Some of what ninety-two-year-old Warren Hunt knows about life can be found in these true tales of his youth living on a ranch in the wilds of Wyoming. What constituted civilization in the 1920s and 1930s was a sixty-mile drive away. Learning to ride horses before he was big enough to reach the stirrups, getting tricked into being the primary wood chopper in the family, training horses to cut cattle, and learning to use a rifle were all part of cowboy life ... which was just plain life to Warren. To populate the western expanses, the Homestead Act was passed to allow ordinary citizens to claim and develop land. Warren's parents were some of the early 20th-century settlers in Wyoming and Montana and they stayed until mid-century. Tales like those shared here are the real stories of the American west, not long after most of the "wild" had left the West. Ranchers still carried firearms, rustling was still a hangable offense, and boys like Warren learned the self-sufficiency and gentle humor that characterizes ranch life.