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Full Disclosure. Today is Monday, Sept.r 28, 2026. My family—wife Lauren, daughter Shelbi and son-in-law Ben—have just spent a glorious day fly fishing on the Snake River at the foot of the Grand Teton Mountains in the Grand Teton National park in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Native Cutthroat trout were the ...

Outlaw Belle Starr was a relatively minor regional outlaw when someone ambushed her with a shotgun in February of 1899. Local papers in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Northeast Texas noted her passing, her alleged crimes and her real and fabricated dalliances with famous outlaws, then went on to other things.  The ...

Pan Zareta, the greatest filly in horse racing history, was a safe bet if you bet her to win. The New York Timeslabelled her the “Queen of the Turf” and others dubbed her “Texas Whirlwind” and “Panzy.”  In the course of six years, in 151 races in three countries, Pan Zareta ...

I would venture to say that when we attend church, it’s not considered a very humorous place. Let’s face it, we go to church to pay respect to our faith in God and the rules that we are supposed to live our daily lives by. This is not to say ...

Today is Aug.31, 2026. Today also marks the day when the Risk Management Agency (RMA) publishes the new County Base Values for your Rainfall Index policies, or what are known as Pasture Rangeland Forage (PRF) policies. If you have followed this column, then you also know that we are starting ...

S.B. Moore started his career with the Southern Pacific Railway as a conductor in California and worked his way up to construction engineer for Southern Pacific lines running east of El Paso. We remember him now, not for working on the railroad, but for a weird idea he had to ...

Cattle markets continue searching for a practical bottom to the sharp early-summer correction as cattle prices trended lower from the middle of July through the middle of August. Besides seasonal pressure and sluggish wholesale beef values, a variety of news and uncertainty continue to roil confidence. Toward the end of ...

If you recall, several months ago I wrote in my column how cattlemen seem to catch the Chicken Little syndrome. At that time, calf prices were on the way up and the New World screwworm was nearing the border of Texas. Ranchers were starting to panic and the coffee shops ...

Cruise U.S. Highway 83 south out of Ochiltree County and you will come to the Panhandle town of Shamrock. The name comes from George Nickel, an Irish immigrant who grazed sheep on the area’s immense grasslands. In 1890, he applied for a post office at his dugout, six miles north ...

I am writing this column today for the first time in our new location. That’s right—we’ve moved offices for the first time since December of 1992! Hard to believe?  The reason publications seldom move is because of all the archived publications. In our case, this involved repacking and moving issues ...