The Last Cowboy [Trailer]
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Uploaded by DCTVNY on Nov 6, 2007
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"The Last Cowboy" follows Vern Sager, a real American cowboy, the kind that inspired songs and campfire legends. Vern faces an army of adversaries: cattle rustlers, international agribusiness, old age, the weather, and the wanderlust of his own family.
The Sagers own a ranch on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the middle of the poorest county in America. The unemployment rate is 80%. In recent years, the "big city" of Gordon, Nebraska (population 2,175) has lured most of Porcupine's youth away from ranch-life with the promise of jobs, minimarts, and paved streets. Twenty years ago, 90% of the Sager clan earned their living off the land - only 5% farm or ranch today.
"The Last Cowboy" documents the Sager family's battle to maintain their dawn to dark, "Git Along Little Dogies" cowboy way of life. Capturing the inner landscape of the last cowboy's character, courage, strength and stubborness and the outer landscape of his South Dakota home, "The Last Cowboy" is a testament to the debt Americans owe to the land they live in and those who still steward it.
Produced, Directed Jon Alpert, 2004
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Gordon, NE scares me as about as much as a cowboy toting a rifle, telling me to get my Redskin ass back to the rez.
engine173351 1 year ago
@cowboy10234 YOU DONT KNOW YER UNCLES RANCH,,,,,,????YOUR SAD
thoostorm4 1 year ago
he is the definition of a man!! you could light a match on that man's face!!!
tinman1102 1 year ago
@cowboy10234 southwestern south dakota... dont remember the name of the town.
TLcavvy 1 year ago
whare is this ranch?
cowboy10234 1 year ago
Uncle Vernon, Its nice to be related to a movie star!! Troy
ReverseMortgageMan 1 year ago
I know this man and have been to his Ranch many times, Thanks so much for posting this! Vern is a great guy!
agreenamyre 3 years ago