The Long Trail: My Life in the West (repost)

A Canadian icon on his longstanding love of the West and his life in "one of the last true cowboy countries on either side of the border."
"I live on a ranch about six miles east of the town of Longview and the old Cowboy Trail in the foothills of the Rockies. On a perfect day, like today, I can't imagine being anywhere else in the world. Of course, I'm not going to say there aren't those other days when you think, 'What am I doing here?' It's beautiful country and it can be brutally tough as well." —Ian Tyson