by Webmaster | Apr 20, 2015 | Communicating, Law, Life Advice
Back in Angus time, before New Mexico was a state and after lawyers showed up in Colorado, there were cowboys that talked and others that just did the job. Sometimes they fit the movie version in the 1950s—strong silent types. Angus was never garrulous. Even though he...
by Webmaster | Apr 6, 2015 | Horses, Life Advice, Parenting
When Angus was just twelve or thirteen, he hired on for spring roundup on a spread running a small herd of mangy cows in the Espanola Valley south of Chama, New Mexico Territory. It was either that or the one-room school his Mom taught. He liked numbers and reading,...
by Gary L Stuart | Apr 3, 2015 | Life Advice
Angus had been riding an 11,000 foot mountain, on a narrow ridge, when he looked up and saw something that changed his view. Not of the mountain or the eagle. It changed his view of himself. Course, that was more ‘n a hundred years ago. But it works today, just as...
by Webmaster | Mar 30, 2015 | Life Advice, The Media
Just before the 19th Century dropped out of favor, and folks got all high and mighty about everything in the shiny new 20th Century, things changed. Speaking your mind caught on, even out west. But it never worked for Angus. Everyone wanted him to speak his mind—at...
by Webmaster | Mar 23, 2015 | Life Advice
Angus and every other cowboy in 1880 knew the importance of patience. A man in a hurry was often a man headed for a wreck. And if the wreck put you afoot, then you’ll remember why you can’t be in no damn hurry, man. Checking your rigging’ takes time. If there’s a burr...
by Gary L Stuart | Mar 20, 2015 | Life Advice
Angus rode the high ridges along the New Mexico-Colorado border when was 19. He had his reasons and back then, in the early 1880s, a man needed a creed. He began with what almost everyone in the west believed—Stay True To Nature. The rest of it flowed from that...
