It’s an early summer afternoon in the southwest corner of Saskatchewan. Singer-songwriter Colter Wall sits on the bed of his F-350 in the middle of the Canadian prairie at his ranch, the Rafter CW, where he runs a yearling cattle operation. There is a daunting pile of scrap posts next to him (“I inherited them with the place,” he says with a chuckle), several drought-resistant Caragana trees edging the property, and a nice set of steel corrals with a loading chute set in the back.
Wall’s ranch sits on the northern end of the Great Plains. Covering over a million square miles, the Plains are a massive swath of land roughly encompassing the Llano Estacado in northwestern Texas to the bottom of the prairie provinces of Canada and running west of the
