Budge Ruffner

Cowboys and dudes, old-timers and Indians, bums and bankers -- all are subject of this colorful panorama of Western Americana that stretches from San Diego to Amarillo, from the Tetons to Tucson. Seasoned storyteller Budge Ruffner relates anecdotes ranging from a ranching outfit's first encounter with the "Midget Spanish bayonet," better known as the artichoke, to an old newspaper account claiming that the first raft trip through the Grand Canyon...