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Out our way, you learn humility the hard way. It is not about pride or ego — but survival. Charlie taught me that every cowboy gets tossed from time to time — and often it is more than pride that is hurt. Indeed, despite Charlie’s skills and experience cowboying, when Freckles was spooked by a dog in the brush while moving cows, Charlie ended up in the hospital and a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He died only a few years later.
Even so, he never quit — and while it must have killed him to sell his horses and the horse trailer he built himself, not to mention accepting that h...
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