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Title: Book of Texas
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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TEXAS CATTLE IN FREE-GRASS DAYS 175 Before the days of pens, holding a herd together requiredconstant work by day and by night. Storms increased thedifficulties and lightning the danger, it being a favoritetrick for lightning to strike around the edge of the herdwhere the cowboys were, rather than in the herd. Holdinga herd at night on the bare prairie without shelter andwatching a tropical storm approach is no job for a molly-coddle. The roar of the approaching wind, the increasingclaps of thunder, the more and more vivid flashes of light-ning, the electric glow on the horns of the cattle, conspiredto make a cowboy yearn for a dry bed at home. Roping and riding were the arts of all arts, and above hissaddle, his boots, his hat, or his spurs, the cowboy valuedhis roping and cutting horse. (This is said in spiteof the frequent truth of the song about the forty-dollarsaddle and the ten-dollar horse.) Marvellous indeed wasthe way in which a six-hundred-pound horse could holdand throw a t

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