Ranching with Wyatt West: Books That Teach

By A-10 Etcheverry, Kristy Romero Cummings and W. Todd Lindsay

Ranching with Wyatt West is a great little book. It promotes a healthy life style, family values and ranching. It is about a young boy Wyatt and his family on a New Mexico cattle ranch. The book is a great way to promote ranching, agriculture and morals. The book is filled with what ranch life is like and funny stories. It is a realistic fiction and deals with life on a real working ranch. Ranching with Wyatt West is a must for any reader who wishes to learn about ranch life. It was wrote for middle school readers, and could be used in any classroom or just for good reading. Ranching with Wyatt is the first of a series, that promotes Agriculture. The Adventures of Wyatt West are in its finishing stages, and hopefully will be on the market early summer 2011. It deals with fire management, horse breaking, BLM, NRCS, Forest Service and many other real life experiences on a westrn ranch. The 3rd book in the series is Rodeo with Wyatt West and the 4th book will be Hunting and Fishing with Wyatt West. Please enjoy

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 22, 2010
• ISBN: 9781481746045

A-10 Etcheverry

W. Todd Lindsay is a middle school teacher in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. He grew up a cowboy learning about ranching and horses from a very early age. Todd has proudly served our country in the U.S. Navy, and graduated college from New Mexico State University. He now resides near Truth or Consequences New Mexico in Las Palomas, Canyon with his wife Shelley, and son Wyatt. His daughter Tawney lives in Canyon, Texas with her husband Lance, and attends West Texas A&M; Todd was a member of the PRCA and other Rodeo Associations where he competed as a steer wrestler. Todd now enjoys taking his son to High School Rodeos, ranching and writing the Wyatt West series to help young people understand the agriculture and the cowboy way of life.

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First published by AuthorHouse 12/6/2010

ISBN: 978-1-4520-8341-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-4604-5 (ebk)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010917427

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table of Contents

Introduction

Life on the Ranch

My Family

Land and Livestock

Valuable Water

Ranch Work

Branding

Shipping

Neighboring

Rodeo

Glossary

About the Illustrator

About the Photographer

Introduction

I grew up in the small town of Carrizozo in historic Lincoln County, New Mexico. Lincoln County is home of Smokey the Bear, Billy the Kid, and quarter horse racing at Ruidoso Downs. My earliest memories are of dreaming of growing up to be a cowboy. You may have heard the song by Willie Nelson, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys; well, that was me.

Luckily, I grew up with parents who were country people. Both of them are from Lincoln County; my dad is from Nogal, and my mom is from Carrizozo. My dad grew up working on ranches with his family and is now retired as the local telephone man. My mother, the district court clerk, also retired. My parents finally bought me a Welch pony when I was in the third grade, and I called him Nubbin. I learned to ride like my hero Larry Mahan, or at least I thought. When I was eight years old, there was a rodeo in Carrizozo, the Billy the Kid Rodeo. My dad entered me in the Shetland bareback riding; it was absolutely the coolest thing in my life up to that point. Soon after, I became friends with Marc McKinley and his family.

Marc has been my good friend since I was ten years old. His family became my second family and taught me the cowboy way of life. At the time, the McKinleys owned nine ranches around New Mexico, and the number has grown since. They presently own ranches in Texas and Oklahoma as well as the ranches in New Mexico. I went to help them for one weekend at age eleven and ended up staying most of that summer. After that first summer, I worked every summer and most weekends until I was in my twenties. I learned a lot about ranching with the McKinley family, and still today, I help them whenever possible. Some of