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    A Cowboy's Guide to Growing Up Right
    A Cowboy's Guide to Growing Up Right
    A Cowboy's Guide to Growing Up Right
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    A Cowboy's Guide to Growing Up Right

    By Slim Randles

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    Growing up right is never easy, even if all the stars line up and you win the parent lottery. If you don’t, it’s even tougher. Since a cowboy is the pinnacle of human evolution (just ask one) he has certain values and responsibilities and attitudes to pass along to help others, even if they are in the city, and regardless of age or gender.

    Told with the frank humor of the range and mountains by a master storyteller whose column is read by nearly two million people each week, this book gives unique advice straight from the shoulder for those who would aspire to have a great life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJun 10, 2014
    ISBN9781936744923
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      Book preview

      A Cowboy's Guide to Growing Up Right - Slim Randles

      A Cowboy’s Guide to

      Growing Up Right

      by

      Slim Randles

      Published by Rio Grande Books

      Los Ranchos, New Mexico

      © 2011, 2014 Slim Randles

      All rights reserved. Rio Grande Books, an imprint of LPD Press;

      Los Ranchos, New Mexico

      www.LPDPress.com

      Printed in the U.S.A.

      Book design by Paul Rhetts

      Illustrations: Jerry Montoya

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information retrieval system, without the permission of the publisher.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Randles, Slim.

      A cowboy’s guide to growing up right / by Slim Randles.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 978-1-890689-91-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      ISBN 978-1-936744-92-3 (eBook)

      1. Conduct of life. 2. Cowboys--Humor. 3. Randles, Slim. I. Title.

      PS3568.A537C69 2011

      814’.54--dc22

      2011016978

      To Catherine Arntzen,

      who runs the finest finishing school for old cowboys in the entire world.

      Contents

      Cowboy: The pinnacle of evolution

      Life is opportunity, not entertainment

      Have faith in something

      Do the right thing,

      even when no one’s looking

      Ride for the brand

      Good grooming, the silent secret

      Out of a job? Give your work away

      Courtesy makes the homeliest

      of us beautiful

      To think right, first straighten your shoes

      Choose your friends

      before they choose you

      Find a mentor

      Find a passion

      Lie to yourself now and then

      Take responsibility

      Now go commit yourself

      A good cowboy can do anything. — Gene Burkhart, Sequoia-Kings Pack Trains

      Cowboy: The pinnacle of evolution

      Every cowboy knows there is a great deal more to being a grown-up than getting tall and inheriting the ability to reproduce.

      There are ways of handling life that cannot be measured on a spreadsheet. There are ways of gaining respect in this world far beyond the scale of what you have, through that which you are.

      If you are fortunate, as I was, you come equipped with an intact family and an extended family beyond that willing to take you to task for deviations from societal proprieties, and pat you on the back for extraordinary effort in the right direction.

      But even if you are in that enviable position (and especially if you aren’t) that doesn’t make you a cowboy. A cowboy (and by this we’re including girls, too) is simply the pinnacle of evolution, the nadir of American culture. You’ll find there are the right ways to do something, the wrong ways, and the cowboy ways. And this little book will help you become an adult cowboy, a grown-up able to spit in the eye of evil and sloth and be respected – perhaps revered – for your independent thought and kindness to others.

      Growing up right in the cowboy way is simple, but it isn’t accomplished without a lot of practice. When you finish, you’ll walk tall (no matter how high off the ground your hat may be) and cut a straight path. You’ll be kind to those who are helpless and older, and wise to those who are younger than you and need guidance.

      Best of all, you’ll blossom into the kind of young man or woman that you’ll be proud of. You’ll establish a legacy

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