Dakota cowbow : my life in the old days / Ike Blasingame ; illustrated by John Mariani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blasingame, Ike, 1884-1962, author.

Contributor:

Mariani, John F., illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cowboys--South Dakota.

Cowboys.

Ranch life.

Frontier and pioneer life--South Dakota.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

2013.

Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [1958]

Summary:

When the most romantic of cow outfits, the British-owned Matador, shipped out from Texas with 3,000 head of cattle bound for Dakota and the Cheyenne Indian Reservation, an observant young bronc twister named Ike Blasingame rode with them. Dakota Cowboy-which the New York Times calls "warm, human, flavorful"-is the story of Ike's eight years (1904-1912) on the last of the great open ranges. Its pages "take the reader across the treacherous Missouri as the spring-softened ice goes out under the horses' feet, into the still wild cow towns, through the roundups, the prairie fire

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. Spring 1904; 2. Filling the Range; 3. The Indians; 4. First Winter; 5. Spring on the Missouri, 1905; 6. Horses; 7. Storm and Stampede; 8. Rep at Turkey Tracks; 9. Cowboy's Romance; 10. With the Sword & Dagger; 11. Second Winter, 1905-1906; 12. The Rough Broncs; 13. Headquarters at Benoist, 1905; 14. Spring on the Range, 1906; 15. Fall Roundup, 1906; 16. The Big Winter, 1906-1907; 17. The Big Roundups; 18. Brand Man; 19. Trouble at the Matador; 20. Back to Dakota; 21. Homesteader

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803252448

0803252447