Buddies in the Saddle

This is not exactly a cowboy memoir. The author is a newspaperman, not a cowboy, who spends a year on a large ranch in western Montana. All ...

Here's the last word about Emerson Hough before I move on to his fiction. Wrapping up my own notes on his book, The Story of the Cowboy...

I’m still reading Emerson Hough’s The Story of the Cowboy (1897), a book that is densely packed with information about the Old West. At fir...

This is an enjoyable cowboy memoir for any reader interested in the day-to-day, season-by-season work of modern-day cowboying and running a ...

Emerson Hough (1857-1923) was another Midwesterner who spent a while during his twenties in the Southwest. Arriving in 1883, he practiced la...

Charles Siringo (1855-1928) was all of 28 when he wrote this memoir (full title: A Texas Cowboy; or , Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of...

Here’s another edition of Buddies in the Saddle’s ongoing Old West glossary, with terms found in the early westerns I’ve been reading. Autho...