Cowboy The Legend and the Legacy
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Brian Payton has written for numerous publications, including Islands, the New York Times, and the Globe and Mail. He also co-wrote Spirit Transformed: A Journey from Tree to Totem. He now lives on Denman Island in British Columbia and travels the world profiling people and places.
COWBOY is a book written to describe the life of the cowboy, and the history that comes with this great American icon. Even though there were not more than forty thousand original cowboys, the legend and the glory of being one still lives on today.
Cowboys were often Mexicans, Native Americans, or ex-slaves from the South and even Eastern boys who longed for the freedom of the wild, Wild West. The cowboy was a simple man, who worked hard, to make money in the cattle trade for other men. There life was dirty, dangerous, and backbreaking. After the Civil War men looked for a means of survival, and in the search, cowboys swelled in the South. Newly freed slaves, criminals escaping the law, Southern gentlemen who were destined to cross the acres of rich green and golden grasses of the West...