Globetrotting wrangler JB Zielke reveals what he's learned from ranching on the most remote farms on Earth

A globetrotting cattle rancher who goes by nan sanction 'The Lost Cowboy' has gone crossed six continents to beryllium that you tin wrangle cattle anyplace connected satellite earth.

JB Zielke is an author, filmmaker, and agriculture expert, chronicles his travels connected societal media, successful short films and successful an award-winning caller book.

He grew up successful nan accepted ranching states of Colorado and Wyoming but has taken his interests crossed nan globe arsenic a rancher-for-hire. 

'Pretty overmuch everyplace I went it was, 'Can you return this wild, angry, spoiled, half-psycho equine that cipher has touched successful 3 years and get a day's activity done connected it?' Zielke says.

After a little profession arsenic a bull rider, he has dedicated his life to herding successful immoderate of nan astir far-reaching and small visited places connected nan planet. 

When he's been there, he's been delighted to spot that galore of his locales person resembled nan aged westbound successful nan United States.

'People sometimes opportunity they were calved 100 years excessively late. They are nostalgic for a clip gone by,' Zielke told Cowboy State Daily. 

'Well, nan truth of nan matter is you still tin spell back. It still exists. These places are benignant of for illustration clip capsules that you tin jump backmost into.

He's visited each continent but Antartica successful an effort to ply his trade.  

'Meeting group pinch hustle and thrust was very motivational to me. People for illustration that everyplace that accommodate successful different ways to nan manus they are dealt,' Zielke said. 

'I learned a batch from them. It's thing I aspire to beryllium each day.' 

Some of his favourite experiences travel from visits to Australia's Cape Town successful Queensland arsenic early arsenic erstwhile he was 21. 

'The biggest point astir my clip successful Australia is it made maine recognize really large nan world is. It was difficult for maine to wrap my mind astir really galore much group location are retired there,' Zielke said. 

He often had to herd feral cattle utilizing trucks and motorbikes successful a style he compared to nan movie Mad Max while surviving waters infested pinch crocodiles and being chased by chaotic dogs. 

The biggest problem, he says, was a breed of greenish ants.

'The greenish ants sewage me. You ever deliberation it will beryllium nan biggest animals that are nan astir dangerous,' Zielke said. 

'I had been warned astir them and I conjecture I didn't cognize astir them aliases really they behaved. I was conscionable told ne'er to deed 1 of their nests aliases they would each travel retired and tear you up.' 

He said nan ultimately, nan travel showed him location was much to nan world than conscionable his backyard. 

'To spell to nan different broadside of nan world and meet nan group there. To spot them moving successful agriculture and doing things successful a very different measurement but still get nan same, if not better, outcomes than nan measurement I knew to do things.'

Those amended outcomes near him pinch nan estimation for being a 'ringer,' aliases an master cattle wrangler, arsenic good arsenic a devil-may-care cognition and a desire to spot nan world arsenic a cattle herder immoderate more.   

His adjacent experience, connected a five-star ranch successful Argentina, was little to his liking, saying he didn't get to activity pinch horses capable and everything was excessively fancy. He besides didn't for illustration nan measurement nan state treated its horses, comparing it to really immoderate group dainty their cars.

'I did spot that awesome horsemanship and equine civilization Argentina is known for. But also, for nan first time, I saw a civilization wherever horses were not held successful precocious regard,' Zielke said. 

'I saw a batch of things I did not work together with. They were beautiful difficult connected their horses and heavy-handed successful their training techniques.'

Zielke was besides robbed for nan first clip while surviving successful Argentina

He past traveled to activity successful Sweden, wherever he recovered himself disenchanted pinch nan societal antiauthoritarian government's infringement successful agriculture.

'It was eye-opening to spell from wherever things were beautiful lawless, wherever policing and authorities had nary spot astatine all, to nan different extremity of nan spectrum wherever authorities was stepping into your life each time and telling you what to do,' Zielke said. 

He described nan state arsenic 'a batch of agrarian Americans' worst nightmare'.  

'Sweden is simply a state wherever tons of decisions are retired of your hands and authorities has a batch much powerfulness and power complete your life.'

From there, he went to South Africa arsenic a trainer for young workplace workers, wherever again he was robbed.

'My recreation acquisition was making maine much callus toward strangers — possibly not quickly enough,' he said. 

'It's unfortunate because immoderate of nan nicest group and coolest things I've done only happened because of trusting a stranger. But aggregate times I was hoodwinked. I learned to put up a defender wherever I don't spot for illustration I utilized to, but still effort to retrieve nan world is mostly afloat of bully people.'

Once there, however, he recovered nan continent beautiful and 'soul-shaking,' contempt having to woody pinch runaway horses astatine 1 point. 

'There is conscionable an ever-present emotion hanging complete you nan full time, an inherent consciousness of really aged nan civilization is. How this onshore feels for illustration nan opening of clip and still coming is simple. Food, measurement of life, it's each incredibly elemental successful nan champion measurement possible.'

He besides saw a ton of death, which taught him nan instruction of ever trying to unrecorded successful nan present.  

After returning to activity successful Wyoming, he took connected a wintertime occupation successful Mexico, which he recovered vulnerable and reliable activity and dealing pinch powerful cartels.

'I do my champion not to scare group from going there. Yes, location is danger. Yes, I was successful nan mediate of an existent shootout,' Zielke said. 

'But location was besides immoderate of nan astir beautiful places I've ever been and astonishing group I've ever met down there. I wish group would sojourn and spot existent Mexico. I don't mean Cancun and nan insulated all-inclusive places.'

Some of his astir caller activity happened successful Mongolia, wherever he recovered that nan civilization does respect horses. 

'Mongolian horses, I think, are technically not really horses astatine all. They are much intimately related to donkeys,' Zielke said. 

'They are really small. One absorbing point I noticed was they would bob their caput perpetually — up and down — while opinionated still. At first, I thought they were trying to get flies disconnected their face, but location were nary flies around, truthful it wasn't that. They each did it and I ne'er figured retired why.'

Eventually, nan pandemic slowed down his globetrotting and he now shoots euphony videos for a institution he founded and owns retired of Texas. 

He advises group pinch dreams for illustration his to conscionable springiness it a changeable and go. 

'I mean, waste your worldly and move to Mongolia aliases Argentina. They don't person phones. They don't cheque their email. A batch of them can't publication and write. They're riding horses to get their nutrient and everything else,' he said. 

Zielke worries that places for illustration those whitethorn not beryllium nan shroud of olden days they erstwhile were.

'And, unfortunately, a batch of them are vanishing. So to me, it was important to spell spot those earlier they were agelong gone.'