Frank J. Buchman

Cowboy • Horseman • Writer

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 […]

Old-Fashioned Fun For All Planned At Madison Days

Country entertainment for all has been promised at Madison. “We have three days of family fun events for every age group, scheduled June 13-14-15, at Madison Days 2014,” announced Rachel Ballard, chairman. Festivities kick off at noon, Friday, June 13, in the northern Greenwood County farming community of Madison, with free hot dogs and soda […]

Pioneer Bluffs Plans ‘Open Ranch’ Day Art, Fun And Picnic

It’ll be an “Open Ranch” at one of the most historic and picturesque ranches in the Flint Hills, and the entire world. “We are planning a day of relaxing time for artists to work, and for art lovers to watch them and view art exhibits, and for all to have a picnic lunch in the […]

Swine Disease Concerns Initiate Alarm Again About Wild Hog Populations

What is a big time sport to one is a major expensive harmful varmint to another. Hunters travel major distances to Oklahoma, and even farther into Texas, for hunting wild hogs.  Method of harvesting their prey varies from firearms to archery to hand weapons with dogs to a wide array of trapping, but the sportsmen […]

Still No Clear Innocence In Rancher’s Evasion Of Government Grassland Rent

Now, just about everybody across the land has heard at least a bit about a Nevada rancher’s conflict over back payments for his cattle grazing government-owned land. Media sources at every level have touched on the issue with major wire service stories making front pages and airwaves giving peak time play. Each has an individual […]

Varied Opinions As Rancher Reclaims Cattle Confiscated From Nevada Rangelands

The modern day rangeland war saga continues. Media on all levels have been covering the highly controversial roundup of a Nevada rancher’s cattle on Bureau of Land Management as tension between cattlemen, and the landowners, this time the federal government, intensified, not completely unlike range wars of the late 1800s, though no shooting or deaths […]

Youth Competition Takes A Different Slant In Christian Youth Rodeo Association

Helping youth become winners in life. “This is rodeo at a different level. It provides an opportunity to compete above the local events, yet not forcing us to travel a long ways from home. There’s not so much pressure. Everybody wants to win, but we’re all friends who love horses and help each other in every […]

World Renowned Singing Cowboy At Home In the Mountains Or Small Country Church

“Bear is a modern-day singing cowboy.” No sparkling outfits like the silver screen make-believes of the mid-past century, nor rough-gruff look of some “country singers,” with depilated, dirty hats of today, but “Bear” looks the cowboy-way he lives, with his own guitar accompaniment singing beautiful songs everyone can understand and are proud for their kids […]