Ranching Stories

Emily and Christian have been next-door neighbors and childhood friends since diapers. Though the two chose different paths in the social pool in high school, their fellowship stands strong. Senior year is almost over and Emily is determined to get her crush to like her back and go to Prom with him. With the help of her best friend, Christian, Emily embarks on a path of unrequited love. Not being the skinniest girl and kind of a romantic, Emily has a low self-esteem of herself but dreams of her Prince Charming daily. Will Christian, who is handsome and one of the most popular guys in school, be able to provide his best friend with her Prince Charming in a week?

"Then what are you looking for?" "I don't know. But I think I might have found it." Izzy is looking forward to a summer in the Valley, her Valley. The place she had felt more free and accepted then anywhere else. The Scottish Lass travels to Canada's wilderness to spend her summer with the Harrison family, people that have accepted her as their own when she first came there a year before. Join her in her exciting adventures of horses, cowboys, inquisitive children, long days under the endless sky and a particular young man that she doesn't seem able to get out of her system.

Poppy Mendez has hardly had the best start in life. But she's been given a second chance at happiness. Now living with the loved and respected Mendez family, Poppy is slowly, but surely, coming out of her shell and she is happier than she's been in years. But it's all just too good to be true. When a ghost from her haunted past makes an unexpected reappearance, everything in Poppy's life goes downhill. Poppy finds in increasingly difficult to resist the strong shoulder to cry on of someone who is just as damaged as her. Even if that strong shoulder is her sexy new art teacher.

Lainey McCarty has always wanted to gallop across the prairie, ride broncs, cut cattle with her dad and brothers, compete in rodeos, and be a cowgirl. But with all her luck, she is born in the middle of the city. Jackie and Wyatt (The parents), were raised on farms. But not long after they got married, Wyatt got a well paid job. And that job, made them all move to the city. When some things go wrong, Wyatt resigns from his job. The kids were young, so they could learn everything they needed to. They all move to the country, 100km away from the nearest town. In this book, you will read about Lainey, pursuing her dreams. Finding a cowgirl best friend, and winning at rodeos.

It was the Apache Trail in Arizona, 1886, and no one would have ever guessed what was coming from the horizon. Cade Jahnston thought he knew what to expect when he signed up with his brother to be one of the new trail bosses at the Circle T ranch. He thought it would be the job to change his life for the better. Cade never expected it to be for the worse. P.S This is my book. Don't steal my stuff.

*****Cassie Donovan has been a single mother for four years. Her son’s father left her believing that he wasn’t good enough for her, but that wasn’t true. He was perfect for her, he just didn’t realize it. After waiting so long for him to come back she’s finally trying to move on even though she’d vowed not to. Cassie is dating a great guy named Luke Andrews and her son Dylan, seems to like him. That is until his father moves back to town. *****Clint O’Donnell realizes that it was wrong to leave the love of his life, Cassie. Now five years later he’s back in town and he wants her back. He finally believes that he just might be good enough for her love. What he doesn’t expect to find is that she’s moved on -- most of the way, anyways -- and that she has a son, his son. *****Can they reconnect after all the years apart and the things they never told each other? Or will their relationship be doomed from the beginning? *****Love never really runs away…

Kelsey Cliff's life is pretty good. She has loving parents, and an amazing brother, Nicholas. That all changes when a pregnant mare named Alice arrives, expecting twins. These twins brighten things up around Kelsey's ranch.

A brochure brings Shawna to the almost-abandoned town of Echo Village. Longing for a fresh start and more in her mundane life, Shawna writes a letter to the mayor of the town--Dunhill, expressing interest in restoring the village to its former glory. During her time there, she will learn to tend to crops, care for farm animals, fish, mine, build buildings, and even write the self-help books she has always dreamed of. Gradually, albeit surely, Shawna will make the town a better place for all of its current and future inhabitants. She will experience her happiest highs and her saddest lows. She may even meet the love of her life along the way. Who knows?

The Mountain Ridge Ranch had been passed down through the Colton family for generations. So when Michelle Colton opens the ranch to the town's less fortunate children, her eldest son, Jack, is less than impressed. Why would he want a bunch of trouble makers running riot in his home? With an agreement made to be left out of his mother's plan, Jack tries to turn a blind eye to the unwelcome intruders, but that's not as easy as he imagined. Within the blink of an eye, Jack finds himself being wrapped up in his mother's new regime and that's not the only thing he's caught up in. A certain brunette, Willow, with shy eyes and a timid posture, immediately gains the stubborn man's attention, much to his dismay. Jack was determined to stay out of his mother's pet project, but a girl with a damaged past soon has him wrapped around her little finger, whipped As time gallops on and the teenagers settle, rumours begin to form, arguments take flight and secrets fall out into the open. Pasts are revealed and pasts, once again, pursue the frightened. It's not long before Jack finds himself desperate to uncover the truth surrounding the fear in Willow, and he becomes even more eager to protect the nervous girl from the world, and maybe, even herself.

