Ranching Stories

The story of two people that dated in high school in their small Midwest home town. Briefly infatuated with each other, they fell in love. But they broke up when they had a fight. Over the years they lost contact with each other. Never knowing what became of the other. They always thought about each other as the years past in their dreams. They each thought about what might have been. Then one day fate stepped in and by the grace of the Devine, they found each other again in the small Texas town of Medicine Bow. A thousand miles from where they last saw each other! What had happened to the other! They were about to find out! What would fate have in store for them this time? Would Loraine and Steven both find their dream in Texas? You will have to read the story to find out!

(Book 1) Our home, Mystic Moon Ranch, is one of the largest ranches in California. Nestled between Bakersfield and Los Angeles, its land stretches across nearly every type of terrain imaginable-towering mountains, rolling valleys, winding canyons, and miles of rugged high desert. The sheer size and isolation of the land make it the perfect place for our pack to live safely, hidden far from curious human eyes. Mystic Moon Ranch spans over 250,000 acres of working land, and our pack has owned it since 1853. For generations, we've taken pride in more than just ranching. We've built a way of life here-one that provides food, jobs, and stability for nearby communities while protecting the land that sustains us. Most of the ranch remains untouched wilderness, carefully preserved so future generations of our pack can roam the same forests, hills, and deserts we do today. From the outside, Mystic Moon Ranch looks like an enormous, thriving agricultural enterprise. But to those of us who live here... it's much more than that. It's our home.

Troy is a 17 year old girl who travels around the states. She was a trick rider but she quit to join the circut. She is a barrel racer. She comes home to see her friends and family and go back to school for her senior year. What will happen when she comes back? $%$%$%$%%$%$%$%$%$%$%$%$% Find out the rest in the book!

Gary Maxwell has recently graduated from college with a degree in ranch management. Now that he has the degree he has no desire to use it. At all. On the journey to find something new and exciting he never thought a girl could or would catch his eye. But the good Lord just might have a different idea! Brooke Kendall is stuck in a runt since graduating high school three years ago. She has been working at a hair salon and really enjoys it, but it is discouraging to watch your friends get married and have babies all while you have never had a serious relationship! Sometimes your prayers are answered where you never thought they would be. Come along with Gary and Brooke as they learn just that! (Sequel To Can Cowboy's Fix Mistakes?) Although you do not have to read it first this gives some spoilers for it so I would encourage you to check that one out first!

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.

After getting divorced from her husband, Noelle Johnson finds herself fleeing from him as he goes on a crazy rampage. During her flee, Noelle finds herself and her young daughter, Kate, stranded in Oakland, Oklahoma but is rescued by a tall and handsome cowboy.

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?

When a furious Stetson Dalton leaves home at the age of eighteen, he never expects that tragic circumstances will force him to return home and seek the help of his estranged family. Or that his paralyzed daughter will find peace on the ranch he was raised on. What he does expect is the cold reunion with his father and his older brother. Will he be able to repair the rift? Or will his well-respected father always hold him at arm's length?

Beckett never speaks. He's been bullied for as long as he can remember and lived with his grandfather until he unexpectedly passed. He moved in with his grandfather's old friend on his ranch in Montana, slowly over time he realized he was falling for the farmhand. Beckett hopes the move will be a chance for a fresh start for him but it actually turns out to be the opposite. (All pictures used are from pinterest!)

A rancher becomes trapped in an impromptu fight with coyotes in order to save a cornered calf.

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.

My first ever commissioned work: a commentary on the life of an Albertan family rancher in light of the XL Foods scandal and other stress factors. First published in Canada's Peoples Voice in the November 15-31, 2012 issue.

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?

Yari and Jak are from two completley diffremt backgrounds. Hearbreak soon begins wreaks havoc on Jak's family and he is forced to leave his lifestyle and lover behind, he quickly finds a new life a new lover and a new family. Yari has been crushed amnd undermined by her peers and her abusive boyfriend. She turns to the ranch that raised her for help. But is moving on really as easy as they think?

"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.

Domestic livestock weren't the only animals that the farmers and ranchers had to deal with. The wildlife of the region didn't hide out in the bushes all the time. Sometimes they were pretty much in your face. Rattlesnakes came to the farms to catch the rats and mice that populated granaries. Rabbits also took a liking to the easy pickings. Both animals, rattlesnakes and jackrabbits, ended up being a nuisance that the local farmers and ranchers had to control.

Brynlee Matthews lives with her dad, brother, and sister on there small ranch in Garrison, Colorado. Living in a small town has many perks but some downfalls as well. Riley Bennett lives alone with his sister since their parents moved to a neighboring city leaving them the ranch. One of those downfalls of living in a small town is that everyone knows everyone including Brynlee and Riley and it's safe to say they don't like each other. So what happens when the grumpy old guy who lives a mile down the road from Riley dies and the people who bought his ranch are Brynlee and her family?