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Greenwood, Kathy L.,--1949- , Ranchers--New Mexico--Carlsbad Region--Biography, Ranch life--New Mexico--Carlsbad Region, Heart-Diamond Ranch (N.M.) , Carlsbad Region (N.M.)--Social life and customs, Hart family, Carlesbad Region (N.M.)--Biography.
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1990
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F804.C37G73 1990eb
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978.9/42
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Greenwood, Kathy L.,--1949- , Ranchers--New Mexico--Carlsbad Region--Biography, Ranch life--New Mexico--Carlsbad Region, Heart-Diamond Ranch (N.M.) , Carlsbad Region (N.M.)--Social life and customs, Hart family, Carlesbad Region (N.M.)--Biography.
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Heart Diamond
Kathy L. Greenwood
Introduction by Elmer Kelton Illustrations by Charles Shaw
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1990 by Kathy L. Greenwood Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved First Edition
Book design by Kennedy Poyser Illustrations by Charles Shaw Cover design by Robert Opel
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48.1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greenwood, Kathy L., 1949 Heart-Diamond / Kathy L. Greenwood. p. cm. ISBN 0-929398-08-4 1. Greenwood, Kathy L., 1949-. 2. RanchersNew Mex icoCarlsbad RegionBiography. 3. Ranch lifeNew Mex icoCarlsbad Region. 4. Heart-Diamond Ranch (N.M.). 5. Carlsbad Region (N.M.)Social life and customs. 6. Hart family. 7. Carlsbad Region (N.M.)Biography. I. Title. F804.C37G73 1990 978.9'42dc20 [B] 89-21452 CIP
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The stories that follow here do not comprise the entire history of the Heart-Diamond ranch. That history is still in progress and will continue to unfold for a long time, I hope, although the small rancher, like the small farmer, is an endangered species. Rather, they are fished from the stream of my experience growing up on a working cattle ranch and offer only random samples of a way of life I believe to be unusually rewarding.
I dedicate this book to my parents, in gratitude for that experience, and to the memory of Vernon Derrick and Paul Wayne Bond.
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Contents
Introduction
by Elmer Kelton
ix
Heart-Diamond
1
Chores
13
Cow and Bull Story
29
Roundup
41
The Voice
65
Uncle John
83
The Wild Heifer
103
Green Gate Cow
121
Going Home
149
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Introduction
Reading Kathy Greenwood's account of growing up on a small ranch in southeastern New Mexico, I kept wondering where she had heard the story of my life. From her ill-starred introduction into the fine art of milking a recalcitrant Jersey cow to her uneasy homecoming from graduate school, she kept reflecting incidents out of my own West Texas experience. In many ways, she reflects the life of almost everyoneman or womanwho has grown up on a ranch.
It is a lifestyle that unfortunately is becoming increasingly rare if not actually endangered by the harsh economic facts of life. It is good that Kathy Greenwood has captured some of it for us to keep, to savor whenever we feel the need to renew acquaintance with our roots. She writes with a sparkle and a keen wit of events and
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situations that in most cases were not funny at the time but became funny in retrospect, after it was determined that nobody had been seriously hurt or even killed. Cowboy humor has always skirted along a fine line between the hilarious and the tragic. The nearer a situation can approach tragedy without quite crossing over, the funnier it becomes in the retelling.
She knows not only the sunny side of ranch life but the dark side as well. The most poignant chapter tells about her sister, who wanted to become a veterinarian but became a ranch wife instead, blessed with a knack for healing. She used that knack to good effect in treating a horse that had cut himself so badly the regular vet despaired of any salvation, and again in single-handedly assisting a wild but painfully pregnant young heifer with a most difficult delivery. The bittersweet outcome of these efforts pointedly illustrates the wide difference in viewpoints between her father, Hart Greenwood, born into ranching as a way of life, and a city-raised operator to whom livestock and land are nothing more nor less than an investment.
Throughout the book, the reader senses the deep attachment the rancher feels toward his land and the animals that share it with himan attachment that sometimes clashes with the cold and practical reality of trying to make a living from them. There is, for example, the story of the Green Gate Cow, a wild Brahman that Hart Greenwood bought in the Roswell Auction and that became the terror of the Heart-Diamond Ranch. Practicality would have dictated that she be captured and resold or, if that proved impossible, shot for being a fencebusting renegade and a danger to man, woman, and horse. But practicality took a back seat to admiration for a
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