Twenty Miles of Fence
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3357-8 (ISBN)
Reading the West Book Award Short List
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.
A third-generation Coloradoan, Bob West was an award-winning architect with thirty-five years of design and architectural firm management when he retired in 2015. He is now an accomplished rancher and cowboy, raising Scottish Highland cattle. Janet Fogg is an award-winning author or coauthor of eight books, including Soliloquy and Fogg in the Cockpit: Howard Fogg—Master Railroad Artist, World War II Fighter Pilot.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Bump in the Road
2. The Devil’s Washtub Ranch
3. Two Boys with Sticks
4. Our Search
5. The Best of Times
6. Funeral Music
7. Never Buy a Used Bull
8. A Bouncing Baby Bull
9. Everything’s Fine Except My Pride
10. Big River, Big Trouble
11. Horse Tradin’
12. Money Money
13. The Meeting
14. An Honest-to-God Roundup!
15. The Trout Whisperers
16. The Sale Barn
17. Scours, Scours, Scours
18. The Boys from Boulder
19. Murphy’s Law
20. Independence Day!
21. Bull Rider
22. Feeding Time!
23. A Red-Tailed Hawk
24. Buffalo Dance
25. The Boys from Boulder Return
26. The Calf
27. Zip
28. Midnight Visitor
29. Snake Snapping
30. The Boy Scout Camp
31. Number 72
32. Tepee Rings and Tools of Flint
33. Boobs!
34. Developers
35. Change
36. Road Trip
37. A Blizzard Is Coming
38. More Than Fishing
39. A Good Life
Afterthoughts
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.01.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 16 photographs, 5 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-3357-3 / 1496233573 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-3357-8 / 9781496233578 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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