Ranching Stories

Jaelyn Maxwell and Tyson Reed have a past, one that didn't end so well. Jaelyn has moved on from the past, but hasn't forgotten it. Starting colts with her brother, Cane, keeps her busy. When she goes to help gather sheep, Tyson is the last person she expects to see. Tyson is a vet student at College Station still regretting letting the love of his life go. There isn't a day that she doesn't cross his mind. When the two spend a week together old feelings arise. Will they patch things up and get back together? #150 in General Fiction! 10/16 (Cover by: @CountryGrl101 )

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?

My name is Dyer, I'm a wattpad story writer, this is going to be about my daily routine of what I do at my home! I hope you all enjoy!

A short story from the voice of a cattle rancher and the details of branding day.

A girl and her family work on a ranch in Texas when one day she sees a wild horse who she has never seen before, little does she know that her and that horse will have the adventure oof a life time

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?

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.

A returning war veteran and a small-town rancher come face to face after seven long years apart, and sparks will fly! Will it ignite a burning passion or start a fire that burns everything they love to the ground? --------------------------- Jake is left disabled after his last tour overseas, but his newfound freedom away from the military gives him a chance to return home to Audrey, the girl who got away seven years ago. Audrey, who between keeping the ranch afloat and fighting off oilmen, hasn't thought much about men, let alone Jake Henderson, for a long time. So when he shows up uninvited in her somewhat peaceful life, what is she to do? Will Audrey be able to forgive Jake for abandoning her when she needed him most, and will Jake be strong enough to overcome both the physical and mental wounds that burden him? ---------------------------- Join me on a journey of exploring a relationship between two passionate and strong-willed people pursuing their dreams and one another, working to find a balance between love and freedom. Set in rural small-town America, this will be a story filled with hope, loss, courage, and the will to find a way where there isn't one.

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?

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!

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!

"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.

*****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…

Annabelle grew up in Jackson Wyoming on her mother's horse farm. Her father left when she was 10 years old to go back to Montana to own and operate her late grandfather's ranch. They saw him a few times after that but when her mother remarried they stopped going to visit. Anna has always felt like her father left her and her sister without a care in the world. But when she decides to move to his ranch for the summer to learn more about cattle ranching, she finds a hard shelled cowboy who wishes he could go back and change the way things ended up between him and his daughters.

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!

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.

On their way to a resort for vacation, Shawna and a family of four get shipwrecked and end up stranded on a deserted island. Instead of losing hope, the five decide to make the most out of it and turn the island into their new home--and a home for many others. As time goes on, the island grows from something lost and abandoned to a booming, bustling place for many people to come and live on. Shawna reluctantly agrees to give farming a try, in light of a grocery shortage in the city and lack of job opportunities on the island. As time goes on, the islanders find their purpose, their life-long friends, and even their true loves. Read as a run-down island is transformed into a utopia for many.

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