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F011T MACLEOD, N. W. T.. MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1882..Po.etry,The Bevenge of Bain-in-th.e~FaceIn that Tiosoliito land and lone,Where the big Horn and Yellowstou* Jloar down their mountain-path,By I heir firosdhc Sioux Chiefs Muttered tlicir woes and griefs And the menace of their rath. “Revenge!” cried Ibim-in-the-Faco,14 Revenge upon all the niceOf the AVhite Chief with yellow hair I” And the mountains dark and high From their crags re-echoed tho cry Of his anger and despair.In* the meadow, spreading wide Bywroodlar’d and riverside The Indian village stood;All was silent as a dream, fcave the rushing of the stream And the blue-jay in the wood.In his war-paint and his beads,Like a bison among the reeds,In ambush the Sitting Bull Lay with three thousand braves Crouched iu the clefts and -caves,Savage, unmerciful!Into* tho. fatal snare The White Chief with vol-low hair And his three hundred men Dashed headlong, sword in hand;But of that gallant band Not one returned again.The sudden darknoss of death Overwhelmed them like the breath And smoke of a furnr.ee--fire:By the river’s bank, and between The rocks of the ravine,Tboy lay in their bloody attiro.But the foenien fled in.Uio night,And Rain-in tho Face, in his flight,.Uplifted high in air As a ghastly,trophy, bore The brave heart, that beat no more,Of the White Chief with yellow hair. Whose was the right and the wrong? Sing it, 0 funeral song,With -a- voice that is full of tears,And say that our broken faith Wrought all this:ruin and scathe,In the year-of a Hundred years.Miscellaneous.__'The Cowboy -Proper.————WEST MEN CATTLE* n RUPEES AS DUSTIN GUISUKU J-R03I THK'(TiVSTLKItS*WHO BtiLXttIXBM*[As many things arc -said -and relat-1 ed to the prejudice of tho much-abusedcowboy, a class’ of men which, $s*3 be-coming commcfi in this district, we »have inserted the following, written jby a cowboy, which gives a truenud iI graphic account of what lie really is.j j Very general interest in cowboys jcent events in Arizona, possibly you may find space for .gome explanations under Luo above caption. Having for some years been a cowboy himself, and drawn cowboy's pay, and endured the vicissitudes of cowboy camp-life, tho writer knows practically whereof lio writes.On rotun’ng to his'native South to enjoy fur a time what Eastern people are pleased to call civilization—tin-’ you’ll iind a very high type of Urn latter article iu settled regions .west of ; tho .Mississippi also—the cowboy iu nearly every paper picked up finds Homo abusive articles about cowboy's. It rombido ^iio of the time when the people of the West were edified daily by I ho production of the ‘Outrage .Alilis’ and their account of 4 Southern Outrages’ on colored voters.Only ahfew'-weClis since »a •paper in 4 ‘skinning -.sonic writer who Bar' been ‘shooting-up’ a little, over tho signature of * Jay hawker,’ used the word cowboy as.figurativei.c»f all .that was infested and contaminating. Every hum of the tolcgraih wiro flashes eastward to the Associated Press some ccirioal bosh ahoiife.o'^tragos-'hy Arizona cowboys. Even good motherly old. President Arthur has deemed lb necessary to issue a couple of manifestoes concerning them. ,Not in defense of Arizona cowboys •particularly, nor yet of any violators of law and order. butidor*fcr»olt;take»of thousands of respectable cowl)0}is earning honest and useful livings in the cattle business, wliicli adds juil-. lions yearly to our national income, the writer’is impelled to- bhis screed.Who, then, arc cowboys*? Tho name cowboy originated in Texas, and is applied to those hired to herd and handle cattle raised wild on the prairies. The life being outdoor and full of hardship £and danger, rrqqa .healthy, wiry, active man to endure it. Nearly all those following it for wages arc young men, hence bhonamo cowboys. Cattle-man and stock-man is the more dignified term used in referring to cattle owners and live-stock iTisers. In Old Me/.ico, California, Nevada and Arizona; whcro Spaniardtf are largely employed in tho business, and w]irnr$paa?ish is more or less spoken, tho ccrtvboy is called a Vaque-rro, bar kayra, a cowherd. In Bucnas. Ayres*and tlie vast pampas of South America, oi\ account #f his .nomadic ‘life, ho*is'called a Guacho, gwah-cho, a motherless, fatherless, homeless one.’ In Anstrdiia lie is called a stockrider. In Colorado, Wyoming and nearly all i the-itocky Moim tain grazing region, lie ! goes by the ridiculous name of cow-puncher.Cowboys Tocrldftzg on the range arc called rangemcn ; those hir ing to dvov-. ! ers to drive herds over tho trail to market, or some shipping point, are called tnuliucn. The main duties of a rnugomasi are to break broncos (tame wild horses), lasso, trim. braazd, mark and herd cattle-Thc: principal duty of a trailman is to herd and drive cattle on the trail. This, in large herds, requires experi-
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Fort MacLeod, Alberta, CA
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