Twenty Miles of Fence
eBook - ePub

Twenty Miles of Fence

Blueprint of a Cowboy

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Twenty Miles of Fence

Blueprint of a Cowboy

About this book

Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award

Twenty Miles of Fence recounts a decade of transformation when Bob West, a westerner at heart, decided to escape the pretense of his unfulfilling architectural life and to become, quite simply, a cowboy. A cowboy?

That old cliché about biting off more than you can chew fittingly describes the lessons learned when West and his family bought the Devil’s Washtub Ranch in Wyoming. Already owning two horses, housed in a stylish stable on five acres near the yuppie haven of Boulder, Colorado, West soon discovered that ownership of two horses does not equal twenty miles of fence, 3,200 deeded acres, 400 BLM acres, 154 head of black angus, two and a half miles of the North Laramie River—and what would become for him the very best of times. Little did West know how those years would test him, inspire him, and lead him back to his true character.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1. The Bump in the Road
  11. 2. The Devil’s Washtub Ranch
  12. 3. Two Boys with Sticks
  13. 4. Our Search
  14. 5. The Best of Times
  15. 6. Funeral Music
  16. 7. Never Buy a Used Bull
  17. 8. A Bouncing Baby Bull
  18. 9. Everything’s Fine Except My Pride
  19. 10. Big River, Big Trouble
  20. 11. Horse Tradin’
  21. 12. Money Money
  22. 13. The Meeting
  23. 14. An Honest-to-God Roundup!
  24. 15. The Trout Whisperers
  25. 16. The Sale Barn
  26. 17. Scours, Scours, Scours
  27. 18. The Boys from Boulder
  28. 19. Murphy’s Law
  29. 20. Independence Day!
  30. 21. Bull Rider
  31. 22. Feeding Time!
  32. 23. A Red-Tailed Hawk
  33. 24. Buffalo Dance
  34. 25. The Boys from Boulder Return
  35. 26. The Calf
  36. 27. Zip
  37. 28. Midnight Visitor
  38. 29. Snake Snapping
  39. 30. The Boy Scout Camp
  40. 31. Number 72
  41. 32. Tepee Rings and Tools of Flint
  42. 33. Boobs!
  43. 34. Developers
  44. 35. Change
  45. 36. Road Trip
  46. 37. A Blizzard Is Coming
  47. 38. More Than Fishing
  48. 39. A Good Life
  49. Afterthoughts
  50. Bibliography
  51. About the Authors