Everything was going perfect for Bailey Grant. A life in Nashville, a hit music career, an upcoming international tour. She thought that nothing could possibly bring her down from the high she was on. And then everything went to shit. With all that she's ever worked towards crashing down in shambles around her, Bailey finds herself returning home to her roots. Her passion for music lost and without a clear purpose, Bailey is unsure where she is heading next. But meeting Noah Hartley might be the exact kind kind of distraction that she's looking for. A Texan bull-rider with mute sister, Noah Hartley has problems of his own. After a freak accident destroyed his old life, he packs up and moves to Oklahoma, determined to start anew with his sister. A new ranch, a new life, Noah is ready to embrace the future, whatever that means. But when he collides with Bailey Grant, the only person who seems to be able to connect with his silent sister, he knows that nothing will ever be the same again. Two people set on a collision course that will alter their lives forever, Mayfly Melodies showcases the innocence of love, the strength of lives torn apart, and the indescribable healing power of music. *First Place Winner of the 2017 Realist Awards: Summer Edition 'Realist of Them All' Award and a Featured Wattpad story Cover designed by the incredible: @WonderfulMiracles

Shawna is summoned to Castanet by a small orange fairy to do something about the unbalanced nature conditions and the shortage of agricultural products being sold in stores. She was looking to leave behind her old life, in favorite of something more exciting anyway. Shawna never imagined herself as a famer. However, she was opened to trying. Join Shawna as she navigates her new life, brings back the forces of nature, grows crops, raises animals, earns money, makes new friends, and eventually starts a family of her very own!

Emersyn Hart needed a new start, and maybe moving to Tennessee from Iowa to teach was just the thing. Though she’ll miss her family, she needs time and space to get over the events of the last year. Moving to a new state brings her new friends, and into the life of Drew Pryor. An event she isn’t quite ready for. Drew is one of four sons from a wealthy family who has more roots in Tennessee than the 100 year old Oak trees on their land. Being a member of the Pryor family, and part owner of the JMP Ranch, brings money and prestige, but Drew realizes something is missing in his life. Meeting Emersyn opens his eyes to the possibility of love, and he quickly learns that some people have secrets they don’t wish to talk about.

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This story is about a spring blizzard that hits southwestern Montana and a local farmer loses a couple of newborn calves and decides to go out into the blizzards in hopes of finding them and bringing them back home. Follow Gus on his journey with his cow horse McCloud while they go against the odds and ride off into the freezing snowy abyss. I do not own the artwork.

Howdy! Welcome to Roseglen ranches! This is a farming/ranching roleplay where you can be almost any domestic or even wild animals! (Cover by me! thought the pic was super cute (; )

Will Cooper, Maggie Driscoll, and Jack Merrett grew up together. They are best friends and will do anything for each other. The only problem is as good friends grow up feelings change and friends sometimes become lovers, but that means someone is going to be left out. Since both Jack and Will are in love with Maggie, who will she choose? How will she choose? Will their friendship be destroyed or can they adapt to being adults. Then the idea that money, land, and a larger family is just the beginning to their problems. An age old feud, and a gambling bet will reveal secrets that can destory their friendship and their way of life. Can they keep the ranch running for the next generation or will this be the end.

In the flat plains of Kansas, 27 year old Tom ends his rodeo career short to come back to the family ranch. Will Tom be excepted back on to the ranch? Or will Tom have to be sent back into the hard ways of rodeo?

Growing up as a member of a ranching family in Branson, a small town in southeastern Colorado, provided author Larada Horner-Miller a treasure-trove of stories, characters, and emotional moments that make up her touching memoir, This Tumbleweed Landed. This collection of poems and prose transports readers back to rural America during the fifties and sixties, to one idyllic, tight-knit community in particular. Each of the book's eight sections weaves a nostalgic yarn that tells of playtimes with friends and neighbors, favorite hiding places, living without a telephone for the first eleven years of life, and the touching memories of growing up on a ranch community. Whether it is Saturday night dances or hot days working with 4-H at the county fair, the poems and pages roll along like a tumbleweed in search of a place to land. Readers will find themselves longing to go back to this very specific time and place, whether they actually experienced it in their own lives or not. Read about this daddy's little girl and her adventures that mold and shape her formative years. Where will this tumbleweed land, and what kind of woman will she be when she finally arrives?

It all started with a newspaper ad. Lillian "Lilly" Farlow has been struggling to keep the Twin Buttes Ranch, left to her by her father when he died, running. Determined to keep the home she loves for her and her twin siblings, Hope and Daniel, she answers an ad in a newspaper and agrees to become a partner in the Sunrise Stage Line. Katherine "Kat" McKay, the owner of the stage line, is looking for a fresh start after her parents died in a steamboat explosion, leaving her with 2 stagecoaches and a couple teams of horses and a pile of debt. After selling off the family mansion and estate, and placing an ad in multiple newspapers out west, she receives an answer from a small mining town called Yankee Flats. Working together the two women, along with Rye Talbot, Lilly's foreman, Lilly's long lost brother Langdon, an former soldier turned alcoholic turned wrangler, and a runaway girl, they manage to outlast a greed crazed mother, an ambitious banking family, and the elements to beat the long odds against them. Book 1 in the Trail to Twin Buttes series