FIRST EDITION
After Deluxe edition of 125 copies, numbered and signed by the author.
DEDICATION
To all the old-time cowboys and cowmen whose hearts were as big as the range they rode.
CONTENTS
[I. Earliest Memories (1869 to 1878)]
[II. Black Hills of South Dakota (1878 to 1885)]
[III. I Start to Punch Cows]
[IV. With the RL Outfit]
[V. With the TL Outfit in the Bear Paws]
[VI. Line Riding With the Mounted Police]
[VII. In the Judith Basin Country of Montana]
[VIII. With the DHS Outfit]
[IX. Jim Spurgeon]
[X. Tom Daly]
[XI. Kid Curry]
[XII. Fred Reid]
[XIII. Indians]
[XIV. Open Range Days]
[XV. The Johnson County War]
[XVI. Broncos]
[XVII. My Marriage]
[XVIII. The Lazy KY]
[XIX. Memories of Charlie Russell]
[XX. Cowboy Philosophy]
PREFACE
Some years ago, through my interest in the life and work of Charles M. Russell, I met Con Price. No one could go far into the subject of Montana’s Cowboy Artist without cutting Con Price’s trail.
These two men were more than cowpuncher friends and associates in a ranch partnership. Charlie regarded Con as one of the greatest bronco riders of his time, and Con considers Charlie the finest kind of friend a man could have had.
It was a long time before Con would talk much about his close friendship with Charlie Russell—a friendship that started on the range before either was married, and lasted until Charlie crossed the Big Divide in 1926. After some urging Con has, over a period of years, written something of his early days in Old Montana, with a few, too few, references to his friend Russell.