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[truck beeping]
[keys rattling]
- Oh, come on. There.
[keys rattling]
[lid snapping]
[shoes tapping]
I'm coming.
My name is Joyce Roach, and I'm from Keller, Texas,
but really, Fort Worth is the center of my universe.
[orchestral music]
Texas is the place where so much
of the entire West was born.
[grass rustling]
There's that sense of freedom.
And it has to do with ownership of space.
[birds singing]
[slow Western music]
- I was born and bred to be a cowgirl.
- Yes, okay.
[woman speaking Spanish]
[orchestral string music]
- There's a lot to be said about older people saying
that my generation isn't coming to the table.
It's a lot easier to move to the big city,
you can make a lot of money,
than to come back and do this.
[gentle orchestral music] [birds singing]
[people murmuring] [blade scraping]
- [Joyce] The cowboy is the number one hero,
the one who steps in and saves the day.
He is our King Arthur.
[gentle orchestral music]
[birds singing]
But the cattle kingdom is changing.
[gentle orchestral music]
- [Mandy] It's not about doing what men can do,
it's about accomplishing the same task.
[ATV engine rumbling]
[gate slamming] [intense orchestral music]
I can work like a man and when it's time to be a lady,
I can be a lady, and that's extremely important to me.
[cattle lowing]
[orchestral music continues]
- [Joyce] The old ways won't do anymore.
[orchestral music continues]
We've got to change
if we're gonna stay a kingdom.
[downbeat string music]
[string music continues]
[woman speaking Spanish]
- There's proof. - That's a cowgirl.
- Cowgirl.
- Well, what are you gonna call 'em?
Women with a recreational interest in livestock?
[gate slamming]
[cowboy yelling] [cow mooing]
- [grunting] She's mad right now. Oh no.
[buffalo bawling] [body slamming]
Do you see that?
Do you see that move? - Easy.
[person whistling] [cow lowing]
[gate slamming]
- You see his horn? It's on your side.
Can you go to the barn? I got that suture material.
I'll sow it up real quick. - It went through that.
- Through the whole thing.
- [Rancher] Yeah, he's got a good hook right there.
Get a stapler on there.
- Are you ready for me?
[gate rattling]
Actually, I changed my mind.
Don't give her anything.
No, because last time I gave a a pregnant cow something,
she was aborting.
All this hair.
[cow grunting]
[bottle spraying] [cow lowing]
- That's a perfect shot. You got Mandy working.
Everybody else standing around.
- [Mandy] There you go.
- [Rancher] I'm impressed, woman.
[Mandy laughs]
[horse whinnies]
- My name is Mandy Dauses.
I work at Rush Creek Ranch in Kerens, Texas.
I am the general manager.
First been introduced
to agriculture through horses, 'cause that's what girls do.
They ride horses.
[gate slamming]
Broken now.
[Mandy laughs]
Come on, little munchkin.
- Come on.
- Hey buddy.
- Get the thing going. - I don't go to work.
I do something I love every day.
Yeah.
And having this lifestyle where I can work
with Mother Nature and see God's good deeds
is worth every day that I'm here.
[gentle music] [saw buzzing]
I was born in Richmond, Virginia.
I have a twin brother.
This is my brother and this is me.
Everyone says I look a lot like my mom,
but my mom and dad were really close,
and they did not grow up in agriculture.
It was quite a fight to convince my father that that's what
I wanted to do in my life.
And so I decided I was like Texas,
that's where I need to be.
That's where all the cattle are.
That's where the big grass is,
and that's where it's all fence.
I did not know one person out here.
I didn't have a a home.
My mom wanted me to be closer to her,
and I had dreams elsewhere.
[gentle music continues]
One day I get to wear the white dress down, I hope. [laughs]
[birds chirping]
Ranching is not just about building fence,
working cows and cutting hay or whatever.
It's a family environment.
Whether you're flesh and blood or you make a new family.
It is hard to be on a ranch.
You can get stuck here and not communicate with folks
or not see your family,
you can just work all the time and go to bed and get up
and do the same thing over again.
[truck rumbling] [gentle music continues]
[gentle music intensifies]
[radio chattering] [cutlery clattering]
- [Reporter] But first, the weekend we've all
been waiting for, the 30th annual world championship
of the Working Ranch Rodeo.
Kicks off [indistinct]
- I think I'll just make steak.
- [Reporter] 15,000 cowboys and cowgirls are
[indistinct] - Oh Lord.
- [Reporter] Louis [indistinct] is there
with a local update.
- [Interviewer] Does John expect that there's gonna be
a meal when he gets home?
- [Mandy] Oh you bet.
It needs to be ready when he gets home.
- [Reporter] I'm here in the arena in [indistinct],
where cowboys come to prove they're the stuff of legends
or go home with their tails between their legs.
Not only is this big business for the ranchers
and cowboys attending, but it's
an international spotlight for the quarter horse community.
- Usually when stuff's getting ready,
I'll sit here and work on this stuff.
- [Reporter] Amarillo is not only home
to the rodeo championship. - Hey.
Did you email this James Martin back?
You want me to real quick?
- [Reporter] We're excited to celebrate the American cowboy.
- Oh, I'm cooking steaks. - Okay, perfect.
- Are you gonna eat it? - Yep.
- Okay.
So you're on your way? - Yep.
- All right. Bye. - Bye.
- So I called John, he's like, "Uh, I'm stopping
at Taco Casa."
I was like, what? You're doing what?
I'm like, "I got steak, man."
