Buckeye Blake On The Cowboy's Path

 February 8, 2025

   My fellow Kid Krazy Pard, Buckeye Blake recently told me about a little known pilgrimage that cowboys are making in west Texas.

Goodnight Country

   That's Buckeye's grandson Luca, age 7, taken four years ago at the Charlie Goodnight gravesite in Goodnight, Texas. And those are neckerchiefs, sleeve-garters, bandanas and cowboy scarves hanging on the fence behind him (I know, I know, some of those terms are redundant but Buckeye uses them all, sometimes in the same sentence). Buckeye says the truckers scream by on Highway 287, but the cowboys stop to pay homage to one of their own and leave behind their tokens of respect tied to the wire mesh fence.

   "It's bleak out there," Buckeye told me over the phone. "The wind always blows and most of the ranch is gone, but the cowboys stop and pay their respects." He added, "There's lots of ghosts out there, but it's the Cowboy's Path and we stay on it."

My Kid Krazy Pard Buckeye Blake

stays true to the Cowboy's Path

"There's heavy duty medicine out there, that's why we stop and pay our respects."

—Buckeye Blake