The good news is that the ramrod of this cattle drive is Roxanne Knight—not Tom Dunson. Even better news is that I don’t see Asa Watts anywhere. The bad news is that my thighs are chaffed, my backside raw and I’m dirtier than the Peanuts character Pig Pen on his worst day—and I won’t see a hot shower for an eternity. People actually pay to do this? On VACATION? Heck, yeah. Even before City Slickers, tourists were herding cattle, including those who know the risks and have seen Tom D

April 2004
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Western Books & Movies
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- Hat Tricks
- The Bull and the Backpacker
- Trading Post Profiles
- Before Manifest Destiny
- Appaloosa Trading Company
- Bug-Eyed at the Buckhorn
- Sarah Winnemucca
- Keepin’ Them Dogies Rollin’ . . .
- I Shot the Sheriff (and I Killed a Deputy, Too)
- Gettin’ Along on the Texas/Chisholm Trail
- The Unfinished Line
- Branded by the Land
- Appaloosa Trading Company
- Buffalo Bill’s Irma Hotel
- Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
- Do you know the story about a Texas cattle rancher who killed a rustler and tied him to a steer?
- Who was John B. Allen, for whom Allen Street in Tombstone is named?
- In the film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Bob Dylan played the character Alias. Was he a real person or fictitious? In An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett claims the Kid rode to Fort Bowie with a pal called Alias.
- Which was the best mountain man weapon, the flintlock rifle or the percussion cap?
- Fill Your Hand