Working Ranch Magazine - Index

Working Ranch Magazine - magazine - Index

t’s hard to imagine simplicity without taking a step back in time. At
the base of the Flint Hills in northeastern Oklahoma, simplicity still
reigns over the lives of the cattlemen who call the Drummond Land &
Cattle Co. home. But when you pencil it out, there’s no way managing
6,500 pairs and 12,000 stockers comes up looking simple. It’s the trust
of two brothers, the commitment of their wives and children, partnered
with dedicated hired men who make ranching seem timeless.
“You have to be raised on it to appreciate the total value of it —
raised up doing it,” Tim Drummond says of a ranching way of life. “It
teaches you to appreciate when it’s good and when it’s bad, and to
know the difference.”
To the Drummond family and a small cowboy crew who greet the
sun in her mighty landscape each morning, good happens every day
that the guys — and the gals — can breath in crisp, clean air and know
that the full day’s work they face is so gratifying that they wouldn’t
trade it for all the money in corporate America.
48 |WORKING RANCH | JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2008