The Trail Drivers of Texas: Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys and Their Experiences on the Range and on the Trail During the Days that Tried Men's Souls--true Narratives Related by Real Cow-punchers and Men who Fathered the Cattle Industry in TexasJohn Marvin Hunter, George Washington Saunders These are the chronicles of the trail drivers of Texas, those rugged men and, sometimes, women who drove cattle and horses up the trails from Texas to northern markets in the late 1800s. Gleaned from members of the Old Time Trail Drivers' Association, these hundreds of real-life stories--some humorous, some chilling, some rambling, all interesting-form an invaluable cornerstone to the literature, history, and folklore of Texas and the West.--Amazon.com. |
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... wagons , five yoke to a wagon , and started on the 13th day of April , 1852 , for the California gold mines . We crossed the Mississippi River at Savannah , Holt County ,. 48 THE TRAIL DRIVERS OF TEXAS.
... wagons , five yoke to a wagon , and started on the 13th day of April , 1852 , for the California gold mines . We crossed the Mississippi River at Savannah , Holt County ,. 48 THE TRAIL DRIVERS OF TEXAS.
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... wagon . When we reached this place the trees were all dead , so we took all the oxen loose except the wheel team and fastened them . to the rear axle and let the wagon down into the canyon . It required half a day to let our seven wagons ...
... wagon . When we reached this place the trees were all dead , so we took all the oxen loose except the wheel team and fastened them . to the rear axle and let the wagon down into the canyon . It required half a day to let our seven wagons ...
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... wagon load of kerosene and sulphur with which to fight the disease . When we reached Cow Creek we turned the herds loose and began building what is known as the Crow Ranch . I worked here thirty days and it seemed like thirty years ...
... wagon load of kerosene and sulphur with which to fight the disease . When we reached Cow Creek we turned the herds loose and began building what is known as the Crow Ranch . I worked here thirty days and it seemed like thirty years ...
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... wagon , went to Seven Rivers and found what I was looking for , so that completed my outfit . In a few days I went up the Pecos to the spring round - up and took charge of the steer herd of twenty- five hundred three's and up . George ...
... wagon , went to Seven Rivers and found what I was looking for , so that completed my outfit . In a few days I went up the Pecos to the spring round - up and took charge of the steer herd of twenty- five hundred three's and up . George ...
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... wagon and camp it up the river and for the cook to have dinner early , for I would be there about ten o'clock . I finished my job at the postoffice , mounted my horse and pulled out for camp . When I got up within two hun- dred yards of ...
... wagon and camp it up the river and for the cook to have dinner early , for I would be there about ten o'clock . I finished my job at the postoffice , mounted my horse and pulled out for camp . When I got up within two hun- dred yards of ...
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Popular passages
Page 202 - Let Fate do her worst ; there are relics of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy ; Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear. Long, long be my heart with such memories filled ! Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 931 - Come along, boys, and listen to my tale, I'll tell you of my troubles on the old Chisholm trail. Coma ti yi youpy, youpy ya, youpy ya, Coma ti yi youpy, youpy ya.
Page 850 - I'm mean or small. Make me as wide and open as the plains, As honest as the horse between my knees, Clean as the wind that blows behind the rains, Free as the hawk that circles down the breeze. Forgive me, Lord, when sometimes I forget; You know about the reasons that are hid, You know about the things that gall and fret, You know me better than my mother did. Just keep an eye on all that's done and said. Just right me sometimes, when I turn aside, And guide me on the long, dim trail ahead. That...
Page 933 - Go in' back to town to draw my money, Goin' back home to see my honey. With my knees in the saddle and my seat in sky I'll quit punching cows in the sweet by and by. Coma ti yi youpy, youpy ya, youpy ya, Coma ti yi youpy, youpy ya.
Page 850 - em say I'm mean or small! Make me as big and open as the plains, As honest as the hawse between my knees, Clean as the wind that blows behind the rains, Free as the hawk that circles down the breeze.
Page 933 - I went to the boss to draw my roll, He had it figgered out I was nine dollars in the hole.
Page 1009 - O'er life's uneven road; And when unconquered sorrows, The weary hours invest, The kindly words of old friends Are always found the best. There are no friends like old friends, To calm our frequent fears, When shadows fall and deepen Through life's declining years ; And when our faltering footsteps Approach the Great Divide, We'll long to meet the old friends Who wait the other side.
Page 366 - IT is my joy in life to find At every turning of the road, The strong arm of a comrade kind To help me onward with my load : And since I have no gold to give, And love alone must make amends, My only prayer is, while I live, — God make me worthy of my friends!
Page 850 - You understand the things that gall and fret; You know me better than my mother did. Just keep an eye on all that's done and said And right me, sometimes, when I turn aside, And guide me on the long, dim trail ahead That stretches upward toward the Great Divide.
Page 932 - My hoss throwed me off at the creek called Mud, My hoss throwed me off round the 2-U herd. Last time I saw him he was going cross the level A-kicking up his heels and a-running like the devil. It's cloudy in the West, a-looking like rain, And my damned old slicker's in the wagon again. Crippled my boss, I don't know how, Ropin