| "The
cowboy
goes to the school of nature." -- Will James "The
cowboy
don't need no iron hoss, but covers his country on one that eats grass and
wears hair." -- Charles M. Russell
"Let
me go - The world is bobbing around me."
--
Some of
Sam Bass' last
words.
"Hang 'em first, try 'em
later." --
Judge Roy Bean
"Out
West,
you lived a long time. Even horse thieves had to hang five minutes longer
than anywhere else." -- Anonymous
"Don't ever hit your
mother with a shovel. It will leave a dull impression on her mind." --
Butch Cassidy
"It was a land of vast silent spaces, of
lonely rivers, and of plains where the wild game stared at the passing
horseman. It was a land of scattered ranches, of ... long-horned cattle,
and of reckless riders who unmoved, looked in the eyes of life or death."
-- Theodore Roosevelt in An Autobiography, 1913
"It was a hard land, and it bred hard men to
hard ways." -- Louis L'Amour
"Tombstone
has two dance halls, a dozen gambling places and more than 20 saloons.
Still, there is hope, for I know of two Bibles in town." -- Judge
Wells Spicer in 1881
"Every American child should learn at school
the history of the conquest of the
West. The names
Kit Carson, of
General Custer and of Colonel Cody should be as household words ... Nor should
Sitting Bull, the Short Wolf,
Crazy Horse ... be forgotten. They too were
Americans, and showed the same heroic qualities as did their conquerors."
-- R. B. Cunninghame Graham in a letter to Theodore Roosevelt in 1917.
On the range, the supply of good cooks was
always low and the demand keen. -- Ramon F. Adams
"Where do you want to go?" asked the conductor.
"To
Hell," said the
cowboy.
"Well, give me $2.50 and get off at
Dodge."
--
Conversation overheard in Newton,
Kansas,
during the late 1800's, quoted in Trail Driving Days, 1952.
Out
where the handclasp's a little stronger,
Out
where the smile dwells a little longer,
That's where the
West
begins.
--
Arthur Chapman, Out Where the West Begins, 1917
''There's many a slip 'twix the cup and the lip.''--
Billy the Kid
Other states are carved or born;
Texas
grew from hide and horn.
--
Berta Hart Nance
My life was threatened
daily, and I was forced to go heavily armed. --
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