Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-26
Dudes Of The Last Frontier
Inc picturesque Old Southeast Of Ranches and CUdy Has Vaui Beneath Surge
fasteners Who Trough 1t" Homes A9us

drop of perfume. One called How do we find
Sopri ranch? Are we lost?"
Nope, just bear straight ahead on the high
way 20 miles House to the right. sign on the
gate. Can't miss it. You're the second party
that's asked today. Having a spree down
there?"
mo. tea" She slammed the car door o,,
his neighborlinesS and was gone
Tourists from Nogales betcha Fifty miles
for cup OF teal I've rid that horseback for a
drink, but so miles for tea"
He was so overcome he couldn't even finish
who owns this Sopri rancho"
"A lady from the South She's some rela-
tlon 70 that old fghtin' cock, Lee Sure, that's
1t-Gen. Robert E. Lee. She and her son run
the ranch. She's got a swell clubhouse down
tnere and they say she's got furniture oldern
the Ark. She knows the cattle business all
right, but she gives lots Of parties Fifty miles
Tor cup OF tea"-and left him muttering as
drove away.
AS drove over some of those less frequented
roads, coyotes often loped across the desert
Once saw bobcat, twice deer and once NV
car wheels crushed rattleSnake watched
glla monsters waddling down the road on bead
ca legs and heard the call of migratory birds
These things remain the same.
l spoke of my dude-lament to a cattle man
and his wife as we finished dinner at a ranch
20 miles from everywhere
why not dudes?" he countered I'VE can
raise just as manv COWS as ever even with a
lew dudes thrown in Besides, the beef market
Is iar from stable and we have bad years. Take
ILLS last summer. Dry as a bone for months.
we worked like slaves to keen the springs fror,
orylng up. We pumped water and bought feed
IN the OLD days we could drive our herds three
or Tour hundred miles to better range and
wafer NOW you can't go hundred miles WITH.
ouc crossing half dozen ranches Dudes nav
weil-damned sight better per head than cows
Nope, can't say the dude invasion fills me u,;tI,
Terror. Fact Is. we've rented this ranch tn AN
Eastern publisher and his family for the Winter.
Haosner ana me are going to Tucson and see a
picture show or two"
Ihat Is not the attitude of just one cattle
IHah' II Is the argument of hundreds Dudes
with cash-lined pockets-excelIent stocl- 60 =
laich AS Tor the West and the glorious old
Gays passng-let them They will anvuav
so why weep, and why not share what remain'
Ing thrills there are?
IL Is really quite jolly for the dude tbis
roughlng it." They leave their Eastern sno1y-
pound cltleS, their stuffy Offices and in a few
Gays are In the sunshine of the South They
rice over the range and mountains, pretending.
Ia ghstening new chaps, kerchief and Stetson'
'Aat they are cowboys out of a novel In the
evenings they sit, rather cautiously about
bridge or poker table before blazing log fires
Before they toddle off to bed in a room such
as New York hotel would boast they have
5ony nippy' or hot chocolate, and listen to
radio market quotations.
few ranches preserve the real Western
spirit Even a smaller number offer true
roughing it." with actual experience in riding
the range, roping, branding post-hole digging
and hide tanning All these activities are for
the fun OF it. participated in by the dude if he
or she feels like it.
I>HE Bar Ranch near Tombstone is one
OF these Over it roam cattle and dudes
The southern end of this ranch is against
Mexico, and the northern takes part of the
Dragon Mountains. In the old days stage.
coacnes stopped at station on this ranch,
but now the main club house is ON the snot
Scattered about the main dwelling are bunk