Texas Ranch House

[Privatetreaty]

'Texas Ranch House' Airs in May on PBS 8-10 pm (EST)

PBS travels back to 1867 Texas this month with the eight-part reality television series "Texas Ranch House."

Okay, so they won't have any Paso Fino horses, but it's horse related (kinda sorta) just the same. Right?


For more information-
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ranchhouse/

Enjoy !!!
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[Pasomom]

Sounds interesting, I think I can even get my husband to watch that ;-) Its history related! AND on PBS which he watches ALL the time.
Thanks for the tip

[baileyholc]

I watched part of it last night. I thought it was great. I would like to try that sometime.

[Abejita]

hmm I have seen their others..Colonial House(America),1940's House about a wartime house in England, and there was Manor House about an Edwardian England (1900) Estate,and I think the other was Prarie house or something I think it was set in Canada and early settlers(mid to late 1800's) They are quite interesting to watch.

[Barbwire]

I've watched it for the past 2 nights and really enjoy it. I'm glad Nacho was fired, he was really ticking me off, filthy slob! He was so surly, I bet he was trying to make the cowboys sick. http://bestsmileys.com/cooking/10.gif

[CarolU]

I read yesterday that it's "National Turn Your TV Off Week"....seriously!!!

(Sure glad they don't have a week like that for the Internet, I'd die!)

[Monty]

We have been watching too - missed one hour - but they will replay it later - we have 2 PBS stations and one is doing auctions - so they will have it on there later .
JMHO - The "ranch hands" have too much of 21st century mind set - setting fences are part and parcel of caring for critters and work that had to be done ! Where did they "think" the horses, and cattle would be kept when they were "playing" cowboy?????? DUH :roll: Which of US that have our animals at our home doesn't KNOW that ?
As far as the whiskey deal - I would have rationed it - maybe Saturday night and holidays - Or how about the "ranch owner " thinking they could just let the horses out and they would stick around ? DUH ! Had to laugh at that one!
It is "obvious" some of the people didn't do their homework - the maid and ranch hands are "hired help" - in those days "just that" - not a member of the family - and the women don't get it - we have only had "rights" for a relatively short time period of history!
Ok - vented :lol: ;-)
Other than that it is interesting to see is they make it -

[Barbwire]

Well, it's over, what will I watch on TV tonight? :( One thing I can say, I'm glad that the family had a poor evaluation and the cowboys did not. Justice was served. :D

I thought it was cool that the horse the foreman rode the most looked a lot like Amante. 8-) (geesh, I guess I must be watching too much TV lately with all these choppy meandering sentences.) :shock:

[Heidi]

I missed a few episodes but caught most of it. I watched with avid interest the last episodes last night. I missed the part where Mr. Cooke was 'holding court' with the foreman/hands and kept telling them to "shut up". :shock: Had I been one of the hands and he spoke to me in that manner I'd have told him to finish his meeting, I'd be waiting over 'there' and when he had concluded I wanted my pay and would gather my things and be gone.

I could not BELIEVE the Cooke family when they read their assessment!

"Wha...? We did everything right, they were wrong, how dare they talk bad about my dad and the experts obviously don't know what they're talking about."

As a woman, Mrs. Cooke should have been ASHAMED of letting dirty dishes sit for EIGHT DAYS and then have the nerve to complain about 'the flies these settlers had to deal with in 1867'.
What a bunch of hooey. Your slovenly housekeeping at its' finest is what brought those flies about, Honey. ;-)

Hubby and I were shocked to our core when Mr. Cooke discussed the brown horse with (can't recall his name) man who stayed w/ Indians and had to be ransomed with a number of cattle. I am quite happy he rode HIS horse off the ranch. If there was a dispute about the cost of ransoming the hand and the hand's horse, it should have been proposed immediately (not at payday) to the entire crew and stated in such a manner as how Mr. Cooke needed to recoup his losses by gathering more cattle for market.
The cattle were free-range and there for the taking, it just took work to get them. He could have handled that so much better by asking the hands to pull together and gather more cattle.
(shaking my head...)

Found it particularly telling that the 'loyalty' of the hands was to each other, whom they each relied upon...because they sure learned they couldn't count on Mr. Cooke.

Mr. Cooke may have worn the pants in the family, but Mrs. Cooke told him what color to wear and when to put them on... No self-respecting rancher in 1867 would have allowed such meddling by their wife as this couple did. ...and the prancing about in their 1867 underwear...scandalous!

Overall I felt the foreman/hands really got into the spirit of the show and the Cookes/maid treated it as a Dude Ranch with everyone to cater to them while they contributed little. I have the utmost respect for the foreman and hands, no respect at all for the Cookes.

I felt the assessement was right on, though a little too "kind" in some areas.
Heidi

[Abejita]

hey and when you get down too it Mr Cook told the Indians he would not bargain for his ranch hand ..so technically he didnt buy his (or his horses) freedom..then to try and take the horse back in payment..dirty busturd...And the Cookes saying the hands didnt get that everyone had to work together for the same goal.The hands were just that hired hands..they had no land ownersip, they got their wages but no incentives Why do farm owners expect their help to work like the place is theirs when the owners wont even do it (been there done that ..really po's the help when its 10 pm and you and the others are just getting done a REAL hard day and the owner has been in the house since 5 ,eating his dinner and hanging with his family..)

[Heidi]

I must say, I had a big-ol-cheese-eating-grin on my face then the hand said Mr. Cooke was welcome to try to beat his butt when he left with his horse...
Let's not forget Mrs. Cooke who came out and stroked the ego of her "big strong he-man". :roll:
...and when the hand left, Mr. Cooke just cooled his heels under the porch of the ranch house as the hand rode past. No one said a thing.
:D