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The Old Cattle Trails by George Barrow Cowboy Driver
George Barrow, a seventies trail driver, recalls his first cattle drive from Lockhart Texas to up the Smoky River near Fort Hays Kansas. He describes rough days with Indians, buffalo hunts, a cyclone, a near drowning, and the Sewanee Kid drowning as the herd milled at the Canadian River.
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George Barrow
George
Wichita
Lockhart
Texas
Smoky River
Old Fort Hyes
Kansas
Bill Montgomery
South Texas
Waxahachie
Puncher
Fort Worth
Miss Buffalo
Jones
Canadian
Tennessee
Sewanee