Ranch Women Defined

Ranch women understand and continue the process of nurturing all aspects of a ranch, a community, a state, a nation, and global affairs. They understand diplomacy without compromising integrity. They have skills to take on the most precarious situations to protect against the most hostile situations.

There are ranch women running large corporations maintaining a second home in their closest metropolis while communicating day to day activities to the ranch using the latest technologies called the Internet and cellular or satellite phones. Some are lawyers in private practice, bankers, financial advisors, doctors, judges, veterinarians, fire fighters, EMT's, commercial pilots, and serving in the United States military abroad the world. Others are running ranches single handed due to a crippling accident of their husband or to the death of their husband or through dissolution of the marriage. In history, ranchers were known to send their daughters back East to all girls schools to be educated properly to become the matriarch of the ranch.  This practice still holds true today as children are sent to the best colleges to obtain the highest quality education.

Today's ranch woman can be found riding in the most adverse weather conditions to save a newborn calf or colt, having veterinary skills to correct prolapsed cows or stitch up a wire cut on a horse, shooting rabid skunks,bears, and rattle snakes. Some apply doctors skills stopping bleeding, setting bones or treating hypothermia until they reach a hospital sometimes over a hundred miles away. You can be assured a meal for everyone will be baking in the oven, cooking in a crockpot or smoking in a pit to be ready to eat when everyone gets in from a day's work.

Ranch women have grit, determination, and compassion, for their life as a rancher. They work to keep the general public informed of the process the ranch products are cared for, developed, and partnerships to ensure the end product is consumer safe and meets the eye and palates. Ranch women are stewards of the land.

Death is never easy to process expected or unexpected. You will find ranch women who are strong in moving forward and helping a neighbor through tough times regardless if the loss is through an accident, disease, old age, a spouse, a child, close friends or pillars of communities. Their faith is strong.

In short, a ranch woman could be described as in the OSU Cowboy Code.

Being a cowboy isn't in your clothes. It’s in your character. It’s the passion to do what’s right even when it’s hard. It’s ending the day knowing you gave it everything you had. It’s standing out by standing tall. It’s integrity. And honor. And courage to see hope even when you’re the only one who sees it. +1.

+1. Oklahoma State University - AreYouACowboy.com