Show romantic cowboy of west now vanishing am american eri can joins indian as greeter of vacation tourists NORTH RIM GRAND CANYON ARIZ word has come from this western outpost on the north rim of the grand canyon that the romantic cowboy of yesterday is fast becoming no more that he is turning in increasing numbers from punching cows to soothing dudes the leather chapped cowpuncher it seems has joined the indian in forming a welcoming committee for the tourist word of this sudden crashing of a great american institution comes from a man who ought to know texas al A phillips texas born and texas bred and a former cowboy now turned dude wrangler A al rode the range at fourteen and drew a mans wages for it he can ride a bucking br broncho and rope a s teer steer with the best of em but it the life for al give him dudes any time in preference to cows says this lanky saturnine texan als principal chore is to guide parties of dudes on trips ry about the danger its part of their lives one of their few enjoy ments even though it is dangerous the man from the panhandle lit his cigarette slowly and opined opened that dudes on the whole so bad A lot of them make a fuss about things that seem natural to a man raised in the west but youve just got to be calm and easygoing easy going he said youve got to take thin things gs easy with them and try to keep them entertained they like to have you talk to them a lot but that seems to be strictly entertainment because they dont believe hall half of what you tell tel ern em anyway when youre wrangling dudes you meet a lot of strange people and you get some mighty strange questions too one lady said what was that thunder I 1 heard over the canyon this morning I 1 had to say lady what it was thunder same sam as you have back east al has known several cowboys who turned dude wranglers and then married one of their lady dudes several of them have their own ranches now thanks to their propitious marriages for them the call of stock was stronger than that of the dudes although he personally likes his present job al pointed out that as long as there are cows there will be cowboys the cowboy he says simply going to vanish but there arent going to be so many a few years from now more and more dudes are coming west and it will take more and more of us dude wranglers to take care of them for instance more dudes are coming each year to places like this and to zion canyon and bryce canyon in southern utah take e en more cowboys to take care of them he tipped the ash off his ci tte te and pointed to some of his ci c j i going down the trail 1 I like c e he said much easie i I 1 handle than them wild steers sides I 1 really like iem em |