Why By Gawd?

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Excepts from "A Broke Cowboy's Cookbook."

I don’t really know why people keep asking me how I got the name of “By Gawd”. I mean, I never asked “Swivel Hips” how she got her name, I never asked “Tiny Hiney” how she got her name. (That one was obvious, Pilgrim.) Certainly I never asked “Boobs” how she got her name. (Again, obvious plus a very large big brother.)

But nonetheless there are those out there that just have to know.

When I was just a little squirt my family was a large ranch family in Northeast Texas. By all accounts pretty big. Small county, small town. When I would go into town to watch the serials at the local movie house, you know things like Buck Rogers, Roy Rogers, and so on, the old timers would see me coming and say, “Well here comes Lil’ Charlie”. Charlie being my daddy’s name. I would look them right in the eye, square back my five year old shoulders and tell them, “Nope, I’m David, by gawd.” Yep, after a couple of years of this they would say, “Well here comes ole By Gawd!” And that’s how it got started.

I grew up like a lot of the kids in the fifties, sixties, (and I do remember the sixties), working on a ranch cowboying, learning all the good and bad things from the old time cowboys.

Like most boys in those days I thought a “Red Rider BB Gun” was stud, had one, and also like most boys during that time got whupped for shooting my big sister in the butt and shooting the sheets when they were hanging on the clothes line to dry. Man, that made the neatest sound of WHOOP! when that BB would hit a wet sheet! So did my mother’s belt hitting my butt when she saw the rust stain from the BB on her clean white sheets.

Started roping calves when I was around ten or so, spent time with the great Fagan family down in Tivoli, Texas cowboying for roping lessons and room and board. My horse, Buck and me. Got pretty good, too. Course, Freddy Fagan and his brother–in-law, Amy Gamblin, (1954 RCA, later PRCA, Calf Roping Champion), could chunk a loop. From that I got hooked on a great sport that would pretty much control a large part of my life as I was growing up.

‘Course as I write this I am now 60 years old and still trying to grow up but that’s another story when we have more time.

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You can learn more about David W. By Gawd Andrews by going to the download version of the book plus more than 115 great tasting recipes at http://www.abrokecowboyscookbook.com/ and to see the ranch in the Yucatán, México at http://www.rancholavalentina.com/