But if I wasn't cooking, I'd be in trouble.
[water running]
My dream was to be a ranch manager.
If I was to think of me, myself, that's what I wanted.
But ranching is a family thing
and my ultimate,
[Mandy sighs]
my ultimate dream would be
to have a partner that want the same,
or not... [inhales deeply]
That that has been a huge struggle for me,
'cause it means a lot to me.
I want a husband that I work beside.
- [Reporter] If you're interested in attending the rodeo,
or a [indistinct] Navarro County [indistinct], you can
check out more information- - Your call has been forwarded
to an automatic voice message. - At www.lrac.org.
[pan sizzling]
[radio chattering] [dogs barking]
- I gotta check the emails,
make sure we haven't heard from anybody.
Update any Craigslist ads, and then I have to pay
a couple bills up here.
And then this is all like the farm and ranch stuff,
which I get behind on 'cause all this takes so much time.
[dog barking]
- [Lemoine] Roger, pull!
- [Roger] Okay. [gunshots fire]
- [Roger] Big old boys.
- Good job, Dad! - I'm barely hittin' 'em.
- I'm too busy yelling at Roger. [laughs]
[Dad laughs] [Roger laughs]
Quit flirting and do your job.
[gun clicking]
- Are you ready? Right there. - Oh, shoot.
[gunshots blast]
Comin' at ya.
[birds chirping]
- [Dad] Put some more in, too.
[distant gunshots blasting] [Dad laughs]
- They got it. Of course they did.
Oh, hell.
We really enjoy dove, and Dad cooks it,
and we fry it and-
- You take 'em and put a jalapeno with 'em
and cook a wrap and put cream cheese in it
and wrap bacon with it and put it on the grill,
and cook it 'til the bacon's just about right,
and then, woo, it's good.
[birds chirping]
[gunshots firing]
[gun clicking]
- [Lemoine] Oh, hell.
Why did he fly when I had my barrel loaded?
- [Dad] Right there, right there.
- I don't wanna miss this.
[gunshots firing] Oh shit!
This is frustrating. I am not good at this.
I want to be good at this, but I'm not.
- [Dad] If that was a burglar coming in your house,
could you do it? - Okay, I could shoot
a burglar, but I cannot,
I cannot shoot one of these flying things.
Bird!
[friend clapping] - [Friend] Bravo!
- Why do you always have to antagonize me like that?
You know I'm gonna lose my temper on you
if you're not careful. - [laughs] 'Cause when
you're real tired I can make you mad.
- What? [Roger laughs]
- Your day's not done if you haven't made me mad?
Right. Hoo!
[birds calling] - I'm ready to go home.
Yeah, little girl [indistinct]
She's the smartest girl I've ever seen.
- More than her. - But I, I don't know-
- I'm right here. - Huh?
- I'm right here. - I know.
- She's smarter than me? She's six.
- I don't care. She's smart. [Roger laughs]
[upbeat western music] [people chattering]
- My name's Sara Lemoine Knox,
and I'm from Coleman, Texas.
When I was 12, my father gave me my first piece of property.
He says that he gave it to me because I was too young
to know any better.
[upbeat western music continues]
I got 160 acres at 12.
[upbeat western music continues]
[birds chirping]
All this property was owned by my great-great-grandfather,
J.P. Moores.
He was a trail boss.
He went from South Texas all the way to Canada.
[upbeat western music continues]
He acquired a lot of land off the Jim Ned Creek,
which is where our land is located now.
[gentle western music continues]
[cows lowing]
- Pull it open. - I did, Dad.
- Go get another one. - Okay.
- Go get another one. - I am, hold one second,
okay, shit, please. [Dad laughs]
Want me to open it? - Nope.
When you come up here, when after I put it here,
I came to open that door and there's a big rattlesnake
right under there, so you can see
you need to look. - Yes sir.
- And it's on, just like that.
Just go on. - Okay.
Can you please blow it in my ear though, Dad?
I love you. - I'm turning it down.
Just press that button here. - Okay.
- And just going drive up under to the others.
[cows lowing]
- Oh. [alarm ringing]
- It's going to the others.
[cows lowing] Woo.
When you do this, you can blow that, and they'll answer you.
Just like come to dinner, Lemoine.
- [laughs] And I answer pretty quick,
don't I? - Yeah, yeah.
Okay. - All right.
- How many are there?
- Oh my God, okay. We'll get out and get 'em.
[cows lowing]
[gentle music]
[thunder rumbling]
[gentle music continues]
- She needs to keep it all together
[birds chirping] [cows lowing]
because all we are is grass people.
[cows lowing]
- I feel that there's a responsibility for me
to come back to the ranch and to work here.
[gentle music continues]
- Well it's been in the family over a hundred years,
and needs to stay in the family forever.
[insects buzzing]
[truck whooshing]
[intense music] [traffic whooshing]
- There's a few pieces,
but this is pretty much what's left.
It's all commercial now.
[intense music continues]
This is why I wanted to pursue a career in agriculture,
'cause I just loved being out here.
[traffic whooshing]
[people chattering and laughing]
[Carmen speaking indistinctly]
- I'm Martha Santos.
I'm 24 and I'm from Laredo, Texas.
[group speaking in Spanish]
- I'll have a coffee.
- You prefer coffee? Okay. - Mm-hmm.
[both speaking Spanish]
- Well I'm Carmen Morales,
and I'm her father's aunt. - Mm-hmm.
