Who is Diamond Felts from Close Range: Wyoming Stories and what is their importance? Close_Range:_Wyoming_Stories English & Literature Diamond Felts | Close Range: Wyoming Stories

Diamond Felts is a bull rider in the rodeo. Diamond was raised by a mother who refused to allow her sons to live the ranch lifestyle, only to find her son living as a bull rider. Diamond's mother is deeply disappointed in Diamond's lifestyle choices, afraid he will be badly injured one day. The reader wonders, however, if the mother's concern is more about Diamond or about the idea of being forced to care for him after an injury.