Editor's introduction. Lots to lasso --
Eagle's-eye view. The cow boy revisited / Paul Horgan --
Roundup and trail drive. In the brush country / J. Frank Dobie --
Coming off the trail in 1882 / Jack Potter --
Grub for the trail / Wayne Gard --
A great spread. Cattle raids on the King Ranch / Tom Lea --
Some cowboy types. How cow-boys guy a greener / W.S. James --
The story of the cowpuncher / Charles Russell --
Roping wild steers / Charles Siringo --
In a state of sin / Owen Wister --
The rustler / Emerson Hough --
Frontier types / Theodore Roosevelt --
Boss of the plains : the story behind the stetson / Lewis Nordyke --
Tough hombres, tougher pudding / James Emmit McCauley --
Some cow ponies of personality / Malcolm S. McKay --
The daily round. A working cowhand's day / Fred Gipson --
The cattle business / Granville Stuart --
A rodeo at Los Ojos / Frederic Remington --
Handling a trail herd / Charles Steedman --
Ranch life / Douglas Branch --
Wine, women, and song. Dodge : good whiskey and bad women / Andy Adams --
Abilene frolics, 1868 / Joseph G. McCoy --
Cowboy Annie of Miles City / E.C. ("Teddy Blue") Abbot and Helena Huntington Smith --
Cowboy songs and dances / Clark Stanley --
No life for a lady. Cows were our universe / Agnes Morley Cleaveland --
Storytellers' range. Art and the bronco / O. Henry --
Jaybird Bob's joke / Alfred Henry Lewis --
The drive / Stewart Edward White --
Five-hundred-mile horse race / N. Howard (Jack) Thorp and Neil M. Clark --
Old Gran'pa / Frank Hastings --
The rough string / Ross Santee --
The summing-up. The cattle kingdom / Walter Prescott Webb.

A book about what the cowboy did.

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