The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-08
COWBOY %RECKLESSNESS
A Bullet In a Cow Puncher's Neck
lnterfered With His Breathing
to Such an Extentthat He
Quit Trying.

'ies," said the old cattle man, as he
took of his sombrero and gazed medita-
lively at the rattlesnake band which en-
vironed the crown. '~'cow-punchers are
mighty queer people. They need watchiDs
an hcrdin' nearly as much as cattle.
knowed one by the name of Stevenson
down OF the Turkey Track ranch. in
Texas, as merited a heap Of lookin' after.
This we're Stevenson wasn't exactly ornery
but helm naturally restless an peevish,
with a disposition to be emphatic when
ever he was film Of himself up, keepins
your eye on him was a good safe play. He
was public spirited, too. in his way, am
sometimes took lots Of pains 10 please
people.
II minds once when we was bringin' up
a beef herd from the Panhandle country.
We was up agin the south bank Of the
Arkansaw tryin' to throw the herd across.
There was n bridge there, but we allowed
IL was plenty weak, so we was maxim the
herd wade. Steve was posted at the
entrance of the bridge to turn back any
loose cattle that might take a notion TO NJ
an cross that away. Thar he was a-st
tin on his broncho, an both mighty near
asleep. Some women people-towerists- !
reckon was .amped i'm town came
over ON the bridge To see the fun. They
lined out close up to Steve an ~a-leanin'
VI she,I sp.',e eas'e'" e"'hs oh the op
rail a-lookin' down.
"'I don't regard this much,' says one
young woman there ant no thrill into
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