Frank J. Buchman

Cowboy • Horseman • Writer

Make Easy Hay in Sunshine

“Putting up hay is simply a piece of cake.” This time of year, we just can’t help but reflect how easy harvesting hay is compared to former times.

Rainbow Presents Parade Royalty

It had to be one of the shortest parades of all times. Oh, there have been those in the grocery store alley on our broomstick horse, around Frankie’s Miniature Ranch riding Spot in make believe of the big time, and this one wasn’t as short as those, but it came close.

No Rest For Top College Breakaway Roper, With Busy Rodeo Life

Riding eight barrel racing prospects every day keeps a college cowgirl busy. That’s even after school has been dismissed for the summer. Let alone when classes are in session, and she’s competing in some kind of rodeo event more than half of the days in a year.

One Getaway Steer Only Slight Setback For Top Kansas College Rodeo Cowboy

“That’s the reason we play the game.” Broken hearts can come from not only lost loves. While he wouldn’t readily admit such, and didn’t experience a crushed body organ, one of the best college cowboys in the country acknowledged intense emotional pain of similar sort. “I had a great year on the college rodeo circuit, […]

Santa Fe Trail Working Ranch Rodeo At Council Grove July 4-5

Working ranch cowboys from several Midwest states will converge on County Grove this weekend. “It’s the 28th annual Santa Fe Trail Ranch Rodeo, Friday and Saturday evenings, July 4-5, in the arena east of Council Grove, just off Highway 56, beginning at 7 o’clock,” announced Clay Wilson, president of the Morris County Youth Rodeo Association […]

Pomona Lake Celebrates Golden Anniversary In Flood Control, Recreation

Floods come when seemingly unending rainfall downpours overburden every waterway from ditch to stream to river each overflowing their banks causing exhausting destruction to everybody and everything in the way. Human lives come in harm as communities; homes, productive crops and even rich farmland itself are lost with financial valuation skyrocketing to surpass owners’ greatest […]

Meatloaf And Homemade Pie Just Inkling Of Paxico’s Festival Lineup June 28

Yep, there’ll be the best meatloaf and homemade pie in the country. And, a whole lot more, too. “We have meatloaf and pie baking contests as special attractions, but a full packed daylong slate of additional activities are planned for our sixth annual Paxico Meatloaf Festival Saturday, June 28, at Paxico, right off Highway I70, Exits […]