LITTLE ROCK — So you think you want to be a cowboy? You’ve listened to all the sad country songs you can find. You’ve bought a pickup, been to the rodeo and even practiced hollering, “Yeehaw.” Heck, ...

Probably the sanest ones in the rodeo arena were the cows. It had taken a cattle prod to get them there. So what was everybody else`s excuse? ”It`s a way to preserve a way of life,” said Rod Hays.