Where the wagon led
Subtitle: one man's memories of the cowboy's life in the Old West
By: [by] R. D. Symons.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Doubleday Canada; Doubleday
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Toronto; Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Symons, R. D., 1898-; Cowboys
Description: Details the life of the cowboy: what a cowboy ate on roundup, what he had in his bedroll, why he sang while riding night herd, how he broke a horse, what a "heeler" did at branding time, how rustlers could operate undetected, and what happened when a cattle drive reached the railhead. All this is woven into a personal story that ranges from its setting in Saskatchewan and Alberta, south through the great cattle states east of the Rockies, on into Mexico. It is a story rich in incident and character. Battling on horseback through freezing blizzards, fording dangerously flooded rivers in spring--these tasks bred tough, independent men. Symons tells us about many of them and about there women; the hardworking frontier wives, the ranchers' daughters, and the other women "behind the lace curtains."