Former lowan finds a home on the range
Larry Brannian, a 43 year old from Brooklyn Iowa, leaves Iowa to become a high country range rider for Sun Oil in Wyoming. He tends 315 cows and calves across 28 square miles, living in a tent by Crazy Woman Creek, earning 800 dollars a month in summer. His wife Eva works as well, their family adjusting to a rancher’s life.
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