Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack
by Frank Benton
Chapter 1 of 25 Dedication and Preface
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- Running time
- 3 h 40 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- AnthonyJackson, Bill Mosley, Dale Latham, DrPGould, Francisco and 5 others
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About this recording
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