- I was born here and I lived here for 86 years. [laughs]
When my great-grandfather died,
my father bought the ranch from the survivors.
This is your grandfather - They're right there.
- And this is my grandmother. - Uh-huh.
- Guillermo and- - Isabel.
- Isabel, my dad grew with his grandmother.
Even though she was illiterate,
she was a very good business woman
and she did her own butcher,
and my dad learned his business from her,
and she liked to play poker like I do. [laughs]
- [laughs] That's another common thing.
- I got it from her, yes.
- [Martha] Las Santos name is really well known in Laredo.
It's been around for a long time.
They had the meat packing plant, the ranch,
the fur and hide store where they trade furs
that came in from Mexico.
And is that flour from the grocery store?
A bag from the grocery store?
- It's also the bags that where he packed the flour.
But you remember the store?
No, Fred...
I was too young. Fred did go. - Okay.
[birds chirping]
- My grandfather had pretty much a large portion
of North Laredo and Laredo started growing,
so my grandfather started selling.
[traffic whooshing]
- You used to be able to drive in through there.
And then the cattle and the horse pens were over here
and now that's all gone.
The city just grew out into the property
and now it's all commercial.
You can't use it for ag.
[traffic whooshing] [gentle music]
- A lot of landowners have turned in beautiful ranches
into just big parking lots for 18-wheelers.
But I don't know at what point the landowners, you know,
can hold onto their property.
[gentle music continues]
It's a dying art.
Thankfully, people like my sister,
they're keeping part of Texas alive.
- Owning a ranch of my own would be my dream.
I don't feel like I have a place in the ranching industry.
I'm trying to find it, [laughs] so.
[gentle music continues]
[alarm ringing]
[door squeaking]
[spurs clattering]
- If I ever had a ranch,
it's gonna be that the Broken Heart brand,
ever since I lost my dad.
So...
[spurs rattling]
[products rattling]
My mom never really taught me to wear makeup.
I just figured it all out.
YouTube has taught me a lot.
Even though I do a man's job. I like feeling girly.
I feel the girliest cleaning and cooking,
taking care of somebody.
It doesn't mean I don't want it done for me too.
[spurs rattling]
'Cause the cows love the way I smell. [laughs]
Victoria's Secret.
[Mandy speaking Spanish]
Let's get started.
Go, go, go.
[bull roaring] [gate clattering]
Hi, how are you?
- Good. Darrell Spence.
- Oh, is this the third brother?
- No, Ray's my dad.
- Oh, okay. - How you doin' girly.
- Good. Good to see you. - It's nice to meet you.
[gate clattering]
- So that one right there is two.
She's ready to, they don't start breeding till later.
See how they headbutt each other?
Let me get Ryan and them and they can help us.
Hold on one second.
Ryan, I'm gonna get you guys
to come sort while we're watching.
- I can write you a check all day long.
- Got 15, the 15.
- Ought to start pulling out the checkbooks.
[Darrell speaking indistinctly]
- [Rancher] Oh yeah. [laughs]
- I can write you a check
all day long. - Got 15, 15.
- [Rancher] [indistinct] the other thing.
- Do you see a number that you-
- I seen 15 right here looking.
- Yeah, right there's 15.
Come on. Come on.
That's it.
[ranchers chattering]
[gate squeaking]
These two are yearlings, yearling heifers.
These two are two-year-old heifers.
And then the two bulls.
Would you be okay at 650?
- Yeah, I can go up to 650. [people chattering]
- Four cows, two bulls, and these two.
[cow snorts] Is that fair?
- Go for it.
- Yeah, mm-hmm. - Go for it.
- A little much. - Handshake?
- Here we go. [Mandy laughing]
Here we got a handshake, all right.
- All right, you're sure? Everybody's happy?
- I'm sure. - Okay.
[group chattering]
[birds chirping]
- I've gone back to work and it is bare.
I need a veggie.
Not enough for salad.
Peas. Everyone hates peas.
- [Mandy] I'm glad I found the brownies.
- Oh good. So you know what?
If I do peas, Andrew's home,
so Mr. Military will make them eat it.
[Mandy laughs]
You know what's sad?
Is look how little that pot is, right?
Family of five. - Cook it.
- And that's all there is.
- And they will not even all.
- And there will be leftovers.
With a little butter, 'cause you can't eat
in the country and not get butter.
I'm not gonna let you get this part on film.
- [laughs] Holy moly.
- Hey, they discovered butter's not bad for you.
Tell me about John. - Oh yeah.
- This is your chance.
- Four more months, I'll be 37.
The clock is ticking. - Yeah.
- And I'm just tired of wasting my time.
So that's what I feel like.
- [Tamara] That's when I got pregnant with Lily.
- Oh, 37. Really?
- So there's still hope? [laughs]
- Yes, there's still hope.
[Tamara whispering]
- Can we? - Yeah, he's busy.
- Let's do it. - Yeah.
- We're going outside.
[Mandy and Tamara laughing]
- [Tamara] Let's go out, where he's [indistinct], come on.
[birds squawking]
- [laughs] Now there's proof.
- This is Tamara and Mandy in the raw.
[Mandy laughs] This is what we really do.
Wait, what's he doing?
He's going to the store?
Is he going out in the back pasture?
Quick let's have a cigarette. - Yeah, hurry. [laughs]
That's our stress relief.
- [Tamara] Hey, do you have to lighter?
- Yeah.
- So then if one of us smells like a cigarette
or if Andrew says anything like-
- And she blames it on me.
Mandy's a smoker. - You know how she is.
