The cattle queen of Montana (1894) (14770615592)

Identifier: cattlequeenofmon00coll (find matches)
Title: The cattle queen of Montana
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Collins, Elizabeth M. Smith, b. 1844. (from old catalog) Wallace, Charles. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: St. James, Minn., C.W. Foote
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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and assoon as that place has been reached, again the tireless ridergallops away in search of more animals. They camp wherever night overtakes them and early thenext morning are again in the saddle and away across theprairie. At the general camp or headquarters is the grub wagonand cook for the round-up and for those who are withineasy distance as the hour for meals arrive is provided goodfood, their employers paying therefor at a stated rateper day for each man. The cowboys, as a rule, are bright, active, intelligentyoung men, generous and liberal to a fault, and withalpossessed of many noble qualities. True it is there aresome worthless, low and degraded men among theirnumber but those of this character constitute but a smallminority. For sixteen long years my home has been surrounded bythese men and they have been associated with my dailylife, and after this experience I am prepared to say that theaverage Montana cowboy is a fair-minded, noble-hearted,generous and whole-souled man.
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A STOEY OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN THE WEST. 207 Many and many is the poor boy whose broken arm orlimb I have bandaged as he lay upon the rocks or hard,dry earth of the prairie, far from house or habitation,where he had been injured by a vicious horse or enragedanimal, and in this manner have I earned the title amongthem of Aunty or Mother and in the possession ofsuch cognomen I cannot but feel exceeding pride, for Ihave learned to look upon the boys, now that I knowthem so well, as true types of manly courage, generosityand activity. Many of them are young men who have been reared inthe east, possess good educations and are in our midst onlyby force of adverse circumstances. The world sees onlythe dark side of their life and nature, but let those wholook upon the average Montana cowboy as a drunken,rough, half-civilized creature hesitate ere they expresstheir opinion, for let the truth only be known and they willappear in a far different light, as should opportunity arisethat self-sam