My Ranching Life: Lyle O'Bryan

July 18, 2010

Lyle O'Bryan - My Cowboy Mentor

Lyle O'Bryan on his Quarter Circle XL Ranch - 2004

"Leading Man", stunt coordinator, wrangler, singing cowboy, all around tough as nails cowboy and director of this photograhic drama that has become MY RANCHING LIFE. This is the man who taught me everything I know about cowboying and ranching although I will never come close to his talents. Lyle's philosophy is pretty simple - when I had my first wreck he just said 'that's part of it"... We have covered many many miles of ground together on horseback with many more to come. Thanks Lyle.
©JEAN LAUGHTON

MY RANCHING LIFE BLOG

Sometimes current, sometimes from the past. Photographs (some from horseback some not from horseback) & writings from my time working on the Quarter Circle XL Ranch since 2002 when I relocated from New York City to the tiny Badlands town of Interior, South Dakota & started ranching as a complete novice - to present goings on with me, Pony & the cows...Riding across the same land as the cowboys who came before me, I sit on my Pony & look across the land and try my best to time travel. Riding around in a cinematic day dream under a cyclorama sky on this back lot of a western movie set in 'costume' playing the role of my lifetime.