Ten Sleeps from Anywhere

Tales from home:

A narrative topography

of Ten Sleep

As I interviewed one person after another, I picked up a sort of grieving, a feeling of loss over the disparity of real cowboys, “They are far and few between and might just be dying out altogether.” But I know that isn’t true. I do know that we are mourning more than the loss of our cowboys. I think we are mourning a world we see as broken, a society hell-bent on complicated layers of rules and laws that serve the interests of those making them which only creates a haze of distrust on the ground for all of us trailing behind. It’s all moving so quickly there isn’t a horse born fast enough to turn it back. There are gross character violations lacquered over with alcohol and money and shifting values in a shiftless society. The idea of a cowboy shines like a beacon of light in a dark sky.