About THE PROJECT
What is Accidental Cowboy?
Accidental Cowboy is a personal memoire and essay project about growing up in the post-frontier mountain west and how those experiences framed my approach to a much wider and different world than I grew up in.
Follow me as I explore how lives in the modern West have been influenced by traditions formed more than a century ago
The old cowboy West disappeared from the plains and mountains "west of the 100th meridian" more than a century ago, but many of those values and traditions live on. What keeps those values in place, and is there still something they can teach us in this modern world?
It's not just about cowboys
My life has taken me far away from my roots in Colorado, but the memories and the values remain strong and have sustained me in important ways in the wider world. I will sometimes write about experiences that have nothing at all to do with being a cowboy, but have everything to do with the values you learn from your surroundings in your earliest years. You can have cowboy values without having to saddle up every day to ride the range.