Sarsaparilla and Bootstrap: A Montana Love Story

By Denny Magic

It's 1910: and Montana is still a wild west enclave, trying it's best to catch up to the rest of the industrial world. Real cowboys work at local ranches, herding cattle and wrangling wild horses that are domesticated and eventually sold to customers spread across the lower 48 states.

Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming played host to herds of wild horses that still roamed the countryside by the thousands. "Sarsaparilla", a beautiful young filly from a herd based along the eastern border of Idaho, suddenly found herself in Montana where she was captured by the crew from a local ranch.

Her family vacillated between the Idaho and Montana border where she roamed freely most of her life with close to thirty-five of her family members, running free and enjoying her life when she suddenly found herself in captivity.

Meanwhile "Bootstrap"; who was captured and domesticated years earlier by Montana cowboys, had become very happy with his life on the ranch. The rancher (Mr. Fawley) who was responsible for domesticating "Bootstrap", was a fair and kind fellow who had always treated "Bootstrap" like a family member. "Bootstrap" was taught how to herd cattle, and once he became proficient at it, he found that he took to the process as if he had always herded cattle. He actually liked his job, almost as much as he liked Mr. Fawley and the cowpoke (Gus) who had trained him..

Then it happened... One of the hired hands managed to capture a few new horses in eastern Idaho that included "Sarsaparilla".

Once "Bootstrap" laid eyes on "Sarsaparilla" he was hooked. He'd never considered how life would change after seeing her. He had been so engrossed in his job on the ranch, that he never considered what life might be like with a girlfriend.
Of course initially, "Sarsaparilla" didn't take to kindly to ranch life, or "Bootstrap". This was something that she'd have to 'learn', which included the adjustment of having a saddle placed on her back... And, God forbid... Allowing a human being to ride on her back was quite a shock.

Initially all she wanted to do was to get back to her carefree lifestyle, and when "Bootstrap" approached her, she wasn't interested in the slightest. "Bootstrap' had overcome many other obstacles growing up on the ranch, but "Sarsaparilla" would prove to be his biggest challenge.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0B14MLW3M
• ISBN13: 9798825596624
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"