The Culpepper Cattle Co. (Western 1972) Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush & Luke Askew.mp4

Storyline

Teenager Ben Mockridge feels life in a Wild West farm town has nothing better to offer then horse-cart racing with other hicks, so he naively begs cattle company owner Frank Culpepper to engage him as his youngest cowboy on a long cattle drive to a fort far to the north of his hometown. His mother barely notices.

Ben doesn't even seem to get it when he's told to report as 'Little Mary' to the old cook. The meaning of cook's admonition, "Cowboying is something you do only if you have nothing better to do." gradually become clear. Instead of an exciting, heroic, macho life, it's endless hard work, dumb chores and embarrassment. Ben literally gets caught with his pants down, robbed of his horse & witnesses several unpunished crimes.