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{SPEAKER name="Dev"}
When I said stories, it just reminded me of talking to a little little lady down in the where we hold the parties every night, I don't know what they call that hall.

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She was asking me all about cowboys and she wanted to know if there really were some cowboys left.
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I said, "Yeah there's lots of cowboys.
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They're in Montana, Washington, Idaho, Arizona, Wyoming, New Mexico, Texas, California.

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So there are lots of actual cowboys left."
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Then uh then I told her,
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I said, "It's kind of a strange thing."
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I said, "I'm guilty myself."
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I said, "I was born and raised on a ranch all my life.
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Been around cowboys all my life, but when I want something to read I still go and I buy a western book about cowboys.

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I still can't figure it out."
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Then I told her, I said, "If there isn't a killing on the first page, I get rid of it and I get another one."
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I really had her going, but that is almost the truth.

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{SPEAKER name="Dev"}
But I was... When I joined the Marine Corp, they sent me to San Diego, California, to -to be in boot camp,
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and uh, I thought I was the only Westerner there.
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All the rest of the guys seemed to be out of Brooklyn, New York.
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I remember some was from Alabama and the Carolinas.
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But finally I did run across an old cowboy from Wyoming.

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So we kind of buddied up together.
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This one, one occasion, I'll never forget.
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He was a married man.
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He kind of moped around and wouldn't say much for a couple of weeks.

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I finally found out he, he hadn't had a letter from his wife for several weeks longer than what he thought should've...it should've...been.
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Finally he got a letter from his mother.
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He was reading this letter long from his mother and pretty soon he just throwed it down on the ground and just started stomping on it.
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I couldn't figure out what was the matter.
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Finally he said...he said...
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Anyways his mother told him in the letter that his wife was laid up with arthritis.
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And he stomped on that letter and he said, "I know them damned Itis boys," and he says, "That Art's the worst one of the bunch."

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{SPEAKER name="John"}
Let's give him a hand for that.
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Well that's a tall order to top, but uh, I think Glen is equal to the challenge
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or the offering, either one.

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{SPEAKER name="Glen"}
Whatever you want to call it. Yesterday over at the main stage, well, I was telling about...

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Kenny here about the time he come to Arkansas and I had a little job on the side.
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I run a small ranch there. You take all kinds of odd jobs to help support it, you know.

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This one of my odd jobs, doing these things, you know
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But, at that time I had a job riding a truckload of dynamite down into a deep canyon where a guy was trying to start a lead mine that never was successful
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but there was the driver and me and I helped them unload it and we carried the caps and the dynamite and the whole works down there.

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And we went off this kind of plateau that Dodd Mountain is, where I live, and down-
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almost straight down into this canyon that's called Bullpen Holler.
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It's really steep and a long ways down in there.

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And Kenny is awful calm about everything and he got in the back with the dynamite and just laid down on top of all these boxes and went to sleep.
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Well we went off of the rim and started down there and this old boy hit the brakes and they went all the way to the floor
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and we just speeded up a little more.

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And he tried to shift it right into lull before we got going too fast
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and he scrambled them gears all up and we're just free wheeling and gosh we was going fast.

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He's pumping the breaks and pulling on the steering wheel and hollering and screaming and,
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and he said, he looked at me and said, "What do we do?"
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And I says, "Well, I'd better wake Kenny Trobridge up."

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And he says, "What good will that do?"
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I said, "Well, it won't do any good, but Kenny's from an little bitty old place in Montana called Darby and he's never seen a damn wreck like we're gonna have.
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So, I'm gonna wake him up."

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{SPEAKER name="Glen"}
But anyways, I never, I didn't go on to tell what happened after that, I just stopped there.
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And right down at the bottom when we hit the other wall of the canyon and there was a mule in the way
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and we hit the mule and the canyon wall on the opposite side at the same time and it was a tremendous explosion.

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And about two days later I came down and I started looking around, you know, see if anything was left.
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And all I found was the rear end of the mule we hit and Kenny's nose.

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Well I took 'em, scooped them up, crawled up out of the canyon,
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and went home and got a pickup truck and hauled it into town what was left.
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Just the nose and the rear end of the mule.

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Took it to the hospital and they worked on it for about a month there.
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I just-They never had a job like that, you know but
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This plastic surgery was really wonderful.
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And after working on him for about a month, well here he is right up here telling stories with the best of 'em. [Laughter]


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{SPEAKER name="Kenny"}
Thank you ol' man.

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{SPEAKER name="Glen"}
You're welcome Kenny.

{SPEAKER name="John"}
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If any of you have had the pleasure of hanging around the uh, the saddle maker tent which is also known as cowboy camp #2,
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ya know that this goes on all afternoon.

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Now, when Glenn gets his hooks in there one time
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and Ken sets back and he gets uh, gets even,
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and now it's getting even time.

{SPEAKER name="Kenny"}
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Well, I don't know about getting even with that one right now.
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One I got kinda mind thinking about,
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is a story I heard that since I been here,
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uh a fella that had to go home that was the first week with us,
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[Wady] Mitchell come up with this
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and it kinda fit in like our country that is the things there.

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And uh, they had a place where several of the outfits come together for brandin' time.

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Ya know, they come in there and bring cattle in and uh,
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the fellers all work together and they'd been doing that for quite some time,
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which we do at our place too ya know, there all the time.

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And uh, so, they build an outhouse,
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a nice outhouse there and all and been there a long time,
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well some of the things they had there, like their, the stones they had for fixing around their fire and stuff like that they put in there and kept it.

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And well, it was right the road come right by there, people got stoppin' and using that outhouse and stealing these rocks, things that they had in there
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so they locked it, they put a lock on it.

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This year why, they got there while some of them gettin there, here rode up an old boy, he was an old boy on a horse to help them.
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And he had to go to the outhouse, of course, so he went to the outhouse and it was locked
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And he come over, and he said this other guy who's kind of head of the outfit
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He said, "that outhouse is locked!"
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"Yeah", he said, "but here's the key," he said' "I got key the for it"
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And he stood there, and he said,
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"Lock an outhouse!"
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He said "man"- he said "that's terrible to have to lock an outhouse."
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He said, "my grandfather came in here and homesteaded,
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My father's been on that place, and now I'm on it.
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And I'm getting pretty old", he said, "and the first thing they built was an outhouse"
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Said, "And I never locked that outhouse, it's never been locked."
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And he said, "come to think of it- we never even lost a spoon for all the time, it was bad"
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[[laughter]]
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"Nobody stole anything out of there."

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Johnny, you ready to pitch in on this?

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{SPEAKER name="Johnny"}
-yea, you know, during the -during the cowboy tourism- we been on the-
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everybody's considered Duff the ladies man of the outfit

I cant figure out why either
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{SPEAKER name="Johnny"}
"anyway after our last tour, I was up down in- before moving back to Utah I was living in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
A little bit outside of town there. I was there working on a dump truck, that was sittin' outside, a little ways from the house there,

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nd' my daughter, come runnin' up and she says "one of the guys from the cowboy tour is here." and I said "which one?"
nd' she says "well I don't know"

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nd' I told her "well, you run back up to the house and if it's Glen Orland- tell your mama to put some chicken on -make some supper"
said "if it's Kenny, we done get a case of beer and make some beans and ham"

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and if it was old Brown E. Ford I says "fix him up some soup and get him a jug of Scotch"
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I said "but if it's old Duff?" I said "You run back up and crawl in your mama's lap and you stay there till I get up to the house"

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"well Duffer, I don't know how those stories get started"