86 Year old Boots O'Neal "The Legend" still rides and punches cows every day for the historic 6666 Ranch in Guthrie Texas. Boots worked a lot of the historic large ranches over the years like the JA, Matador, 14, Waggoner and 6666. Boots was the first regular cowboy to be inducted into The Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City and in 2018 received a Golden Spur Award in Lubbock.
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Man, when I first saw this, it took me back 45 years. Boots is almost a dead ringer for Darrell D, the rancher I used to work for when we moved back to California after my dad retired from the army.
Looks like him, walks like him, and even handles his horse like him.
