Meanwhile, Back At The Dude Ranch...

May, 1980

They say the West is dead--the old wild West, that is--where men were men and you shot first and checked a guy's politics afterward. Today we hear that the rough-and-tumble days are now long gone and that they live on only in reverent memory--or on television or in the movies.But whoever is passing out all those cow chips obviously hasn't spent much time poking around many bunkhouses lately. The cattle drives north on the Chisholm Trial may have been replaced by more temperature-controlled means...