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By James H. Cook

The keen-eyed, cool-headed, and fearless males (Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Buffalo invoice Cody, gigantic Foot Wallace, and Captain Jim cook dinner, between others) who have been pivotal personalities for greater than part a century within the virtually ceaseless job of clearing the way in which for and guarding the lives and homes of explorers, emigrants, and settlers within the West, are an extinct kind of pioneer, bills of the heroic deeds of this handful of guys, notwithstanding, stay at the present time as indelible documents that dramatize the melting away of this country’s monstrous frontiers.

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Early in life Cook had known this land of the Dakotas, had mingled with their young men, and learned something of their language, but he was still a stripling when he took to the saddle and the life of a cowboy, far down in the Comanche country and the borders of the Llano Estacado. In 1870, when Bill Cody was in the heyday of his usefulness and popularitychief scout of the Fifth United States Cavalry in the Platte countryCook, seven years his junior, was just learning how to fling the lasso; and for five long years he rode the southern plains, sometimes driving herds far north to the Kansas Pacific.

His son Harold blends ranching and science in a way that throws light on history. Bibliography Cook, James H. "The Art of Fighting Indians," The American Mercury, June, 1931. Fifty Years on the Old Frontier. New Haven, 1923. Longhorn Cowboy. Edited by Howard R. Driggs. New York, 1942. "Six-Gun Days," New Mexico Magazine, March, 1936. "The Texas Trail," Nebraska History Magazine, Vol. XVI (1935). French, T\he Honorable William. Some Recollections of a Western Ranchman: New Mexico, 1883-1899.

I fell into line behind all the other riders, thinking that the best place to watch the performance. We rode in single file for probably a couple of miles. Suddenly I heard a crash ahead, and in less than two seconds every rider in advance of me was riding as if the devil were after him. My horse knew the work, and plunged after the riders ahead. I held up for a moment; then the thought struck me that, if I did not keep those ahead of me in sight, I might never get back to camp. I did not know in which direction we had been riding, and one acre of ground looked just like all the resteverywhere brush, timber, cactus.

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