JACK
THE YOUNG COWBOY
Jack the Young Cowboy |
COWBOY STARTING FOR THE ROUND-UP CAMP.
Photo by the Morris Art Studio, Chinook, Mont.
JACK
THE YOUNG COWBOY
An Eastern Boy's Experience on a
Western Round-up
BY
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL
WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1913, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreignlanguages, including the Scandinavian
Ninth Printing, August 12, 1935
Printed in the United States of America
INTRODUCTION
Jack's cowboy life began just as a great change wassweeping over the cattle range. Cattle had first beenbrought into the country only a few years before—old-fashionedlong-horns driven up over the trail fromTexas.
In those days the people in the West were not many.Towns were small, farms almost unknown, wagonroads few. Except about the pastures of the largerranches, there were no fences. Over most of theland the cowboy roamed alone.
His seemed a life of romance. Free as the birds,he wandered over the wide range, going when andwhere he pleased. But this romance was only apparent.No man worked harder than he, or for lessreward. His toilful