Blew it all over me. [Mandy laughing]
I keep telling her, knock it off.
- I guess we all have issues. Huh?
I need to quit. - Everyone does.
I did quit for like three years,
and then- - I wasn't me. [laughs]
- And then you were smoking and I was like,
"Wow, that looks really good."
[Mandy and Tamara laughing]
I can only quit when I have a baby,
and I am not doing that again.
- [Mandy] [laughs] So then I'm supposed to have a baby.
- Mm-hmm.
- And then I'll make you quit.
- And I'll quit with you. - Okay.
That's the deal. - Oh my gosh.
I wanna see you with a baby.
- I'll get there.
Do you see me as a mom? - Yes.
[Mandy laughs]
I totally can see you as a mom.
- I can see myself as a mom. - I've seen you
mothering calves, you know.
- You know it looks good out there.
- [Tamara] Mm-hmm.
I don't know if she did or not.
- You got a dryer sheet? [laughs]
- [Tamara] I do in the laundry room.
[gate rattling]
- Matthew, will you give vaccine?
I'll palpate and [indistinct]
- I was hoping I get to ride my horse.
- Huh? - This ain't fair, Mom.
- [Rancher] What do you want to do?
- Look good. It's a full-time job.
- I'll catch 'em. - I wake up doing that.
- [Rancher] Yeah, I'd say.
- Do you wanna put a, when you put that stuff on your side,
- Do you want me to run the squeeze shoot?
- Yeah. - All right.
- Don't mess it up. - All right.
I'm not messing anything.
- Opens go this way, spring and fall go this way.
- [Rancher] Yeah, and we'll swing 'em back on.
- [Interviewer] What does open mean?
- Means they're not bred at all.
[cows lowing] [ranchers shouting]
- [Rancher] Yep, yep, yep.
[gate squeaking]
Yep, yep, yep, get in there.
[gate rattling]
[cow lowing]
Hoo!
- [Rancher] Well, we're really not making gold.
I tell you, ain't gonna do this.
[ranchers shouting] [gates rattling]
- It was a little rat. You can grab the leg.
[cows lowing]
Okay.
Can you please [indistinct]. She looks like crap.
I give 'em one more chance.
If they don't bring back, then they have to go.
So, and most of them come to him or to me,
but they have a purpose,
and if they're not breeding, then they're in the food chain.
[cows lowing] See this?
This is nice, good, juicy fat.
- Heck of a good tail. - Fat bump.
[gate rattling] They've lived a good life.
We fed 'em, took care of them, you know.
[gates creaking]
But they also have to pay the rent.
[gates rattling] [rancher whistling]
[gates rattling]
[cows lowing]
- Dad and I had worked cattle and my dad said,
"You know honey, you don't have to get married.
You can have a child outta wedlock. It's okay.
Like you can cook it AIed like a cow."
And at that point, I looked at my father and I said,
"Dad, I'm studying for the LSAT.
I think I'm gonna go to law school."
And he was devastated.
We don't really like attorneys in our family.
[people chattering] [phones ringing]
Did we order toner? - Yeah.
- Okay.
[phones ringing]
Hey, did we get the, did you send that certified?
- Mm-hmm. - Did we get it back yet?
- For sure. - Nance wants a copy of it.
And I guess we need to do a motion for continuance
on this one.
Okay.
Can I just keep on going about my day?
- Yep. - All right.
What's up? - Hey!
- How you doing, Bert? - Good, how are you?
- I'm good.
Staying out of trouble? - Yep.
- Good. Hey congratulations.
- Yeah, thank you.
I'm so happy for you. - Yeah, appreciate it.
- Phoenix and? - Ivory.
- Yeah.
- Congratulations, Dad.
Don't got an update on your other stuff,
but I'll let you know.
Okay, good deal. - Cool?
- Yeah, sounds good. - Congratulations.
- We'll see you. - I'll see you later.
[truck rumbling]
That was my prom date.
[footsteps echoing]
[people chattering]
Come on.
613.
So these are old school,
and in my family, white women owned
property back in the day,
so this is where they partitioned all the property,
and J.P. Morris' estate.
So, [laughs] "Whereas a certain deed
dated December 1st, 1920,
J.P. Morris, Miss Battie B. Piller,
femme solo, Miss Josephine M. Cooper, femme solo,
seeing more- - What does that mean?
- That means single female by herself.
C.A. Morris, Priss Morris,
and Nanny [indistinct] Knox, my great-grandmother,
joined by her husband E.L. Knox,
and she got all this land.
And if you come over here,
on the first day of December, 1920.
[gentle music]
[people chattering and laughing]
I mean, it's been about a year that my office
has actually been open,
and I'm getting on my feet.
But I gave up a lot to go to law school.
I have opened bank accounts, how to get insurance, had to,
you know, work cattle at the same time.
Had to move back in with my parents. [laughs]
[people chattering]
For Thursday night of the rodeo,
you have to wear a pink
because it's breast cancer awareness,
and it's tough enough to wear pink.
Black makes you blend in a little bit better
and you don't get called on in class.
[both laughing]
- [Mom] My sister was Rodeo Queen
and then I was Rodeo Queen.
- [Interviewer] What is the Rodeo Queen
supposed to represent?
- She represents- - Yeah, what does
the Rodeo Queen represent? - The whole association.
And you have to be nice.
I mean you can't get drunk at the rodeo, at the dance.
- Oh, can't get drunk? [mom laughs]
- But I mean, you do.
