Daniel Villines’s Reviews > Arizona Ames > Status Update

When cattle in great herds began to be driven…the cowboy was introduced to the world…He came from the four corners of the United States, and beyond. At most he was a boy not yet out of his teens; but the life of the range, the toil and endurance demanded by cattle-raising, the border saloon, the gambling-hell, the rustler, developed him at once into a man, and one that eventually made the West habitable.