Out Our Way: "Thy kingdom come"

Out our way, I am pleased to have been able to live a dream. Like many kids growing up, I wanted to play cowboy - and here on the Hi-Line I got to play it for real. Charlie took me under his wing and let me work cattle with him for six years. Oh, I suspect the real deal cowboys will always see me as an amateur - and that is accurate - but at least with Charlie it wasn't just wearing the hat, it was doing the actual work.

Now, I have ridden off and on for years, but always on different horses owned by someone else. I did not know about bonding. Ken Overcast sent out a fun thing on Facebook, a p...