For the most part we see wide landscapes combined with the motion of the trail. A herd of wild horses kicks up dust on a plain, or water while crossing a river. Lassos are suspended in air.
Cactuses reach for the sky.
Also sprinkled in are an assortment of poems and song lyrics by various writers, some recent but many from early in the 20th century. If there is an overarching message here, it just may be found in the expanse and beauty of the land where cowboys have always worked. Despite the difficulties that, LeRoy assures us, fill their everyday lives, Dawson's cowboys are surrounded and dwarfed by the beauty of nature, and that gives them a certain solitude and peace that contemporary readers may find irresistible. All rights reserved.