We piled into Steve's giant Lincoln Towncar and drove for hours out into the fields and pastures of Texas ranch country. Exhausted, David and I fell asleep in the back seat. After some time we were jostled awake when Steve turned off of the pavement onto a bumpy dirt road marked only by a gnarled old tree.
His spread was a small homestead of 80 acres. Hardly a spec in the vast open plains of Texas but it suited us just fine. We settled right into ranch life. David worked with Steve in the barnyard and out in the fields. He learned to ride horses and rope cattle. His hands became hard and calloused. I helped Steve's wife Alma around the house and in the garden. We worked from sun-up to sun-down. At night we would sit in rocking chairs on the
His spread was a small homestead of 80 acres. Hardly a spec in the vast open plains of Texas but it suited us just fine. We settled right into ranch life. David worked with Steve in the barnyard and out in the fields. He learned to ride horses and rope cattle. His hands became hard and calloused. I helped Steve's wife Alma around the house and in the garden. We worked from sun-up to sun-down. At night we would sit in rocking chairs on the