Dakota Cowboy :: My Life in the Old Days.

When the most romantic of cow outfits, the British-owned Matador, shipped out from Texas with 3,000 head of cattle bound for Dakota and the Cheyenne Indian Reservation, an observant young bronc twister named Ike Blasingame rode with them. Dakota Cowboy-which the New York Times calls "warm, huma...

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Main Author: Blasingame, Ike
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : UNP - Bison Books, 2013.
Series:A Bison book ; BB-191
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:When the most romantic of cow outfits, the British-owned Matador, shipped out from Texas with 3,000 head of cattle bound for Dakota and the Cheyenne Indian Reservation, an observant young bronc twister named Ike Blasingame rode with them. Dakota Cowboy-which the New York Times calls "warm, human, flavorful"--Is the story of Ike's eight years (1904-1912) on the last of the great open ranges. Its pages "take the reader across the treacherous Missouri as the spring-softened ice goes out under the horses' feet, into the still wild cow towns, through the roundups, the prairie fire.
Physical Description:1 online resource (368 pages)
ISBN:9780803252448
0803252447