Comments on: Occupation Thesaurus Entry: Rancher https://writershelpingwriters.net/2018/03/occupation-thesaurus-entry-rancher/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:59:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: BECCA PUGLISI https://writershelpingwriters.net/2018/03/occupation-thesaurus-entry-rancher/#comment-616467 Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:29:30 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=32721#comment-616467 In reply to Virginia Turner.

I believe it’s already there. So you may see it show up in the future :).

]]> By: Virginia Turner https://writershelpingwriters.net/2018/03/occupation-thesaurus-entry-rancher/#comment-616440 Fri, 26 Oct 2018 14:51:32 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=32721#comment-616440 Please include “ghost writer” in you occupations.

]]> By: BECCA PUGLISI https://writershelpingwriters.net/2018/03/occupation-thesaurus-entry-rancher/#comment-583094 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 17:55:29 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=32721#comment-583094 In reply to Cathryn Cade.

These are good details that should come in handy for anyone wanting to write more about this occupation. Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: BECCA PUGLISI https://writershelpingwriters.net/2018/03/occupation-thesaurus-entry-rancher/#comment-583093 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 17:54:39 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=32721#comment-583093 In reply to Michelle Gregory.

Thanks for letting us know about this resource!

]]> By: Cathryn Cade https://writershelpingwriters.net/2018/03/occupation-thesaurus-entry-rancher/#comment-582907 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 16:17:48 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=32721#comment-582907 Becca, Great post as always!
Here are some more ways to authenticate Western ranchers –
Clothing – Western men wear jeans to nearly every occasion. Dressing up, likely to wear a nice shirt with western-cut jacket over jeans and boots. Lace-up cowboy boots have become very popular for work, while the traditional pull-ons are more for dress.
Hats – baseball cap or felt cowboy hat in winter, straw hat in summer. Sunglasses a must on plains, where the sunlight is brilliant.
Leather work gloves to protect hands.
Transportation – Horses are romantic, but four-wheelers are efficient for traveling the ranch, carrying equipment to fence, etc, and for rounding up & herding livestock.
Speech – for crying out loud in the morning, study the speech of chosen state or region. Go there, talk to the natives, or at least hang out in cafes, hardware store, wherever and listen. Westerners have laconic speech, dry wit and the men commonly do not curse in front of women. They are likely to address a negative situation with a stranger in a roundabout way, and respond to Eastern bluntness by closing off both verbally and with body language.
Humor – again, dry and laconic. Western ranchers find newcomers questions and beliefs about ranching and cowboys highly amusing, although they are likely to be polite and laugh later.
Water – the Pac & Inland NW including the Rocky Mts, have the best artesian water in the world. The natives might have bottled water on hand for dudes, but not themselves. If out camping in area with plentiful ground water, they will likely have a thermos/flask with a water filter (look on REI or website to learn about these).
Conversely, on the Great Plains, parts of E Montana, and parts of Dakotas and Wyoming have terrible water, full of sulfur etc. Some ranches there have drinking water trucked in, and will find bottled water highly useful.
Take what you like, leave the rest!

]]> By: Michelle Gregory https://writershelpingwriters.net/2018/03/occupation-thesaurus-entry-rancher/#comment-582904 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 15:53:02 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=32721#comment-582904 a great book about a female rancher in the 1800’s is The Husband Tree by Mary Connealy. Mary does a good job of showing the hardships of ranch life from the perspective of a woman with young girls and no father around.

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