John F. Russell Even a populous city Slicker will find a location at Routt County Fair
John F. Russell
Steamboat Springs — What could I say, the“city is put by me” in the expression city slicker.
I spent my youth simply south of Denver in unincorporated Arapahoe County. Sure, the county might have been unincorporated during the right time, nonetheless it ended up being the definition of residential district.
Yes, it is true as I ever got to becoming a rancher that you could drive just a few miles down the road and find wide-open spaces filled with cows, steers and wildlife — but riding in the back seat of my parent’s car was about as close.
Horses and cowboys were just a stone’s throw through the homely house where I grew up, but make no mistake, all of the horse power in the region was found beneath the h ds regarding the vehicles that travelled past my parent’s house down Dry Creek Road and had been filled with drivers on the way to work, strip malls and supermarkets. I grew up within the heart of suburbia, and my experience of the agricultural community ended up being restricted, at most useful.
That all changed once I found Steamboat Springs, however it’s likely to just take a lot more than 25 Routt County Fairs to turn this populous city kid as a rancher. It’s perhaps not that I’m not trying, or that We don’t appreciate the time and effort regional ranchers invest every single day. They work non-stop raising cattle that subscribe to every groupe community — even those who have no idea where that McDouble they simply ordered from McDonalds comes from.
The time that is first came face-to-face by having a bull, a bucking bronco or perhaps a calf operating throughout the arena fl r had been the very first time I covered a rodeo in Steamboat Springs. The big event provided me having a solid introduction to cowboys, nonetheless it is at the fair that my eyes were exposed to just how much work and pride a rancher takes in increasing a steer, pig, goat or rabbit.
