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Where the Wagon Led: One Man's Memories of the Cowboy's Life in the Old West
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Where the Wagon Led: One Man's Memories of the Cowboy's Life in the Old West (Western Canadian Classics) Paperback - 1996 - 1st Edition

by R. D. Symons


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  • Title Where the Wagon Led: One Man's Memories of the Cowboy's Life in the Old West (Western Canadian Classics)
  • Author R. D. Symons
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Publisher Fifth House Publishers, Calgary
  • Date 1996-04
  • ISBN 9781895618846
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian

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R D Symons was born in England in 1898, and came to Canada as a teenager to work on a ranch Here he tells of his initiation into the life of the cowboy: learning to herd cattle, saddle a horse in the dark, tell time by the stars, help a cow give birth, train a cow pony, and endure long hours in the saddle He brings to life the characters he met and worked with, including ranch owner "Scotty" Gow, range riders Banjo Pete and Chuck Dennis, horse rustler Coyote Bill, straw boss Lee Blackwell, Metis cowboy and horse trader Isadore Trottier, and many others His lush and graphic descriptions of blizzards, storms, drought and other environmental hazards, of the many horses he knew and loved and of the cowboy's creature comforts, such as a breakfast of hotcakes, bacon, biscuits and syrup before a hard day's work, immerse us in a world long past

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Fifth House Publishers, 1996. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 2nd Ed. Date purchased on flyleaf otherwise unmarked and tight."The old cowboying life is almost gone, but this classic book by one of the few survivors . old enough to remember the great days of the open range, before the homesteaders moved in with their plows and fences . the lost but not forgotten world of cowboys, cattle and horses, and shows us the West as it really was. The details of the cowboy's life are all here: what he ate on round-up, what he had in his bedroll, why he sang while riding night herd, how he broke a horse. what happened when he reached the ranch head. " 343p. illustrated by the author. Newspaper article also included regarding Symons.
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