Gruff, grizzled cowboys for as far as the eye could see, their chiseled bodies shining with the sweat of a hard days work, their bushy beards ashen with the soot from cigarettes clenched between their teeth.Ī group of burly blond cowboys led Jesse to the outskirts of the ranch, where they tied him to a wood post. When Jessie stepped through the cast iron gates, every man he saw looked like the most cartoonishly masculine version of themselves.
Jesse didn’t want the ranch… and he certainly didn’t want to be a cowboy.īut Buckhorse was notorious for cranking out cowboys like nobodies business. Dad sent him there as last ditch effort to turn his eldest son into a “real cowboy” before the old man kicked the bucket and his own ranch fell into Jesse’s care. Jesse pulled up to Buckhorse ranch with a mix of fear and contempt.
