‘Not for the Faint of Heart’: Washington State Couple Snub City Life to Raise Cattle on Own Ranch

The Johnson family on their ranch in eastern Washington state. Courtesy of Brittany Johnson

Sometimes a city girl like Brittany Johnson just has to run for the hills.

Working a desk job in her dad’s company alongside her husband in 2018, she found herself wistfully sketching out designs for her future cattle brand—the kind for branding cattle with red-hot smoking iron.