I look back with fondness on Christmas, 1934, for a couple reasons. One, Santa gave me a real steam engine as a present that year. And, two, he gave Paul Roberts, the local bully, somethin' none of us kids expected he'd ever get. MORE>>
Three ten-cent beers was Hank's financial and biological limit, but he ordered a fourth anyway.
It was now dark and had been sleeting heavily for over two hours, and Hank had left his fleece-lined slicker back at the Lazy 6 bunkhouse, four miles away.
Thanks to the terrible storm, the saloon was empty of other customers even though it was Christmas Eve. MORE>>
Christmas Eve, snow flakes fell like delicate white blossoms and I watched as they spiraled to the ground from my hospital window. The lights from Japanese lanterns in the shops along the square dripped their colors onto the wet cobbled streets as kimono clad women shopped for their families evening dinner. MORE>>
There's a little bit of Cowboy Christmas in the air all year at the BAR-D.
The big celebration comes each December, when we celebrate each day by posting a new holiday poem or story at CowboyPoetry.com, right through Christmas. It's truly a time of sharing, full of surprises for us and for our visitors. But hardly a day goes by during the year that Christmas doesn't come to mind. MORE>>
Long before dawn, Buck awakened with a slight hangover, an all too familiar feeling. As he rolled over and lit the lamp, he saw the little oilskin wrapped package, a gift that his mother had given him several years before. The sight of it made him think of her and the way she had always hummed her favorite song. These thoughts gave him a strange feeling and an urge to return home that he seldom experienced. MORE>>
The winter of 1952 had set in hard in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. By Christmas Week it was already one of the coldest years on record and fixin' to get worse. Our ranch was snowed in tight, Daddy had been laid up for over ten days with broken ribs from a wreck with a green broke colt, and was unable to do chores while our cowboys were at line camp feeding cattle until Christmas Eve. MORE>>
