Word: cowboying
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...their way to California to start the proverbial new life, when their car breaks down. The conflict begins when the man decides to hitchhike to the nearest town and leaves his wife and son with the car at an outpost in the middle of the desert. Some very spooky cowboy types hang out at the outpost. The story is about betrayal, but it is almost Gothic in the way it renders the stillness of the blank desert and the pink-cheeked yokels grotesque and terrifying...
...Hunt is a leather-faced cowboy who says he'd rather have a horse than a human as a friend. Every day he stakes his life and livelihood on that idea. He refuses to call what he does "breaking" a horse, claiming there is no word that adequately describes the relationship. His smile is a hard beam that penetrates the dustiest corral. Raised on a farm in the days of horsepower, Ray tells me he has picked prunes, fixed fence, driven heavy machinery and cowboyed -- anything to make a living -- but it was always the horse that remained dear...
...first morning of the clinic, held at the Snake River Ranch at the base of the Teton Range, a small crowd gathers to watch the colt class. One tall, black-haired cowboy mumbles that he thinks it's all bullshit. Ray's eyes sparkle. "People come to me and say, 'I'm having trouble with my horse,' and the horse is saying, 'I'm having trouble with this person,' and I believe the horse every time...
From a wide alleyway where six colts and a mule have withstood an early downpour, Jay, a lanky cowboy from northern Wyoming, turns a wild-eyed sorrel horse into the corral where Ray is waiting on his gray mare. The colt's body is rigid, and he lets out the kind of snorts that make a cowboy take a deep seat on frosty mornings. "A horse has a mind," Rays says, watching the colt. "He gets scared and bold, sure and unsure, sick and well. He says, 'Maybe. I don't know. All right . . .' and too often...
...cowboy who owns the sorrel, steps on first. The horse strikes at him, but Jay swings on smoothly as the colt jumps sideways, exhales loudly and finally stands. Nothing to it. For the first time Jay smiles. When he relaxes, the colt does the same...