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RE: Excerpts From A Cattle Drive Cowboy's Journal
This is very interesting. I like how they called the cows "beef" - very focused on their purpose. Their lives sound absolutely hellish. It must have been a career of last resort.
howdy there at ginnyannette! Hellish! lol. you're calling the preferred career choice of most Texans hellish! I don't know about you.
I should be severely offended. The truth is it was very much a young man's game except the trail boss and cookie, the chuckwagon cook.
With all the bad stuff that happened the young boys still all wanted to be Drovers in a big cattle drive.
Most thought it would be a grand adventure and the only way they'd be able to get away from home.
But for the Blacks, many of them saw it as their only option unless they wanted to be a servant or do dishes or whatever was the lowest job in the social fabric. but yeah get that beef movin!
thanks so much for commenting!
I guess there always is a percentage of society that is adventure seeking to go along with the ones with no other option. I'd like to hear about the frequency of cowgirls - there, your next project.
howdy back at ya today in gloomy Florida @ginnyannette!
cowgirls?? we don't need no puny cowgirls around here to ruin everything!
lol. well back then there weren't any basically. not doing the work of cowhands anyway and they sure wouldn't have been allowed on the trail drives and wouldn't have wanted to anyways because they're always alot smarter than the men.
I will try to find something on them though, but I don't know how much I'll find. might find enough for a post who knows?