Philip Ashton Rollins (1869-1950) participated in two cattle drives as a teenager and spent six months on the Cheyenne Indians' Dakota Reservation. Educated as a lawyer in the east, he regularly returned to visit and study the West firsthand. He is the author of several books on cowboys and the West, including Jinglebob: The True Story of a Real Cowboy , Gone Haywire: Two Tenderfoots on the Montana Cattle Range in 1886 and The Cowboy: HisCharacteristics, His Equipment, and His Part in the Development of theWest .