You represent the Rodeo Association,
and you also rep represent
the city of Coleman and you represent the ranchers.
- [Interviewer] Do you, as Rodeo Queen,
get to like make any local decisions
or influence anything?
- No. I mean I got to choose my horse.
I got to choose my clothes,
and I guess I could say yes or no if I wanted to go,
but I would never have turned down the association.
You know. - That's gonna be really hot.
Not like in a good way, but like hot-hot, like...
- Well, just you have to go try it on.
'Cause you have never even tried it on.
- Mom. - What?
- I wore this to a TCU ranch management event,
I would get shunned.
- Well, you're not wearing it to TCU ranch management.
- This is uh-uh. This is not ladylike.
Nor is this appropriate for a rodeo.
- Okay, what do y'all think? [Lemoine laughs]
- [Lemoine] Okay.
- Is this the kind of pushing you what representing you
and your...
It's not that, I don't think it's that bad.
Cute. [laughs]
I think the other thing that
women in agriculture need to do is,
besides the knowledge, they have to have patience,
much more so than men do.
So which boots are you gonna wear?
- Fringe ones. [laughs] [mom laughing]
[both laughing]
- [Mom] Pirouette.
- I mean, it's appropriate, right?
- [Mom] That's about what you would do.
I learned working with my father that sometimes I had to
plant the seed.
I had to say, "What if we did this?
What if we did it this way?"
"Oh," my father would say, "Oh no, no, no.
That'll never work."
Six months later he'd come back and he says,
"You know, I've come up with an idea.
Why don't we to do X, Y, Z?"
And it was my original idea.
As long as he came to it and agreed on it, I didn't care.
Okay. Are we ready?
Oh that's cute. - Really?
- You did good on that one. - Hey.
- Okay we ready for jewelry?
♪ And the land of the free ♪
♪ And the home of the brave ♪
[crowd applauds and cheers]
[Lemoine cheers]
- Hey.
- Doin' all right? - I'm just find. And you?
- [Friend] I'm doin' great today.
[crowd cheering]
- Hold on to [indistinct], who's about to [indistinct]
[crowd cheering]
All right, how's everybody doing
on a Thursday night in Coleman, Texas?
[crowd cheers]
All right, it is night number one
of the top rodeos in Texas here.
We got some best of both worlds.
[gentle cello music]
[crowd cheering]
[gentle music continues]
[announcer speaking indistinctly]
[gentle music continues]
On a Thursday night [indistinct]
[gentle music continues]
A horse that couldn't be rode
and a cowboy that couldn't be broke.
That's why there's something special about cowboys,
and tonight we're all gonna be cowboys!
[crowd cheering]
[uplifting music]
[uplifting music continues]
[crowd chattering] [crowd cheers]
[uplifting music continues]
[birds chirping]
[distant people chattering]
[traffic rumbling]
- I had this unrealistic expectation
of having the perfect job right out of college.
It was really hard to move back to Laredo.
[gentle music]
I really, really hated being here for the first few months.
[people chattering]
There it is, Zeke Phillips.
[gentle music continues]
See if he answers. [phone ringing]
I'm kind of nervous about it.
- [Voice Recording] Hi, you've reached [indistinct].
Leave a message, and I'll get right back to you.
- Every steak on your plate takes
at least five years of management.
We need somebody who is a liaison person between ranchers
and people who sit in an office
and write policy that affects them.
I wanna be able to help bridge that gap.
The thing is, it's really rare
to find something like that where you could come in
as a young ag major.
It's hard.
- [Voice Recording] At the tone, please record your message.
When you finish recording you may hang up
or press one for more options.
[phone beeps]
- Hi Mr. Phillips, this is Martha Santos.
I was calling you regarding the email that I got a week ago.
If you could please call me back. Thank you.
[gentle music continues]
We'll see.
[gentle music continues]
[turn signal clicking]
[cows lowing]
[gentle music continues]
[cows lowing]
[birds chirping]
[gentle music continues]
- Hello, mamas.
[Mandy laughs softly]
Who's that? [laughs]
So I've been dating,
pretty, I consider us married,
John for five years now,
and just recently I found out
that I am pregnant. [laughs]
And I'm excited 'cause I'll have
that baby strapped on my belly
or on my back checking cows.
I don't care.
Whatever, it'll be riding in the tractor with me.
So I just gotta, I guess I'm not excited
about all the hard work it's gonna be,
but everyone that I've talked to that has kids
says it's worth it, so I'm kind of counting on that,
I guess. [cows lowing]
I want a son rather than a daughter,
'cause I don't want it to be hard for my child.
[playful music]
So I'll be horseback to the horn
and my belly getting in the way, [laughs] so yeah,
'cause I don't fall off.
I won't fall off.
[playful music continues]
Maybe I won't get too big, either.
Maybe it'll be just a cute little bump
and I can still do everything,
but most of the people I see,
it's like a whole nother zip code, so,
oh well, we'll see.
[gentle upbeat music]
[gentle upbeat music continues]
Quit it. Shh.
[birds chirping] [cows sniffing]
[gate squeaking]
Shit.
[birds squawking]
[flies buzzing]
[Mandy sighs]
That was a heifer. Heifer having a calf.
[flies buzzing]
It's Cupcake. That's who it is.
And that is not my fault.
When are you coming back?
With who? [person speaking indistinctly]
You're not lying to me?
[person speaking indistinctly]
No, I just...
You wouldn't like it if I was doing that with an ex.
[Mandy sighs]
[person speaking indistinctly]
Is it gonna be late or what?
