Dakota Cowboy My Life in the Old Days

Name: Dakota Cowboy My Life in the Old Days
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ISBN: 9780803250154

ISBN-10: 0803250150

ISBN-13: 9780803250154

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ike Blasingame, John Mariani

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"I've known about Ike Blasingame all my life, knew many of his fellow punchers, white and Indian. Ike was certainly a salty representative of the Texas bronc twister when he came North with that most romantic of cow outfits, the British-owned Matador. . . . [He] takes the reader across the treacherous Missouri River as the spring-softened ice goes out under the horses' feet, into the still wild cow towns, through the round-ups, the prairie fires. . . . There is the authentic smell and feel of the Northern cow country of fifty years ago in the story Ike Blasingame tells."-Mari Sandoz"Here is one of the most gripping Western tales since Andy Adams' The Log of a Cowboy was published in 1903.…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 1/1/1964
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748



Preface



Spring 1904



Filling the Range



the Indians



First Winter



Spring on the Missouri, 1905



Horses



Storm and Stampede



Rep at Turkey Tracks



Cowboy's Romance



with the Sword & Dagger



Second Winter, 1905-1906



the Rough Broncs



Headquarters at Benoist, 1905



Spring on the Range, 1906



Fall Roundup, 1906



the Big Winter, 1906-1907



the Big Roundups



Brand Man



Trouble at the Matador



Back to Dakota



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