Country Lifestyles

By Clay Reid Well, as you see by my headline, it’s another hard day for Clay as a writer. Writing is tough, and it’s even tougher when you’re stupid. No, John Wayne did not say […]

By Jessica Crabtree An increased heart rate, high blood pressure, shallow breathing, an increase in body temperature, and sweating cause the brain to redirect energy and blood from the internal organs to the muscle. The […]

By Jessica Crabtree  In the June 2018 issue of NTFR we featured a bright young photographer from Australia, Alice Mabin. Mabin is New Zealand born, and raised on a station with cattle, sheep and deer, […]

By Clay Reid  Last month I wrote about how I was accidentally led into the poacher life. Today I will tell of another time I was led astray as a dumb kid. Actually I wrote […]

By Jessica Crabtree Imagine a career where there are lights, cameras, action and a star-studded number of participants. Think of a large crowd, high-energy music, excitement and the payoff being in laughter and applause. That […]

By Lacey Newlin Serves: 7-8 Time: 1 hour Ingredients: 1 pound refrigerated pizza crust dough (Or make your own if you like) 24 medium cloves garlic (About 2 heads), separated, peel left on 1 tbsp […]

Bu Judy Wade Red Doyal only sustained two injuries in his entire rodeo career, one in high school and one in Pendleton in 1967. He broke his collar bone in a high school rodeo and […]

By Clay Reid Poacher: A person who, to most people, ranks right up there with cow thieves and people who slap their mama. As I grow older, I guess I can say I kind of […]

By Jessica Crabtree North Texas is fortunate to have a profound number of unique individuals as its inhabitants, some of whom are even famous. One in particular came to live in Texas 17 years ago […]