This collection of snippits and anecdotes on cowboy life re-creates the world of each of the ranches and the range of the latter half of the 20th century-and are the stories of today's old-time cowboys. They testify to the hard realities that fill the everyday lives of cowboys and cowgirls and to the tough practicality, the commonsense resourcefulness, the intelligence, and brilliant good humor with which they stare down a challenge.