True Snake Stories

Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack

by Frank BENTON (1853 - 1921)

Frank Benton, himself a wealthy rancher, provides a series of first-hand sketches of cowboy life of the late 19th and early 20th century from stories gathered from the "sidetrack." These were working cowpunchers with a subculture of their own who did the day-to-day work of the ranches. This is an important part of American history preserved for us in these stories. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Listen next episodes of Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack:
A Cowboy Enoch Arden , Arrival at South Omaha Transfer , Catching a Maverick , Chuckwagon's Death , Disappearance of the Sheepmen , Grafting , Grand Island , Our Arrival in Cheyenne , Packsaddle Jack's Death , ''Sarer'' , Stealing Crazy Head's War Ponies , The Cattle Queen's Ghost , The Cattle Stampede , The File , The Final Roundup , The Post-Hole Digger's Ghost