Only the horse can cover moonlit miles from ranch to camp site where a pitch-pine fire blazes and all within its glow sit in an enchanted circle, listening to the songs and tales of the West; the yarns that cowboys spin, yarns that the fur-trapping mountain men have spun before them.
The most successful Western dude ranches succeed because they maintain the air of simple realism that is the true charm of Western life When the dude ranch country does go in for pomp and ceremony, it's true Western stuff. Visitors from all over the world yell themselves hoarse over the bulldogging, bronc riding, wild horse racing events at Cheyenne Frontier Days in the Wyoming capital, where America throngs to see rodeo at its best.
Certainly, it's show business—quite as theatrical as the Sioux Indian dances that share honours on the programme. But its utterly real The cow hand who can't stick to the back of a pitching mustang has no place around the corrals of West-em ranches. "Breaking" a new horse is a normal process here, just as breaking in a new automobile is a normal process on the city boule-yards.
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