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<font face="Arial" size="3" color="navy">Riding, roping and roughing it at the weeklong Arizona Cowboy College.</font><P>
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Brentwood Magazine<br>
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Scottsdale, AZ <br>
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Ranch Dressing<p>
Students at Arizona’s Cowboy College learn the ropes
“You may come here a dude, but you leave a cowboy.”
It’s hard, hot, dirty work and may involve being in the saddle moving cattle from sunup until well into the evening.
In response to the upsurge of interest in so-called “adventure travel,” dozens of resorts and ranches in the United States now offer visitors what they say is a chance to relive the cowboy life. They have trail rides and even camp outs, but few go much beyond that. However, those really sincere about becoming working cowboys find their way to the Arizona Cowboy College.
Based some 10 miles outside of Scottsdale at a 10-acre equestrian center, the Cowboy College is a weeklong program like no other. “This is not a dude ranch,” said Lloyd Bridwell, its late founder. “You may come here a dude, but you leave a cowboy. We aren’t playing cowboy; when we’re finished you are a cowboy.”
That’s not an idle boast. During the seven-day program under Rocco Wachman, chief instructor, each small class of students undergoes a complete transformation. Its members leave behind careers as business executives or professionals to become simple, working cowboys. This year, Lori Bridwell, president and hostess, will have offered 10 sessions with a total of 72 graduates.
Unlike ranch resorts that provide their guests with extremely comfortable accommodations, amenities and full-course meals served in dining rooms, the Arizona school offers none of these. Since cowboys working on ranches don’t live that way, there’s no reason its students should.
While at the center for the first two days of “basic training,” they sleep in sleeping bags on bunks three high and six to a room. Meals are simple, served on paper plates with plastic cutlery and foam cups.
Women share the same rooms with the men. Since a good percentage of students are women, instructions are quick to point out that “cowboy” is an occupation and not a gender term. Quips one of his ranch hands, “Cowgirls just hang out in bars.”
Spartan as these living arrangements are, there are few complaints. When a student signs up, no one asks the nature of his or her occupation nor does anyone particularly care.
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