The Story of the Quiet Cowboy
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, J.D. Wininger, owner of the Cross-Dubya Ranch in Northeast Texas and a listener of Our American Stories, tells the story of a man named John who mostly kept to himself. When J.D. offered him a helping hand, Mr. John ended up helping him just as much.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:14.6 | This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people. |
| 0:22.5 | And we love hearing from you, our listeners. |
| 0:25.3 | Send your stories to Our American Stories.com. |
| 0:28.7 | They're some of our favorites. |
| 0:30.5 | Today we're going to hear from author J.D. Winninger. |
| 0:33.6 | He'll be sharing part of a story he wrote called The Quiet Cowboy. |
| 0:43.6 | I met Mr. John at our church. |
| 0:46.8 | Quiet, fellow, he'd set by himself near the back. |
| 0:50.9 | He would only speak when spoken to, and I made it a point to seek him out each Sunday morning for about a month and spent a couple of minutes sharing with him. |
| 1:03.0 | One morning, noticing the brand on the vest, he quizzically looked at me. You got a ranch? |
| 1:10.6 | When I affirmed I indeed had a small ranch. |
| 1:13.7 | His eyes lit up. |
| 1:15.3 | I grew up and picked him over Bacomo. |
| 1:18.2 | Smiling, I replied, I didn't know that. |
| 1:21.2 | That's great cattle country over there. |
| 1:23.4 | And good hay too. |
| 1:25.4 | With a broad smile, he looked up. |
| 1:27.4 | My daddy brothers for me worked in them hay fields 14 hours and good hay too. With a broad smile, he looked up. |
| 1:32.8 | My daddy, brothers, me, worked in them hay fields 14 hours a day years ago. |
| 1:35.0 | O' whee, that was hard work. |
| 1:37.0 | But hard work makes you healthy. |
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