Branding Day

It is a day of herding, roping, vaccinating, branding, dust, bawling calves, worried mama cows, seasoned cowboys down to kids trying their hand at it all for the first time, women preparing a feed for 60 or so people, families and neighbors gathering together. To be here today on the Carnine Ranch is to experience ranch life as theses families have lived it for generations.

Dorothy and Forrest Carnine have been our family friends since Dorothy, Ada, and I were Tri Delta sorority sisters at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff in the early 1960's. Dorothy met and married Forrest Carnine and joined the family ranch near Alliance, Nebraska, and thus began our summer treks to the ranch. The story of this ranch is the story of Americana at its finest. that story must wait for another writing. Love, Liz