Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack
Author: first_name: Frank
last_name: Benton
Language: English
Year: 1903

Frank Benton, himself a wealthy rancher, provides a series of first-hand sketches of cowboy life of the late 19th and early 20th century from stories gathered from the "sidetrack."  These were working cowpunchers with a subculture of their own who did the day-to-day work of the ranches.  This is an important part of American history preserved for us in these stories. - Summary by Larry Wilson