Cowboy Mike chats with Sam the woman. Woman Sam & myself are eating a winner, winner chicken dinner. Each are eating half a chicken and enjoying a blues band at Follow Yer Nose BBQ in Emigrant, MT. Emigrant, MT is in the center of Paradise Valley. One of the most sacred places in America.
Cowboy Mike observes the sea change. For the last four months I had been riding hard and fast with a posse called The BBAR Boys. The BBAR Boys is a title reserved for legend in this part of the country. More about this later. So, Cowboy Mike knew me as one of the boys and now I am eating a winner, winner, chicken dinner with one of the girls. Cowboy Mike and I make eye contact.
Ryan Bolger was my bunk mate at BBAR ranch. Across the hall was cowboy Austin and Cowboy Tanner. Down the hall was Jeffie, the disc golf playing mountain man and down the hall the other way was the women, Sam and some others.
Ryan came from Chicago and is a professional photographer. Ryan and I hit it off when he asked me what my dreams were and I told him that I was not a dreamer. From then on we were fist and glove with the cowboys. Down at the Old Saloon we would shoot Pendleton on the bar, thanks to Cowboy Mike, in the name of The BBAR Boys.
The BBAR Boys is a title reserved for the cowboys of BBAR ranch. An age-old ranch in the mountains of Montana. The show Yellowstone is based in this area. My friend Ryan and I were not cowboys, rather hospitality professionals. Ryan and I received the honorary title of The BBAR Boys because we played as hard as the cowboys we were in tow with.
Back to cowboy Mike and myself making eye contact at Follow Yer’ Nose BBQ in a way that meant, “all good things come to an end” and “see you on the other side cowboy.” Meaning an understanding that I was no longer one of the boys because I was kicking it with a woman. He shook my hand and left to walk around the corner of the building to his business, The Old Saloon.
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