The Secret Life of Cowboys (eBook, ePUB)
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Following a typical Midwestern suburban upbringing and the standard college experience, Tom Groneberg is lured by curiosity to try a different way of life. Inspired partly by his desire for wide open space and also by his ambition to get his MFA in writing, Tom moves with his girlfriend, whom he later marries, to Montana. His tolerance for the cooped up classroom quickly fades, but his cowboy nature emerges full force, resulting in over a decade of struggles and triumphs in a land he comes to understand and love. As the title suggests, the book lets us in on a few secrets. We learn that ranche...
Following a typical Midwestern suburban upbringing and the standard college experience, Tom Groneberg is lured by curiosity to try a different way of life. Inspired partly by his desire for wide open space and also by his ambition to get his MFA in writing, Tom moves with his girlfriend, whom he later marries, to Montana. His tolerance for the cooped up classroom quickly fades, but his cowboy nature emerges full force, resulting in over a decade of struggles and triumphs in a land he comes to understand and love. As the title suggests, the book lets us in on a few secrets. We learn that ranches usually resemble trailer parks more than Bonanza-esque estates; that today's cowboy is often a family man who occasionally drives a minivan; and that the labor is tougher than we can probably even imagine. We visit the cowboy bar, the rodeo, a hunting camp, the ""neighbors"" miles away, and when Tom has a bout with depression, the local therapist. We're introduced to a number of characters. Some defy stereotypes, others embrace them, and many, of course, do both, but each of them teaches the Gronebergs a good bit about living out west. Very few ranching skills are intuitive. Tom must learn extremely tough lessons throughout the years, especially when he and his wife try to buy and manage their own ranch. The ranch experience ends in economic failure and an inevitable auction, but Tom and his family find some redemption in it anyway, and they remain undaunted in their pursuit of a life on the range. THE SECRET LIFE OF COWBOYS provides us with a complete and unflinching look at contemporary American cowboy culture.
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