“The flames that neared Tuscarora were part of the Dunphy Complex of fires that scorched roughly 163,00 acres.”  Elko Daily Free Press...

I first read “Tintern Abbey'' at Tintern Abbey on April 21, 2012.  I was sitting in the back seat of David’s VW Passat with a cd playing...

In 1938, Dad  graduated from Utah State University with a degree in range management.  The 1930s were a significant time for...

That wasn’t the reason my friend Linda called the other morning. But it was big news. She found her breeding stud dead in the field...

With these stories about family, you expect them to know your dad and when they hear the story, “They laugh and say, ‘That’s just like...

Introduction :  In an issue of the Progressive Rancher , Becky Prunty Lisle has a cautionary tale illustrating the importance for...

“It’s never inappropriate to name a house.” Martha Stewart “Ask Martha” Living, June 2001 The summer of 1993, my mother, sister,...

This time of year, the dead of winter, was chosen for the first Gathering in 1985 because it’s a time when ranch folks can get...

In 1939, Dad took a job in Reno with the University of Nevada Experiment Station as a range assistant.  Just out of college, newly...

The events in our lives happen in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order…the continuous thread of...

“You got to dance with who brung you, swing with who swung you.  Don't be a fickle fool…'cause in the long run you'll have more fun, if...

One evening, a number of summers ago, my friend James told me this story about the man who lived in the small stone building visible from...

I was in the middle of my Monday routine at Eagle Fitness doing leg presses on the machine closest to the entrance.  Jason, my trainer,...

Getting Stuck When I was fifteen, I got a tractor monumentally stuck. The summer of ’57 we moved from Elko to Deeth, the...

Falling Off the Wagon: A Parable You are the driver of a wagon, looking ahead, going down a road. You are also riding in the wagon,...

“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.”                         F. Scott Fitzgerald,   The Crack-Up...

This morning I considered, for about sixty seconds, letting my hair go gray.  Let's call it a Dorian Gray moment.  If I were to go gray,...

Second Runner-Up When I tell about being second runner up to the Wells Rodeo queen the summer of 1958, I  make sure the listener knows...

Tuscarora Sunrise June 21, 2011 The phone rang.  "Go look out your window."  I recognized Linda's voice. "What time is it?" I said,...

​I (Heart) Fernet I asked the bartender, “What’s the name of that aperitif made from artichokes?” My husband and I had walked down past...