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Title: My native land : the United States: its wonders, its beauties, & its people; with descriptive notes, character sketches, folk lore, traditions, legends & history, for the amusement of the old & the instruction of the young
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Cox, James, 1851-1901
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel United States -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Philadelphia : Blair Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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^, which madethem very unpopular and very ridiculous in their newhomes. Nine-tenths of these called themselves **cattlebarons, and about the same proportion obtained a greatdeal of experience but very little money, while trying torevolutionize the cattle business. It is not necessary to own cattle at all to be a cowboy,although many members of this interesting profession own
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COWBOYS—Real and Ideal. Ul a few beasts of their own and are allowed to have them^raze with the other stock on the ranch. Generallyspeaking, the term used to be applied to all those whowere engaged in handling the cattle, and in getting themtoirethor on the occasion of the annual round-ups; Theold-time cowboy did not have a very high reputation, norwas he always looked upon quite as leniently as his sur-roundings demanded. About twenty j-ears ago, a well-known cattleman wrote the following desciiption of thecowboy and the )>f« he led : If any or.c ifr.ijgines that the life of a cowboy orranchman is one of ea^e and luxury, or his diet a feast offat things, a brief trial will dispel the illusion, as is mist bythe sunshine. True, his life is one of more or less excitement or adventures, and nuich of it is spent in the saddle,yet it is a hard life, and his daily fare will never give theuout. Corn bread, mast-fed bacon, and coffee, constitutenine-tenths of tlieir diet; occasionally t

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  • booksubject:United_States____Description_and_travel
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  • booksubject:United_States____Social_life_and_customs
  • bookpublisher:Philadelphia___Blair_Pub__Co_
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  • bookleafnumber:132
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