Monday, October 13, 2008


Western legend won't die Bob King's Cowboy School refuses to let people forget about a simpler way of life. When people type "rancher" into Google, they come up with about 6.4 million hits. When they type "rodeo," they get about 42 million. But when they type in "cowboy," almost 95 million hits return, an ironic fate for a once solitary fellow. For years, Wyoming has profited from perpetuating its image as the "Cowboy State." Yet we rarely consider the mechanics of being a cowboy - we simply latch onto a feeling. King retools that feeling. Based in Arvada for a portion of the year, King and his wife, Betty, teach students the basic of cowboy - the verb. They teach horsemanship in its "natural" form, roping technique and ranch basics. Their students include a wide array of characters: from a high--powered CEO, to the ranch hand who wants to learn to rope, to a humble journalist. Anyone who longs to learn is welcome....

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