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Last roundup: Tourist-weary cowboy, 69, says it's time to move on, but not retire

Friday, October 06, 2006

By ANN WINTERHOLTER

The Daily Sentinel

A DAY WITH DUCE

Cowboy Duce has made it clear he's not hanging up his spurs.

"I'm not retiring, I'm just quitting this job," he said a week and a half ago as he and a couple of "the bosses" were tying up panels to form corrals before riding out to round up cattle around Brink Spring. The area is just off Blue Hills Road south of Canyonlands Field, the Moab, Utah, airport.

Duce Danuser will turn 70 in December, and there are just "too many damn tourists anymore" around Moab.

A few weeks ago, a Jeep came roaring through his camp and ran over one of his dogs.

"I about got arrested on that," Duce said.

If Duce weren't a short-timer, "I'd have shot the guy," he said.

Instead, he got mad and called in the sheriff.

Forgive Duce if he's cranky about the tourists. By himself, Duce has been taking care of 900 head of cattle for the past 24 winters, and it was only last year that he got an indoor bathroom at his camp near Dead Horse Point. The cattle he cares for are on leased Bureau of Land Management land between the Green River and U.S. Highway 191.

"I'd be in jail if I was in town," Duce said of his reason for living alone in a lonely place.

Well, not quite alone. He does have three horses and three dogs covered in Utah dirt: Pink, Frank (because it has blue eyes like Sinatra) and Peach. The dogs' pedigree is red heeler and white fuzzy dog, Duce joked as his leathery hands worked knots out of a bunch of vinyl rope.

By now, Duce's last spring roundup for Canyonlands Cattle Co. is over.

His exit from riding the company's leased range is something of a passing of an era.

His replacement may not be the easiest to find and won't be likely to stay with the job for nearly quarter of a century.

The big bucks aren't in cowboying.

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