Cowboys & CowTales (ePub)

Have a sincere interest in history? What about the history of cattle and their caretakers - cowboys? Still no interest! You're looking in the wrong book! This book is about cows and cowboys from the earliest recorded history in the border areas of the Mexican province of Spain in the very early 1500's until and all the way up to today. This written effort is divided into five time periods, each reflecting activities involving cattlemen, cowboys and cows of that particular period. Though centering in the area of Texas, activities within this book occurred in many of the southwestern, mid-northern, and western states. Depending upon the time frame, perhaps these were areas at one time or another considered to be wild and untamed lands - the vast western wilderness. If you like cowboys and cows, you'll enjoy your ride through the pages of this book. Stories involving salty tears, grimy faces, and the willingness to try the impossible will endear to you a way of life that has come and gone. Only written works like this can revive this time, share the endured hardships, and produce smiles of joy along with these young men of the past, who regularly did the impossible again and again and again. If you like cowboys and cows.......you're going to love this book. It was written especially for YOU!!!