E38S4 - It's all about preserving the western way of life and the great cowboy tradition. Can we tell you about the DRA?
The Cowboy Up Podcast with Russell True & Steven Clauson from The White Stallion Ranch
Release Date: 03/16/2024
SE544 Meet Dr. Allen Hamilton ... a cowboy doctor and one of the most extraordinary persons we have ever met. Now you need to meet him and hear from him too!
The Cowboy Up Podcast with Russell True & Steven Clauson from The White Stallion Ranch
Allan Hamilton started as a janitor and eventually went on to graduate from Harvard Medical School and complete his neurosurgical residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Hamilton currently holds four Professorships at the University of Arizona. He is a tenured professor of neurosurgery, as well as professorships in radiation oncology, psychology, and electrical and computer engineering. In 2019, Dr. Hamilton was inducted as Regents’ Professor of Surgery. Dr. Hamilton has held positions as both the Chief of the Division of Neurosurgery and Chairman of the...
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SE543 Welcome and watch out you are about to enter Deadwood South Dakota... Here is the story
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Long time author Rico Lamoureux moved from the Philippines to South Dakota after the pandemic eased and promptly fell in love with the story of Deadwood. He chose South Dakota due to no lockdowns and the rich western history. Rico is a long time crime novel author and the historical characters of Wild Bill, Calamity Jane, Sheriff Bullock and bad guy Al Swearengen seemed like a natural to Rico. T His is where the inspiration for Deadwood Bound started. In much the same vane as stories about Tombstone, Arizona and Dodge City, Deadwood Bound has everything a reader could ask for along with an...
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SE542 The Cowboys Spirit is about helping one another and so two good friends talk about how to do that for each other and others!
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Dan Schneider is a former First Team All American baseball player and after his college time at University of Arizona he went on to play professionally for the Braves and the Astros. After his departure from baseball he needed to take care of his growing family and landed in the casualty insurance business. As luck would have it he started a relationship with the True family and White Stallion Ranch. In 1998 Dan attended the inaugural Dude Ranch Convention and in 2004 he started the Dude Ranch Horse Safety Program. This has lead to a 35% decrease in injuries and helped dude ranches...
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SE541 Stories and tales of women who love horses with Karin Winegar
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Karin Winegar is a long-time journalist who recently completed a 30 + year labor of love when Horse Lovers – Unpacking The Female Fascination With Horses. Karins work has been featured in the New York Times, Conde Nast and The Western Horseman. Karins love for animals made her want to be a veterinarian and her love was eventually channeled to the written word. Karin was a reporter for the Minneapolis Star and along the way interviewed such heavyweights as Dick Cavett, Joan Rivers, Anthony Quinn and Rodney Dangerfield who wore a bathrobe to the interview! Horse Lovers – Unpacking The Female...
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SE540 We are honored today to have a literary legend Chris Enss as our guest on The Cowboy Up Podcast
The Cowboy Up Podcast with Russell True & Steven Clauson from The White Stallion Ranch
Chris Enss is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing non-fiction books about women of the Old West for more than thirty years. Chris was a guest at White Stallion Ranch and she took time from her vacation and spent it with Russell and Steven for the Cowboy Up Listeners. Chris has authored more than fifty published books on the subject of women in the old west. Chris has been honored with nine Will Rogers Medallion Awards, two Elmer Kelton Book Awards, an Oklahoma Center for the Book Award, three Foreword Review Magazine Book Awards, the Laura Downing Journalism...
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SE539 Amy Cullen: from lawyer to horse trainer to fire fighter and what it means to run free!
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At the C Lazy U Ranch in Granby, Colorado Ami Cullen worked her way up from the most basic position to become the Director of Equine Operations. Ami has performed various services for ranch guests, including leading trail rides on private land and BLM land, teaching and educating guests on the skills necessary to ride horses in the mountains over difficult terrain, educating guests on surrounding wildlife and ranch history. Nothing about her previous life as a lawyer prepared her for what she would face when she was confronted by an out-of-control wildfire. Ami shares that experience in her...
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SE538 Let us introduce Bill Markley to you with all of his wonderful stories about his love of The West
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Bill Markley is a long-time friend and guest at White Stallion Ranch and a long-time member of Western Writers of America and a current member for the Will Rogers Medallion Awards One of Bill’s most recent books on the Legendary West Series is Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody: Plainsmen of the Legendary West was wildly successful. Bills love of history and travel were instilled in him as a young boy growing up on the family farm in Pennsylvania. Bill has been in the films Dances with Wolves, Son of the Morning Star, Far and Away, Gettysburg, and Crazy Horse. Bill's soon to be released...
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SE537 Yes there are real farms as well as ranches in the great west ... Let us tell you the story of one of the best!
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Brian Wong is the owner of a third-generation family farm first established in 1939. Brian in the second youngest of 40 grand children and was willing to stay around to do the hard work and preserve the family legacy. Today BKW Farms, in Marana, Arizona employs organic farming methods and they grow a Heritage variety of wheat. BKW Farms is a supplier of grains to Arizona breweries, different types of wheat to Arizona bakeries and locally grown mushrooms. In a state where water supply is a day-to-day issue, Brian has learned how to manage this precious resource with a goal of sustainability....
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SE536 What's it like to live and do business with people on death row. Here is a story and a book to read!
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Greg Laird is a practicing attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has represented numerous defendants in every stage of death penalty jurisprudence, including two victories at the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals thereby saving his clients from the Oklahoma death chamber. He wrote this book so readers could experience the twists, turns and inner turmoil that comes from representing people on death row. He is the founding partner of the Laird Group where he represents clients in a multitude of legal areas including criminal defense. In his spare time he likes to read, attend sporting events and spend...
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SE535 - We welcome Alex LaPierre to our program to tell us about mutual understanding between the Borderlands of Mexico and the USA
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Alex La Pierre first arrived in southern Arizona to work for the National Park Service. He wanted to focus on the historic preservation and interpretation at Tumacacori National Historic Park. His goal included creating and leveraging nonprofit cross-border work experience in project management and program development. It was then when Alex founded became the director of Borderlandia which has become a bi-national organization committed to building public understanding of the borderlands. Alex works every day to build something positive that impacts this world by connecting people across...
info_outlineDRA stands for the Dude Ranch Association which not only preserves the great Dude Ranch and guest ranch businesses in this country, but also topreserve the Western tradition and the cowboy experience ... We sometimes say with a smile it may take the western way of life to preserve Western civilization!
So today join the gentlemen Cowboys as they visit with Colleen Hudson as she tells us the story of the Dude Ranch Foundation and how they seek to do to help the young men and women who want to carry on both the business and tradition of this great way of life.