They would follow their wagon boss through hell and never complain. They were intensely loyal to the outfit they were working for and would fight to the death for it. In character there like never was or will be again. In person the cowboys were mostly medium-sized men, as a heavy man was hard on horses, quick and wiry, and as a rule very good natured in fact it did not pay to be anything else. They used to brag they could go any place a cow could and stand anything a horse could. They never kicked, because those boys was raised under just the same conditions as there was on the trail―corn meal and bacon for grub, dirt floors in the houses, and no luxuries. “They had very little grub and they usually run out of that and lived on straight beef they had only three or four horses to the man, mostly with sore backs, because the old time saddle ate both ways, the horse's back and the cowboy's pistol pocket they had no tents, no tarps, and damn few slickers.
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