They are like these cowboys songs I have seen in books and heard over the radio, that are all fixed up and not the way we used to sing them at all. I have read plenty of histories of the trail, written by other men who went over it, that are entirely accurate as to fact, but they are not told right. And his influence is not dead yet.įor a long time I have wanted to write a history of the cattle range and of the movement of the cattle as they were gradually pushed north over the Texas trail. But the Texas cowboy’s mode of speech and dress and actions set the style for all the range country. A lot of farmers and businessmen came in here after the cowpunchers, and there were a few other people who got here first.
All this part of Montana east of the mountains was settled by Texans who came here with the cattle, and so was Wyoming, and parts of Colorado and New Mexico, and the western half of the Dakotas, and even Nebraska before the farmers run them out.
This is where they get the idea that I am a Texan. But I came to Montana with a herd of Texas cattle in 1883. I was born in Granwich Hall, Granwich County of Norfolk, England, December 17, 1860. People who know me often talk as though I was from Texas. Recollections of a Cowpuncher-How I Came to Montana
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