Cowboy Life on The Sidetrack

About this eBook

Author

Benton, Frank, 1853-1921

Title

Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack Being an Extremely Humorous & Sarcastic Story of the Trials & Tribulations Endured by a Party of Stockmen Making a Shipment from the West to the East.

Credits

Produced by Annie R. McGuire. This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Internet Archive.

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes

Category

Text

eBook-No.

39777

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39777

Release Date

May 24, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.The Sidetrack — By FRANK BENTON, — ILLUSTRATED BY E. A. FILLEAU, — DENVER, COLO.: — THE WESTERN STORIES SYNDICATE. — Copyright, 1903, — By FRANK BENTON.
3. 3.DEDICATION.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.PREFACE.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. — The Start .
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — Chuckwagon's Dream .
8. 8.CHAPTER III. — Grazing the Sheep — Jackdo Sings "Home, Sweet Home ."
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — Letters from Home Brought by Immigrants .
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — Eatumup Jake's Life Story .
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — The Schoolmarm's Saddle Horse .
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — Selling Cattle on the Range . — OLD BUCK'S GHOST.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — True Snake Stories .
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — Chuckwagon's Death . — Dillbery Ike's Tribute to Chuckwagon .
15. 15.CHAPTER X. — The Disappearance of the Sheepmen . — Jackdo's Story of His Escape .
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. — Our Arrival in Cheyenne .
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — The Post-Hole Digger's Ghost .
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. — Grafting .
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. — The File .
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. — The Cattle Stampede .
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. — Catching a Maverick .
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. — Stealing Crazy Head's War Ponies .
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. — The Cattle Queen's Ghost .
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. — Packsaddle Jack's Death . — THE SPIRIT OF PACKSADDLE FOLLOWS THE DEAD COW.
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. — A Cowboy Enoch Arden .
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. — Grand Island .
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. — " Sarer ." — Eats Up "Sarer ." — THE PASSING OF DILLBERY IKE.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. — Arrival at the Transfer Track of South Omaha . — The Inferno of the Transfer . — The Farmer's Prayer .
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. — THE FINAL ROUNDUP.
30. 30.The Denver Union Stock Yard Co., Denver, Colo.
31. 31.Greatest Stocker, Feeder and Fat Stock Market in the West. — Capacity—15,000 Cattle; 10,000 Hogs; 30,000 Sheep; 5,000 Horses. — ====The==== — Denver Live Stock — Commission Co. — Telephone 818. P. O. Box 818. — Union Stock Yards, Denver, Colo. — Incorporated $20,000. — DENVER, COLO. — ...The... — Flato Commission — Company
32. 32.LIVE STOCK SALESMEN AND BROKERS. — South Omaha, Nebraska; Chicago, Illinois; South St. — Joseph, Missouri; North Fort Worth, Texas.
33. 33.Capital $250,000.00 — DIRECTORS: — FOOTNOTES:

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