When a board member of the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame asked me to write a book about Montana cowboys to honor the western heritage of our state, it didn’t take long to figure out how it should be done.
Real stories, told by real cowboys, and cowgirls too, the women that rode and roped alongside their fathers and brothers and husbands. And that’s how it turned out. A book that takes you right into the cowboy world. True, factual, and filled with all the raw, tough, sometimes poignant and humorous life of cowboys from across the state of Montana.
The Montana Cowboy weaves the experiences of our pioneers that ran cattle and horses on the unfenced grasslands into the more modern cowboy life that include rodeo, automobiles and ranching behind barbed wire. Within its pages you will see the tough old cowboy riding across the mountains to get help for his broken leg, camp with the young ones running wild horses in the Missouri breaks, throw water at a proddy steer on a sand bar in the river, and freeze with a young girl determined to save a winter calf born in the snow.
Here is the strength of Montana. Wrought through self-reliance, fighting an often hostile environment and surviving through sheer will and guts. It’s a book every person who loves cowboys and the western way of life will want to have on their bookshelf.
Real stories, told by real cowboys, and cowgirls too, the women that rode and roped alongside their fathers and brothers and husbands. And that’s how it turned out. A book that takes you right into the cowboy world. True, factual, and filled with all the raw, tough, sometimes poignant and humorous life of cowboys from across the state of Montana.
The Montana Cowboy weaves the experiences of our pioneers that ran cattle and horses on the unfenced grasslands into the more modern cowboy life that include rodeo, automobiles and ranching behind barbed wire. Within its pages you will see the tough old cowboy riding across the mountains to get help for his broken leg, camp with the young ones running wild horses in the Missouri breaks, throw water at a proddy steer on a sand bar in the river, and freeze with a young girl determined to save a winter calf born in the snow.
Here is the strength of Montana. Wrought through self-reliance, fighting an often hostile environment and surviving through sheer will and guts. It’s a book every person who loves cowboys and the western way of life will want to have on their bookshelf.
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