In the 1930s, cowboying paid $1 a day, and Oley Kohlman thought himself lucky to get an extra quarter for breaking broncs. "Cowboy'n the Way It Was" is Kohlman's story about ranching in North Park. Kohlman mixes history and philosophy with his everyday experiences and he tells his stories with a sense of humor. When he complimented a cook on the best pie she'd ever made, she informed him someone else had fixed it. "You can open your mouth bigger than anybody of your size that I ever saw," a friend told him. Kohlman, who ...
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In the 1930s, cowboying paid $1 a day, and Oley Kohlman thought himself lucky to get an extra quarter for breaking broncs. "Cowboy'n the Way It Was" is Kohlman's story about ranching in North Park. Kohlman mixes history and philosophy with his everyday experiences and he tells his stories with a sense of humor. When he complimented a cook on the best pie she'd ever made, she informed him someone else had fixed it. "You can open your mouth bigger than anybody of your size that I ever saw," a friend told him. Kohlman, who spent World War II as a ski trooper, liked nothing better than cowboying. "Cowboy'n the Way It Was", dispels the glamorous version of a cowboy riding down a paved trail. It was hard lonely work yet the book is mostly about the adventures, the friendships, and the humor of "on- the-job training. He tells of a time in the west that has passed.
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