The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-04-23

A number Of sales of Texas cattle have
lately been made at fair prices, In Texas.
They are mostly stock cattle and will co.
to fill ranges depleted by last summers
sales and this winters losses.
Some action shonld be taken BY ouri
cowmen to prevent ound-ups after the
beef roundup in the fall, This Is the
time when the cattle become attached to-
one range and, IL not disturbed are /
liable to remain there all winter, only
drifting back and forth q little way to
avoid storms. If they are disturbed and
driven off their range they are liable to-
drift hundreds of miles. II this subject
is discussed in time it will save many
dollars to our coWmen. s.st35 81
Below are the three roundup districts
inWhich our cowmen are interested They
will be kept standing until they begin
It will be noticed that the Powder river
roundup begins May and the Yellow
stone md Little Missouri begin MY
RODND-UP DISTRICT NO. ;5.s
Z beginning at the mouth Of Powder fi7-ss
Ier, May 2 1886; thence working down the
Yellowstone river on / the south side to-
the mouth Of O'FalIo1 creek; thence up
Fallon creek and its tributaries to its
head; thence across to the head Of Little
Beaver; thence down Little Beaver to-
within ten miles Of ! its mouth: thence
across to the head of Big Beaver; thence
down Big Beaver to tile Northern Pacific.
railroad; thence across to the head Of.
GlendiYe creek and down to the Yellow
stone river; thence up the Yellowstone
river including Cedar creek to the mouth.
Of Cabin creek; thence up Cabin creek; to
its head. ]. b. Lander, foreman.
ROUNDUP DISTRICT No. 6aes4 3;
Beginning at the mouth Of Box Elder,
May 25. 1885; thence working down the
Little Missouri and its tributaries to q
point about twenty miles below the
mouth of Big Beaver; thence up Big Bea-
yer and its tributaries to the Northern
Pacific railroad. W. P. Osterhout, fore.
man. d sg..} {3-ii7: 3; l:;S h 5
| ROUNDUP DISTRICT NO. Z.
Beginning May Is, 1885, at the mouth
of the Yellowstone river, thence working
up the Yellowstone river and tributaries
on the east side to Glendiye and the
Northern Pacific railroad. R. II. Moore,
foreman. :55s Y :: 49, Y 4
t The cowboy seems to be losing the
pristine gorgeonsness of his character.
Only a few years ago people knew him
as a wild and terrible factor in the
development of the west. He had things
his own way, took possession of towns,
ran whole counties, and If he did not
drink hot blood, shed it with reckless
ness that painted all the streams that
4 sloped away from the Rockies delicious
pinky red. Hewas the ideal b-a-a-d man
4 from the head-wateFs of Bitter creek;
He ate fire and spat snow. He was wild
and woody and hard to carry. When he
ordered a drink it was rattle-snakes'
stings with the bite in them. When he
sat down to restaurant table it was to
demand white mans liver and dead
nigger's toe-nales. He waded in gore,
and was always in the business of start
ing graveyards in new towns where the
locality was too healthy for any other
kind of sudden death than that which
comes with old age. This Is only a
feeble suggestion of what the old-time
cowboy Of fiction was. In his most
peaceful moments he had his hand on
his revolver and big bowie knife be-
tween his teeth. His word was law.
The statutes of the United States had no
more weight than his simple say 80. He
carried his own court with him, and
when the time came to pronounce SEN
tence, whether he was right or wrong,
this ancient cowpuncher seldom failed
| to administer justice with his six-shooter.
Where is such a man?-]St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
i A'cOwBoY's PRIMER.
Papa, who is that man?
My child, that is cowboy. ~...
;. Why is he standing there2
He is rolling cigarette. my child.
| What is that just over the hill?
That, my child, is big herd of cattle.
Why is not the cowboy along with the
rest? .-~ d. r. q
| My darling, his health requires that he
must stop for ten minutes and roll q
cigarette before leaving camp.
i Is his health poor, papa2
4 Very poor, my child.