Excerpt from The Book of Cowboys Comparatively little has been written on the true history of the Cowboy Days and the true histories of the men themselves - though the cattle country has been made the background for many a romantic or adventurous yarn. Even more rare is it to find an appreciation of the enormous part the cowboy played in devel oping the western States and in bringing pros perity and happiness to an arid stretch of terri tory greater in size than many countries of Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.