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Cow-Country

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~3h 8min
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English
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Dodo Press 8 views
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143461624X, 9781434616241
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Paperback
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Bertha Muzzy Bower

Born Bertha Muzzy in Montana and a prolific writer of fiction set in the Old West, she became Bower through her first of three marriages (Wikipedia).

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In hot mid afternoon when the acrid, gray dust cloud kicked up by the listless plodding of eight thousand cloven hoofs formed the only blot on the hard blue above the Staked Plains, an ox stumbled and fell awkwardly under his yoke, and refused to scramble up when his negro driver shouted and prodded him with the end of a willow gad...

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Wonderful, informed discussion of the days of the cattleman, the period just after the Civil War, and the fencing of the free range in the 1880's. Here is the story of those times, with separate chapters on the humor of the cowboy and the songs sung by those cowboys.

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