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In his book, Mr. Young remembers herding cattle and meeting up with old outlaws of the Wild Bunch on the Castle Dale range in Utah; riding roundups when the Yellowstone River country was all open range; having a tooth pulled by a dentist who put a kneeagainst his shoulder for purchase. He remembers turning strangers into friends, and he remembers their names, from Cass Hite, hiding out in the canyons, who helped him swim six horses across the Colorado...
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Adams, Burs I:35. Dobie, p. 126: "Printed as the author talked ... Black was blind and sixty-nine years old when he dictated his memoirs to a college student who had sense enough to retain the flavor ... Reading him is like listening." Dykes, Kid 232. Guns 217: "Tells of knowing Bill Powers when he was wagon boss of the Hashknife outfit ... The author also declares that Calamity Jane was Hickok's wife and that she owned a ranch near New England, North...
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This book surveys the life and work of black cattle drivers from the years before the Civil War through the turn of the twentieth century. It includes previously published articles and new research, this collection also features select accounts of twentieth-century rodeos, music, people, and films. Arranged in three sections--"Cowboys on the Range," "Performing Cowboys," and "Outriders of the Black Cowboys"--The thirteen chapters illuminate the great...
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E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870s and 1880s. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds that were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." This is his story,...
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