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[email protected] harderh than anybody else. Never whine, The other part of the cowboy way, nevern give up, never allow pain or dis- therefore — the part I haven’t men- comfort to stop you from reaching a tioned yet — is both unethical and Column writing is a lot of things, and goal. Remain cheerful in all weathers. immoral: If you can take it, if you can all of them are personal. Like living. You Think for yourself. Adapt to circum- make it yours through muscle and grit want to share what you see and know stances. Keep your word. In fence build- alone, it should be yours. (or think you know) with your readers, ing over 9,000 feet or in life, either Some called that “manifest desti- whom you count as friends. one, “just put both hands on it and ny.” I’ve accepted its harvest blithely, Consequently, self-indulgence is a give it hell,” as my Uncle Franklin once because I’m too selfish to give back danger. But let me risk it here by laying instructed my brother. what my forbears took. I could; I could down some thoughts about the cattle Tolerance is part of the cowboy way, find the remaining Utes and hand them ranch my family built in Colorado start- too — the notion that other people can a few acres of high range in a personal ing almost a century ago. make up their own minds about politics, symbolic gesture that might effectively My grandfather, Walter Nash, home- religion or lifestyle without interference revitalize the cowboy way for me and steaded west of Pike’s Peak, then mar- from you, as long as they don’t decide to for my children. ried in 1914, having arrived from Mis- interfere with your choices. ROGER WILLIAMS / FLORIDA WEEKLY But since I’m not going to do that, and souri in 1898 as a boy of 14 to work And finally, the cowboy way insists A memorial saddle and cross, posted on the others like me aren’t either, the cowboy on the big Stirrup Ranch. His pay was on a chivalry of sorts: You help those in side of the road last week in South Park, Colo. way is in danger of losing a pulse, per- room, board and one cow every six need who cross your trail, if the chance manently. months. He later raised seven children arises. property with my mother and sister. What I hope to teach my son, Nash, in the mountains with my Kentucky- But none of that is enough, nowadays Only a generation or two before my therefore, is a new-model cowboy way, born grandmother, Elizabeth. One of — and not because life is more compli- grandfather, the Ute Indians kept a sum- one that includes the courage to look in those is my mother, Ellen Jean. cated in the 21st century. There were mer hunting camp up in that country. a mirror not tricked out to hide warts. Together and with their two sons, complications then and there are com- As a boy, I routinely found their arrow- I figure that’s the only way to survive Walter and Elizabeth created one of the plications now, for individuals. heads and grinders on “Flint Hill,” a honorably as the 21st century unfolds larger cattle operations in the Colorado Instead, the cowboy way is not enough quarter-mile from the cabin and corrals — the only way to avoid hanging up Rockies. because it fails to take into account what where the Nashes later headquartered. the saddle and marking the grave of an I spent significant portions of my we did, and therefore who we really are, My family inherited land the nation American temperament that remains as youth on the Nash ranch, and like many both as Nashes or Williamses, in my took from them by force. And we con- good or better than any, at its best. Americans still do, I identified with the case, or as Americans, in my case and tinue to participate in a tradition that And not good enough, otherwise. ■ cowboy way, at least as I understood its yours, together. begins with that taking. practice in my family. (When it came I realized this last week when I took People like us embraced the same his- (To see photos of the Nash ranch and to the ethic I’m about to describe, my my youngest son, Nash, into the Colo- tory in Florida, too — here where the its people, visit www.facebook.com/ father, who arrived from Albany, N.Y., in rado mountains where I still have some United States did its level best to com- fortmyersfloridaweekly.) Children’s Medical Care Is Soaring to New Heights. Helping a five year old overcome a battle with cancer. Reconstructing a child’s misshapen leg. Performing heart surgery on a patient who is only 12 hours old. Palm Beach Children’s Hospital has elevated the quality of children’s medical care in South Florida. 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