Author Talk with Randall J. Burton

Are you passionate about history? ranching? cowboys? Come out to the Stockmen’s Memorial Foundation for an author talk with Randall J. Burton, the author or “If the Grass Could Talk: In Search of the Trailblazing F.A. Burton”. If The Grass Could Talk is the sweeping story of a unique ranch family in Alberta’s early days. Fred Burton arrived in Fort Macleod in the spring of 1886 at the age of 18, short on cash but long on ambition. A farm boy who knew nothing about cowhorses or beef cattle, he still managed to land a job on the Winder Ranch, the beginning of a ten-year career as a roundup cowboy during the open range era. He finally saved enough to buy a few cows and begin a place of his own. Despite hostile settlement officials, killing winters and repeated boom and bust cycles in the cattle business, Burton managed to build a ranch that lives on today, more than 130 years later.