Working Cowboy Award

ED ASHURST RECEIVES WORKING COWBOY AWARD

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On Saturday, Sept. 21 during the 42nd Annual National Golden Spur Award dinner at the Overton Hotel in Lubbock, Texas Arizona cowboy Ed Ashurst received the Ranching Heritage Association 2019 Working Cowboy Award. The Ranching Heritage Association (RHA), is a non-profit membership organization supporting the work and mission of the NRHC. The annual award honors a working cowboy skilled in all aspects of ranch work and who is respected by the ranch crew and ranching community. Ashurst has published nine books to date. His fourth book, Stealin’ From the Neighbors, was his first work of fiction and was awarded the Hillerman Award for Fiction at the 2018 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award in Albuquerque. Ashurst and his wife, Jean Ann, live on the Ten X Ranch northeast of Douglas, Ariz.

This award is designed to recognize an outstanding individual who makes his living primarily horseback caring for livestock on a daily basis.” ~ Jim Bret Campbell