Out Our Way: The dude at the H-O - Luke 18:9-14

Out our way, most folks who look like cowboys probably are. Even exceptions like me — an amateur greenhorn — have chaps that are discolored and scratched up from working cows in the thickets, boots well-broken-in from hours of riding and a battered old hat worn in wind, rain, snow and soaked with sweat. But now and then, one runs across a “dude” who wants to look the part but has never done it.

A friend of mine in Great Falls owned a ranch store called the H Bar O — H-O — where he regularly helped outfit local ranchers and farmers with their needs. But come the state fair, he could always coun...