[person speaking indistinctly]
All right, thanks. - Okay.
- Damn. [breathing heavily]
[flies buzzing]
[Mandy breathing heavily]
See how she got up.
She probably laid here, laid here, laid here.
There's all these wet, like mashed down spots,
right there, right there. [sighs]
The very, it's hard to tell
'cause she's all blowed up and everything,
but I hate that.
I didn't think she was that close to calving either, but...
And the worst part about it is that's John's daughter,
she picked that heifer out. [scoffs softly]
And we called it Cupcake,
so she's gonna be asking about it.
But I should have checked this morning,
just like that little calf.
Sometimes it's, I got too many things on my plate.
I can't keep everything covered.
Watch out, get. It's just mineral.
[somber music]
Shit.
How come didn't y'all save Cupcake?
[cows lowing]
[somber music continues]
[cows lowing]
[somber music continues]
[gates rattling]
[cows lowing]
[truck rumbling]
[auctioneer announcing indistinctly]
[phones ringing]
- These come from [indistinct]
[vacuum whirring]
[people chattering]
- There's...
No sir, we should have had 14.
There should be 14.
There should have been 14.
[indistinct voice on loudspeaker]
14.
[indistinct voice on loudspeaker]
[auctioneer speaking indistinctly]
[cows lowing] [crowd shouting]
[cows lowing]
[auctioneer speaking indistinctly]
[cows lowing] [ranchers shouting]
[cows lowing]
[indistinct voice on loudspeaker]
[auctioneer speaking indistinctly]
- This cow, she's a two-year-old.
See the two on her shoulder?
And a six on her hip means she's six months bred.
[indistinct voice on loudspeaker]
- And she, it's a young cow,
but you can see how she's acting,
yeah, she'd probably hurt somebody
if you were on the ground.
She's trying to get us with her eyes where we are up here,
and we're not bothering her, not hurting her.
Those cows don't care about us.
You can see the demeanor of the other cows.
They don't care.
Maybe she had a bad experience,
and now she relates that to everything else,
being around a human being.
Well, it's hard to take care of a cow
that won't let you take care of it.
[cows lowing]
[birds chirping]
[lighter flicking]
- [Dad] Hey. [dad clapping]
Come on, come on.
I'm kind of proud of my puppy.
- You should be.
He's cute.
You gonna train him?
I was playing with him a second ago and I was like,
"Stay, stay," and he stayed.
- That's the way you start, right now when they're young.
That's the way I did what you.
Stay, Lemoine, stay.
- You turn 70 in a week,
and it's the hardest question.
What do you, what do you do?
How do you plan for the future?
You know, I wanna carry on his legacy
while still doing what I want to do.
- She's already gotten a third of the ranch,
so she's a part-owner,
and so it's her problem, too.
- How did, what happened when your dad died?
- I quit college and I came out and my older brother
was in Vietnam.
My younger brother was in college and my sister was still
in high school and Nikki was in grade school,
and I was the only one left to come help.
- Is the situation that I wanna completely avoid
is just you dying and me having to take over, you know?
- Yeah.
- And I don't want to give up being a lawyer.
You know, I love being a lawyer.
- Somebody's gotta take care of it.
That somebody's going to be here doing this.
- [Lemoine] I know.
- Now who it is, I don't know.
Hope it's you, but I don't,
I can't make you do that,
and you can't make somebody else do it,
and it's just going to...
Somebody's gotta be out here doing that.
[gentle music]
- Before he gave me the ranch,
we'd sit at our dinner table and I'd say,
"Hey Dad, Pat, can I have the ranch?"
And he'd say, "Sure honey, I'll give you the ranch.
I'm happily ready to give you the ranch."
And I'm like, "No, Dad, Dad.
I don't want the ranch. Not the ranch-ranch."
And he goes, "Oh you mean the ranch dressing?
Well okay, I'll give you the ranch dressing,
but whenever you're ready for the ranch,
I'll give that to you, too."
I'm like, "I'm not ready. I'm not ready."
And then finally, you know, well,
he gave it to me, you know,
it was a big, big responsibility,
and it continues to be a big responsibility.
[cows lowing]
[gentle music continues]
He entrusts me with it.
But it's hard.
[gentle music continues]
- One of my sayings is my daddy got mad at me
and left me the ranch,
so that's kind of the deal is.
[cows lowing]
We went mule deer and elk hunting
in Montana and Wyoming,
and it was really,
I love that country now.
And so I came home,
I told daddy I'm going up there,
taking my saddle and then that's where I was going,
and he persuaded me to stay.
[gentle music continues]
'Cause I'd have went gone and done it.
- [Interviewer] How so?
- Well, something different.
[gentle music continues]
- I can get it outta here.
These are some photos of me growing up.
I have a few of my dad in here.
So this is a photo of my dad and I.
We were really close.
He's really where I think I get my love of agriculture,
'cause he just loved being out at the ranch.
I think that's also part of the reason why
I wanted to learn it for myself.
[gentle music]
[birds chirping]
After you lose a parent, it changes dynamics.
He had a brain aneurism.
It was kind of all of a sudden.
[gentle music continues]
Everybody just kept telling my brother,
you're gonna be the head of the house now,
and just seeing that pressure.
- Oh, I was 22 and I didn't know how to cope with it.
It just got to a point where horses
were going out into the highway
and cattle were going out into the road,
that it just became an obstacle in the family,
so we slowly got rid of everything.
