A Texas Cowboys Journal: Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868 Bailey JackPaperback
A Texas Cowboys Journal: Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868 Bailey JackPaperback In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer,…
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A Texas Cowboys Journal: Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868 Bailey JackPaperback
In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War. Bailey's time on the trail was hardly lonely. We follow Bailey as the drive moves northward into Kansas and then as his party returns to Texas through eastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri, northwestern Arkansas, and Indian Territory.For readers steeped in romantic cowboy legend, the journal contains surprises.
soldiers, Mexicans, freed slaves, and cowboys working other drives. We travel with him as he encounters Indians, U.S. He and other crew members--including women--battle hunger, thirst, illness, discomfort, and pain.
Cowboys quarrel and play practical jokes on each other and, at night, sing songs around the campfire.David Dary's thorough
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