College didnt prepare me for this.

Now, thenewly engaged24-year-old is sharing what led her to embrace her cowgirl roots.

But my childhood prepared me for it.

Paige Drummond

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Im proud to be back here.

She can really hold her own with the cowboys, Ree said.

Shes not learning it for the first time.

She grew up doing this.

The University of Arkansas alum calls the work unrelenting.

Sometimes shes the only woman in the pens, getting kicked and bruised and covered in mud.

You see people riding horses and it looks wonderful.

If you could ride your horse all day, every day, everyone would want this job.

But 90 percent of the time its just hard, hard work, Paige said.

I love that she’s here.

She’s the first of our kids to really come back and work on the ranch full time.