For "Dudes"
Life on the Ranch May Be Dramatized But It is Not Synthetic Out where the Western plains tilt up on edge and the Rocky Mountains poke snowy; fingers at the sky, is the duke ranch country, writes Gene Lindberg to the New York "Times." The ranchers are real ranchers, where real punchers punch real cattle, but the "dudes" aren't of necessity dandified dilettantes.
A dude ranch dude is simply a nonresident, usually an Easterner on vacation with an urge to see the West and do the things he or she has read about. That West still lives, for it is essential to the vast business of producing America's beefsteak.
Because of the growing popularity, however, of dude ranch vacations, numerous big ranches of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho—many of them in the vicinity of Yellowstone Park—have been transformed into real tourist resorts with facilities for the comfort and entertainment of visitors. The "hands" not only are expert range riders in the old-time sense, they also are competent guides, instructors and walking information bureaux on the lore of the land,
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