Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack: Accounts of Cattle Drives, Railroads, Indians & Characters of the Old West

All the characters of the Wild West around the Union Pacific Railroad This concise book concentrates on the cowboys and the characters and events which surrounded them during the halcyon days of the 'Wild West' in 19th century America. The author writes from a position of authority, for he worked as a cowboy himself for a while and with them for over thirty years of his life on the plains of Wyoming. The railroad was an essential part of the cowboy's story and indeed it became the ultimate ...