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Work in the branding pen was hot, dusty, and sweaty, hardly the stuff of a rousing cowboy movie. Between roundups, ranch people settled down to a routine with seasonal variations.

Ashurst started working on a 300-section Arizona ranch the morning after his high school graduation in Wickenburg, Ariz. “Every cowboy but me was from Chihuahua, Mexico,” he said.