- He passed away when I was so young
that I didn't really get to fully learn everything from him.
- I think my father would've loved the future
that she picked out in the ranch management.
[gentle music continues]
- I think he would be really proud. [breathes deeply]
Sorry.
[gentle music continues]
I don't know.
[crickets chirping]
[cat mewing]
- Darn cat.
[machine whirring softly]
Box.
[machine whirring loudly]
These are the four that I wasn't sure about
when I was palpating, and so I drew blood,
and I'm gonna test and see if they're bred,
and if they're bred, I won't sell 'em.
W, X, Y, Z.
It's gonna be you.
I have a poor conception rate, and I'm trying to fix that.
So if I take these extra steps, I'll get there faster.
[cat mewing]
I'm hoping they're pregnant. I hoping I'm wrong.
So now, incubate for an hour.
[device beeping]
[crickets chirping]
[machine whirring]
[machine beeping]
Huh.
I was wrong. [laughs]
Two open, two pregnant.
There's one that was sick, number 34,
and then the other one has said several chances to get bred
and she hasn't, so she's gone.
And it could be all kinds of things.
It could be a health issue, it could be maintenance issue,
all kinds of stuff.
[cat mewing]
Come here.
[cat mewing]
[water running]
[dog barking]
[cat mewing] Sorry. Sorry.
[cat mewing] Oh you're okay.
[dog barking]
So I went to the doctor at 13 weeks,
and it happened to be twins,
but one of 'em wasn't developing and the other one was,
and then he said come back and at 14 weeks
and look at it again, we should see a heartbeat.
And the other one, the other one had,
the one that was not fully developed had gone away.
So I had, I had miscarried the one and then
they drew blood when I first went to and I wasn't producing
enough ACG and I was anemic,
and so I lost the other one too.
It never had a heartbeat.
So I don't know.
That's kind of a good thing I guess, 'cause of looking at
maybe in the situation I wanted to be in.
But I do wanna have kids one day.
So I hope I find somebody that wants to have a life with me
and have a family and I would love
to leave a piece of me on this earth.
[cat mewing]
[dog barking]
You're okay.
Comb your ears, too.
Sorry, buddy.
[dog barking]
All right, time for you to go back.
[cat mewing]
[Mandy laughs softly]
[cows lowing] [truck rumbling]
[cows lowing]
♪ Well if you're tired and feeling so lonely ♪
♪ You wake up at night thinking that only ♪
♪ If you had somebody ♪
♪ I'll be somebody ♪
♪ Somebody to love ♪
♪ Did they tell you there were plenty of fish in the sea ♪
♪ But you're out in the cold and you're feeling empty ♪
♪ Looking for somebody ♪
♪ I'll be somebody ♪
♪ Somebody to love ♪
♪ I'll be somebody ♪
♪ And I'll be somebody ♪
♪ If you need somebody ♪
♪ I'll be somebody ♪
♪ And I'll be somebody ♪
♪ If you need somebody ♪
♪ And I'll be somebody ♪
♪ I'll be somebody ♪
♪ If you need somebody ♪
♪ Somebody to love ♪
[cheerful music]
[cheerful music continues]
[truck rumbling] [cows lowing]
- Doesn't matter now. - Oh, shit, there you are.
[people chattering indistinctly]
I'm gonna have to pass some toys along.
This was my favorite toy, and now I know why.
- That's where it all began.
Planting a seed right there. [Mandy laughs]
- How cool is that?
- That is cool.
And that's when you looked at that bear and were like.
- Yeah. - That's what I wanna do.
Oh my gosh. - Do you remember?
- [Mandy] Yeah.
- Aww. Open it.
Can we take it out?
- Yeah.
Don't open 'til when, though, it said?
So this was in my dad's safety deposit box.
He passed away
before we opened it. - Did you know he had this?
- I didn't know that he put in his safety deposit box
of all places. - Aww.
My closest friends are Laura Markson, Ashley Spurland.
- [Mandy] That was my boyfriend.
- Was until he lied to me. [laughs]
How old were you when you did this?
- Ninth grade.
Ninth year. Freshman in high school.
- So the boy's name was Ashley?
My favorite music, something differ-net.
- [Many] Differ-net. I can spell, yeah.
- Such as Jane Sin-berry or Rancid.
- Punk rock. - You were pretty cool.
- Yeah. - My favorite TV show,
"My So-Called Life,"
favorite movie, "The Crow" and "Pulp Fiction."
See, we would've been buds.
- [Many] Have good taste.
- My views on premarital sex,
depends if I love him a lot, [Mandy laughs]
and he doesn't have a disease,
is that what that says? [laughs]
- [laughs] That's so important.
- Look how you spelled disease.
[Mandy laughs]
D-I-E-S-E-A.
I knew what you meant. - Okay!
- I'll probably be married by-
- Oh, this is a good one. - Whenever I'm ready,
but I would like to be alone.
- Oh shit. I think I cursed myself. [laughs]
- You're never gonna be alone.
But it's just funny to see
the same little attitude. - When I'm ready.
- My biggest fear, not to be loved.
- Aww. - Still your biggest fear.
- I know. I still have issues
with that. - You do.
I love you.
[cheerful music]
[cheerful music continues]
- I was staying with my boyfriend
and it just didn't work out, so I had to move.
The ranch is still right behind us here
and there was a couple lots,
and this trailer was here and it had been vacant
for a long time, so we just kind of fixed it up,
put some paint, the floor, and here I am.
Sometimes it's lonely, for sure.
