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To the Point

"It is totally appropriate to call chicken a fowl meal . . . as long as you spell it correctly. A domestic realignment sounds so much more civilized than divorce. Sometimes it even takes awhile for someone to figure out what I really said."

Cowboy Heroes

"I like bulldogging better than bronc riding. Bronc riding is a question of strength and endurance, but in bulldogging you don't tackle two steers exactly alike. You have to learn the difference in the animals' size, strength, formation of the horns, build of neck and shoulders and a lot of things. Every move has to be perfectly timed to a split second." Of course, the steers she was bulldogging usually weighed around 1,200 pounds ..."

High-Plains Cowboy

"It was the end of April, and spring works were starting. A couple hundred cows with calves would be gathered that morning in a rough section of the ranch, and the calves branded. Another hundred or so would be worked that afternoon. Johnny had been sleeping in his trailer. He stepped out into the still-dark, cool morning air, grabbing his hat as he went through the dressing room door."