Around the name of cowboy hangs a romance that will never die.
It is a romance interwoven with deeds of daring, nerve, and big-heartedness that will survive long after civilization has stamped out every need for the brave men who have been known by the name of cowboy.
COWBOYS LASSOING WILD HORSES.
Our country is one that has sprung surprises upon the world from its very beginning, and it has produced men possible in no other land.
Without the services of the cowboy the vast grazing-lands of America would have been worthless.
As the buffalo, like the Indian, perished before the march of emigration westward, there came to take their place vast herds of beef-cattle, feeding on the plains where the once wild monarchs of the prairies had roamed.
With these immense herds it was necessary to have herders, and they became known by the somewhat picturesque cognomen of cowboy.
They are known from the flower-bespangled prairies of the Lone Star State to the land of the Frozen North, and their worth is recognized by those who know them as they are, for to their care is given the vast wealth of the cattlemen of the country, which is not alone in the beef furnished for the markets but to be found also in the tan-yards and factories of the East.
By many, who do not know him as he is, the cowboy is despised and generally feared.