There's something special about the Colorado community of Sterling Ranch, a tight-knit community of roughly 3,000 where the breeze is crisp, the fields stretch for miles, and cattle peacefully graze under Colorado's open sky. But on Saturday, that calm gave way to the thunder of hooves.
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As four-wheelers revved and cowboys took their positions, the annual Sterling Ranch cattle drive kicked into gear, bringing a century-old Western tradition straight through one of Colorado's most modern master-planned communities.
"It's a tradition," said Sterling Ranch founder Harold Smethills, who has led the event for the past four years. "We bring the cattle from the summer pasture here to Sterling for the winter, where they'll have their babies."
Hundreds of residents lined the streets, stood i

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