EMIL REDMON'S COW
Stories From the Farm and Ranch



This is the tip of the iceberg! Multiple stories exist from everyone you see here. Explore the archive.


Martin Gnadt: Sonny Boy

Bill Brethour: Milk Fever

Gene Bar: Bachelors and Burning

Jackie Hett: Pulling Calves

Kenny Stahl: Cowboyin' and Stuff

Bill Glotzbach: Prisoners of War

Pat Sauble: Open Range

Bill Schwalm: Moving Cattle

Tom Burton: Five and a Half Days

Tony Meseke: Go Devil

Gary Schultz: Sale Barn Wisdom

Evelyn Zeckser and Mary Schultz: Laundry Day

Louis Surber: Broken Strings

Paul Seeley: Seventy-Five Miles

Marcia and Wayne Bailey: Rancher/Cowboy

Annie Wilson: The Dog that stood in the Gate

Dennis Hague and Piper Hayes: A Good Hand

Bev Walker Hedrick: Bib Overalls

Jim Hoy: Buchshot

Clint Huntington: Twenty-five Minutes

Cleo Schultz: Rodeo Tales

Bobby Meseke: Piss and Vinegar

Donita Rogers: The Mailbox Man

Irlene Huntington: Don't Forget

Carol Feyh and Carol Michaelis: Just What You Did

Irene Thoes: Hard to be Done

Eula Barrett: Shorty

Jackie Seeley: My Inspiration

Pat Surber: Cowboy Beans

Wayne Bailey and Clint Huntington: It's Wayne!

Ivan and Jeanie Seele: No One Was Bored

Dawson, Holenbeck, and Hund: Dusty

Lanny Ellis: The Picture

Lesline and Bowen: Big as a Bedsheet

Alan Winkler: Mill Creek

Bill Haw: A Conversation with Bill Haw

Dick Poovey: Old Dusty

Rich Porter: Out of Control

Bill Browning: Antenna

Charlie White: I Made My Mark

John Wilson: Eunice Young

Dan Nurnberg: Gates

Harry Whitney: The Flashlight

Glenn and Virginia Czirr: Rocket Eighty-Eight

Bobby Hammond: Rest Up

Sylvia Brethour: A Makeshift Situation

Jimmy Craig: Tall Mike Johnson

Frank and Mary Margaret Buckman: Wanabe Cowboy

Verne Cluassen: A Dollar Seventy-Five

Mel Stout: The Hill Farm

Bill Hatcher: A Late Burn

Gary Rieck: Seventy Years

Milton Claassen: Unraked Hay

Jim Mertz: One Hundred Strands of String

Glenn Walker: That Mile and a Half

Matt and Tom Perrier: About All that's Left

Bill Sproul: A Pair of Gloves and a Shovel

Heather Fuesz and Irlene Huntington: There's a Reason Why

Tom Moxley: The Flint Hills

Charlie Rayl: All of Us Lived

Jim and Marge Lawson: The Harmony Four

Russell Kraus: Tire Repair

Dan Moege: A Long Drag

Bob and Judy Sommer: Martin's Story

Bill Slade: The Old Red Dog

Earl Kopp: Harveyville

Chuck Kuntz: Harveyville Seed Company

Richard Thompson: Old Mackinaw



All told, there are more than 300 great stories available from these folks! Explore our growing archive.










Pandemic Follow-up Series
Created in partnership with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

Josh, Gwen, and Josie Hoy  •  Jim Hoy  •  Bill Brethour
Evelyn Zeckser and John Hund  •  Dennis Hague and Piper Hayes











Grassland Conservation Series
Created in partnership with the Ranchland Trust of Kansas.

Glenn Walker  •  Bill Sproul  •  Tom and Matt Perrier
Heather Fuesz and Irlene Huntington









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