Out Our Way - Charlie on the Ridge

Out our way, especially when I was just learning to cowboy with Charlie, I was confused by all the various cattle trails that crisscross the Tiger Ridge area. More than once I found I had been following the wrong trail and there as nothing for it but to turn around. Usually Charlie was up on a ridge or somewhere pointing me in the right direction. I still had to do a fair amount of backtracking, but found the right trail and got to where I had been trying to go.

Sadly, not all folks have a Charlie to call them back to the right trail — and some are even more stubborn than the dumbest...