A Cowboy's Life Is Very Dangerous Work: The Autobiography of a Flathead Reservation Indian Cowboy, 1870-1944

by Malcolm McLeod

Book Overview

The story of the cattle barons has often overshadowed the experiences of the common cowboy on whose labor the ranchers' wealth was built. Malcolm McLeod recorded the life of privation and danger of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century mixed-blood cowboy. He worked for cattle owners across Montana and in southern British Columbia and eastern Washington. Born in Washington Territory in 1870 of Scotch, French Canadian, and Chippewa Indian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934594172
• ISBN13: 9781934594179
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Salish Kootenai College Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher