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Your Mule Is at Isabel’s House

Published September 12, 2019

Last night I was sitting in the Split Rock Bar and Cafe celebrating my arrival in a busted uranium town when a man walks in and says, “your mule is over at Isabel’s house.” Isabel owns the bar.

Wide open eastern Wyoming landscape where mule Cracker escaped at night
Eastern Wyoming: a hell of a place to lose a mule….

I put down my beer.

Oh.

So I climb in to the man’s car and he drives me out in to the night and we go down a long driveway and… Continue reading →

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How Cracker Cracked my Helmet Not my Skull

Published June 15, 2019

I got the space man’s view of the rodeo. There I was way high up in the air above my mule Cracker. There he was way down below me bucking his guts out. Then gravity took over and I re-entered the earth head first like a faulty Russian rocket. CRACK! Landed right on my skull….which was snugged up in my helmet.

Troxel riding helmet split into three pieces after Bernie Harberts thrown from mule Cracker in Brandenburg Kentucky
The wreckage: That’s Cracker’s saddle and my Troxel helmet – split in to 3 pieces.
Close up crack in Troxel helmet showing impact that could have fractured Bernie Harberts skull
This could have… Continue reading →
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