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Wooly Boys is about two sheep ranchers in western North Dakota named Stoney and Shuck. Stoney is an older guy that makes the trek to Minneapolis after the birthday card he was expecting from his daughter doesn't arrive. When he gets to Minneapolis, he realizes that it was a trick to get him to see a doctor. Stoney was admitted to the hospital and his daughter goes on a business trip and leaves her son Charlie to check on him. When Shuck finds out that Stoney had gone to Minneapolis, he heads out there to bring him back to their ranch. He busts Stoney out of the hospital and kidnaps Charlie and they head back to North Dakota. When they get to the ranch Stoney teaches Charlie a few things about ranch life. The FBI takes on the case of Shuck breaking Stoney out of the hospital and they follow them to the ranch. Stoney is dying and he wants to be buried at "Hidden Springs" so Charlie, Stoney, and Shuck head there before the police can catch them. Stoney's daughter makes her way to the ranch, too. Charlie outsmarts the FBI agent and Stoney's daughter makes it to him before he passes away. At first, Charlie is upset because they couldn't make it to Hidden Springs before Stoney died, but it turned out that they were there all along.
This movie is interesting because it shows the western North Dakota landscape. It also shows some of the things we talked about in class like people moving from their small towns or farms on the Plains to big cities and eventually returning. I think it's pretty cool that actors like Peter Fonda and Kris Kristofferson made a movie about North Dakota. I went to this in theaters when it first came out, and it was a big deal to the people in the community. Every show was sold out, and I think that people really enjoyed what they saw in the movie.