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Cutting Competitions: A Century Long Texas Tradition
Unlike many rodeo events, cutting, which entails separating a cow from the heard, is actually practiced every day on ranches.
How to Make it as a Modern-Day Cowboy
"With everything that changes and everything that goes on in the world, I still throw a chunk of leather on a bronc and have to go ride it."
Meet Larry Pressler, the Most Interesting Candidate of 2014
Larry Pressler, the former South Dakota Republican Senator who once turned down an ABSCAM bribe, is looking for a comeback, one cowboy poetry reading at a time.
I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'The Gunfighter'
The wonderful Western-themed short film The Gunfighter by Eric Kissack explores the issues that come with an all-knowing narrator who is voiced by Nick Offerman.
Witnessing How Animals Were Treated at the Calgary Stampede Bummed Me Out
We sent a reporter to cover the Calgary Stampede, and the way the animals were treated left a bad taste in his mouth.
Riding Along with the Calgary Police From 4 PM to 4 AM During the Stampede
We rode along with the Calgary police from 4 PM to 4 AM on a Saturday night during the Calgary Stampede.
Today In Social Sports Stupidity
As expected, we've been gifted with more captivating stuff from Twitter.
Pat Kennedy Warns of Devil Weed Taking Over America
“Is this the kind of country we want?” former congressman Patrick Kennedy said yesterday at a briefing on the social impact of marijuana use in the US. He was pointing to a picture of a jar of Nugtella, a weed-laced hazelnut spread that High Times...
Amen Dunes’ New Record Is an Ode to Failure
Our buddy Damon McMahon's fantastic new record has got the indie rock critical establishment spinning their heads around and 360-degree vomiting in excitement. For once, we agree with them, so we took Damon out for eggs to chat about drugs, cowboys...
PSA: Most American Ranchers Aren't Racist Pieces of Shit
Clive Bundy is just a Fox News-generated exception.
Foamy Platform Shoes Are All the Rage at Argentina's Cowboy Fair
I recently visited La Feria de Mataderos, a gaucho festival located in the middle of Buenos Aires' central meat market, where I ate delicious things like empanadas and Morcilla blood sausage while old toothless old men sang to me.
Photos of the Mining Boom That Is Transforming the American West
Lucas Foglia's new book of photographs, Frontcountry, took seven years to complete. "I went to the American West expecting cowboys, ghost towns, and wilderness," he says. "And when I got there, I found a mining boom—and cowboys."