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Mark Lundy

Mark Lundy

Cowboy and ranch worker who has worked across the American West; appears on the 6 Ranch Podcast discussing cowboying and cattle ranching.

Jun 18, 2026

24:00
Mm-hmm.
24:00
You know, pretty good camp cook.
24:01
But those guys would show up, and they thought I was gonna be like, "Throw the big loops and go slow," and all that.
24:09
I was like, "We have 3,500 calves to brand in six weeks.
24:13
Like, let's go." You know, and it was pretty fast knocking them down, but I had great mentors in that aspect as far as how to do things, and I'm not sure I did them justice, but I tried.
24:25
And like the buckaroo, when people think of buckaroo, it's, you know, big, flat hat and a big wild rag and lots of silver, which, I mean, I love silver bits, and I wore a flat hat and a big wild rag for a long time.
24:36
But it was more of wanting to make nice horses.

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50:43
... for a month and a half at a time, and riding and roping and talking about whether it's better to be tied hard and fast or using a rawhide riata? Or, you know, is this, is it gonna be something where, you know, these cattle are all gonna have collars and have, you know, electronic fences and managed by satellites? And are, are we gonna have, um, you know, uh, robot drone cowboys out there? What, what's it gonna look like for the next generation?

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