I'm glad I have my dog.
I can take care...
I like being able to take care of myself completely,
but it should be nice to have help, you know,
or someone that wants to do it with me.
[cheerful music continues] [birds chirping]
But I will say that after I lost the pregnancy,
my brother and his wife got pregnant right after,
right after,
and they had a little boy and his name is Joseph Timothy,
and he is the bomb.
Even though I didn't get to carry through with a child,
I still have one in my life now.
And he is an important little baby,
because he's the only offspring of my immediate family.
So there was a child meant to be here for sure.
[rock music]
- Go ahead and start on this. - Okay.
- [Receptionist] And then return it back
to me when you're done. - Yes, ma'am.
On the inside of my finger somewhere.
[rock music continues]
Perfect.
[rock music continues]
[machine buzzing]
No pain, no gain.
This is my reminder. I needed a reminder.
I was having a tough time,
and instead of my heart on my sleeve, I put it on my finger.
God gave me this heart and that's a good thing.
[rock music continues]
Perfect.
When I'm having a hard time,
I just look down at my finger and I know that
it's gonna be okay.
Like I was made this way and it's, I'm not too much,
you know, like sometimes I wonder if I'm too much,
if I share too much or give too much, so.
[gentle music] [people chattering]
- Now I need a meal, but just I have no idea what I want.
Thank you.
Can I have the omelet with bacon,
ham, cheese and tomatoes?
[gentle music continues] [people chattering]
Oh, do I? Thank you.
I was really kind of going for a femme solo look.
No onion.
I got home and started like Googling,
make sure I was like, yeah, single adult female, unmarried.
[gentle music continues] [people chattering]
I would ideally love for this to still remain in my family
50 years down the road.
The truth of the matter is that might not happen.
The cities are growing, and land becomes more valuable.
[gentle music continues] [birds chirping]
There will come a time when you have to make those calls.
Like who am I?
Is my identity tied to this?
This property?
Is that all who I am? [exhales]
I love my family and I love this ranch.
[gentle music continues]
[keyboard clacking]
- There's like nothing that's entry level.
Preferred 10 years experience.
So this one I'm actually gonna save.
It's an international sales representative.
The qualifications are ability to interact successfully
across cultures, basic ag acknowledge,
a bachelor's or equivalent work experience, which is good.
Oh, I already applied for that job. [laughs]
I've kind of made applying for jobs my job.
Because it just takes so long.
I just wait.
There's already like less ranches everywhere,
so then to find a job and a ranch
is like even slimmer options.
As a single female at my age,
it's like really hard to get hired,
'cause usually they want an older male.
Sometimes people don't wanna change.
Let's see.
Well it says stuff here. Look.
"Once the biggest and busiest hog and sheep marketing center
in the southwest."
[gentle music continues]
Even though I didn't grow up living on a ranch,
I just love it.
And I think that as long as you work hard
and love something, you'll find a way, so.
- [Interviewer] So you're not gonna quit?
- No. I'm stubborn. [laughs]
[gentle music continues] [birds chirping]
- [laughs] Hi, Lily.
[laughs] Damn, [laughs] thanks, dog.
I love you, too, Lily.
No, no. Easy.
[dog sniffling]
[tractor humming]
- The grass that is there is not desirable
and it's kind of taken over, and burning will get rid
of that residue, it'll put it back into the soil,
kind of fertilizing,
and it'll also help make way for spring grasses.
[water splattering] [gentle music]
[gentle music continues]
[grass rustling] [dog whimpering]
[truck rumbling] [dog barking]
[truck rumbling]
- Jay, if you'll let Mandy have that torch,
we're gonna let Mandy start things off.
- [Mandy] My goodness.
["Gasoline" by Shovels and Rope]
- [Joyce] We've always had cowgirls.
We're beginning to find out who they are,
because we didn't know. [fire crackling]
And it's a good story. [cows lowing]
♪ Pack 'em up Charlie, gonna leave this place ♪
♪ Turn our shoulders to the empty space ♪
♪ It don't matter if you're gone today ♪
♪ Long as everybody stay away ♪
♪ Rich is rich and poor is poor ♪
♪ And the money you had ain't good no more ♪
♪ Wait in a line, wait in a line ♪
♪ Hey mister, can I buy a little time ♪
♪ Everything you planted is gone to rot ♪
♪ No one around to pull the little you got ♪
♪ Four big wheels, American steel ♪
♪ Pour gasoline on the killing field ♪
♪ March them soldiers down that line ♪
♪ March them boys in straight time ♪
♪ Good four boys like feel on the fire ♪
♪ Bad news comin' down the eggbeat wire ♪
♪ Dance and turn 'til your fingers burn ♪
♪ What, if anything, did you earn ♪
♪ Pain, it tastes like a savage fire ♪
♪ The blood lust of the youth gone wild ♪
♪ Everything you planted is gone to rot ♪
♪ No one around to pull the little you got ♪
♪ Four big wheels, American steel ♪
♪ Pour gasoline on the killing field ♪
♪ Everybody's sick, there's a fever goin' around ♪
♪ Set it on fire and burn the whole thing down ♪
♪ Go somewhere, he's gonna do time ♪
♪ Where nobody has to hear that terrible sound ♪
♪ Everything you planted is gone to rot ♪
♪ No one around to pull the little you got ♪
♪ Four big wheels, American steel ♪
♪ Pourin' gasoline on the killing field ♪
[birds chirping]
[cow lowing]
[cows lowing]
[dog barking]
[cows lowing]