Spread Your Lasso Wider, Cousin, It's A Big Herd

About the Book

Traveling from the farms and plains of northeastern Colorado to the capital city of Denver and from there to the high Rockies, this story is the autobiography of a native son, born of German people from the Volga River in southern Russia. Though stricken early (and often) with rheumatic fever, the author survives both illness and poverty to graduate from Colorado University and go on to build his own company and spread into various real estate investments reaching as far as Hawaii. Told with humor and self-deprecation.

About the Author

I descended from Volga Germans. I was born poor and raised with cows. Though sickly, it didn’t get me a reprieve from hard work. I struggled through college, swearing I’d never thin sugar beets again. I started my own company and sold it in 1999. I grind out a weekly newspaper column, Blind Shots, giving a comic slant to world news. I am serving a life sentence with my wife, Louise, in Woodland Park, Colorado, the site of victories and travails. We sold our three kids. For them, we got two sons-in-law, a daughter-in-law, and a collection of shin-kickers.