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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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l grant inNew Mexico is leased for 38 years by the Maxwell Cattle Company,with a capital of $1,000,000. The ranch contains 1,400,000 acres,and has a capacity of sustaining 80,000 cattle. THE COWBOY. The cowboy plays such an important part in the cattle businessthat we stop here to tell the reader about him. You have heardmuch about him, but little that is true. So incorrect are the repre-sentations of him in theEastern States that thereader will be surprisedto learn from the photo-graph that the cowboy isa member of the humanfamily. We assure the readerthat this is a photographof a real cowboy, whom wehave seen and conversedwith, and from whom wt-begged the photo. Hehas been in the businesssince he was twelve yearsof age, and, of course, is aveteran cowboy altfioughhe is not over thirty yearsold. He has lived mostof his life just outside ofcivilization, and scouredthe ** Great Plains, andpenetrated the Rockies,so thoroughly, that he ismore at home there thanhe is in Denver or Greeley.
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A COWBOY. He IS a real dare-devil on the round- up, and the wildest broncho cannot run faster than he can ride. Hesticks to his back, too, except when the flying brute stumbles when on 562 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. the dead run ; and then, of course, he falls with him. In this way hehas learned what it is to have a broken arm, a dislocated shoulder,fractured ribs, sprained ankles, and bruises without number; but hewas easily mended, and is now as good as new. He has been pickedup for dead several times, when horse and rider went down togetherin their chase after a wild steer; and no one could tell why he wasnot killed, except that his time had not come. And yet this daringcov/boy, so familiar with Mife on the plains, his life as wild as thecattle which he herded, actually went into a civilized community,courted and married a modest, good girl, and established a home. If her ideas of acowboy, and thoseof her neighbors,had been like thoseof many Easternpeople, she wouldhave run awayfrom

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