites

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Alright! Staubach! Was thinking of posting him after someone posted a college player.

 

[Prester John]

I'm in!

My favorite western movie; The Searchers. We named my son after John Wayne's character!
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I love the line by Old Moses when they are being attacked by Indians: "For what we are about to receive, we thank thee, O Lord!"

 

[Prester John]

I already entered--this is just extra:

Johnny Cash should be here too.

 

[315]

Bully!!!! I’m in please....

 

[Prester John]

Bully!!!! I’m in please....

 

[mitch4ging]

For all my fellow Chris LeDoux fans...

Along with the C.L. tunes, a little J.J.W.

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

Aw heck I'm in. I too would like the knife to go to Jack Black if I win. Jack is a cowboy at heart!

So I'm a rancher or a cowman, not a cowboy:

A cowboy or a cowboygirl (cowgirl has found some disfavor lately), works for me, a rancher:

My favorite cowboygirl:

My son Logan cowboyin' in some of those lonely places out in the Sagebrush Sea:

Now he runs a ranch about 12 times the size of ours, a few miles away. One of his brandings:

Yeah ya gotta watch those internet definitions. I've never heard the term cowhand except on tv or in a movie, cowpoke neither. A cowpuncher is a distinctly geographical term denoting a cowboy from the Southwest. Implying that a cowboy is an apprentice would probably get ya roped and drug a little in these parts.

Little video clip for ya. My son and daughter roping one at one of our brandings a couple months back. My daughter is just getting back into this. She roped when she was young and then she kinda lost interest and it got rekindled when she watched her mom rope at the fair last year. She's an ER Tech in one of the big hospitals in Bakersfield now, so she comes up when she can, she wants to learn. Ranch roping is different. Much slower and the care of the cattle becomes very important. We try to be as gentle as possible with them. However, even thought they are small they can still kick your head off, so they do have to be controlled. After this, my daughter when watching the video, asked me what she could have done different to be more gentle with the calf. I told her to be swinging so she was ready to rope when she got to the calf's hip, not start swinging then. That way Logan doesn't have to drag the calf as far for her to take her throw. Look close Logan's right rein got disconnected from the bridle bit just before this video started as he necked this calf. Yet he was still able to get the job done and done very well without his steering wheel. Thats a cowboy.......not an apprentice.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8JwUOwpHHu/

Not going to argue with you, especially when it comes to what you want to call yourself.
The definitions I listed are dated. Like 140 - 120 years ago. I have no doubt that the preferred usage has evolved.

Nice pics!

 

[Horsewright]

Not going to argue with you, especially when it comes to what you want to call yourself.
The definitions I listed are dated. Like 140 - 120 years ago. I have no doubt that the preferred usage has evolved.

Nice pics!

Ya bet, Thanks! No arguing intended either on my part. Words evolve all the time especially in this cowboy deal. For instance the cowgirl/cowboygirl deal. The idea being that a skilled woman can do all the work of a skilled man and since its cowboy work she's a cowboygirl. I kinda get it. But I hadn't really heard the term till a couple of years ago. I had a book when I was a kid that had those same definitions in it, you found. So say 50-55 years ago. I think problably even more so to the use of terms would be regional influence. Somebody in east Tx might say something or use different terminology than what I would here. Quine sabe?