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When Cowboys still trailed cattle north out of Texas and the Strip, the railroad offered special Cowboy rates for the trip home and the Kansas Cowboy newspaper offered reading material related to Cowboy interests of the day. All over the country, we're seeing a resurgence in recreating the Cowboy life of old. What better way to keep track of today's Cowboy interests than in the pages of the Kansas Cowboy! Join the C.O.W.B.O.Y. Society for $18.67 an' get 6 issues of the Kansas Cowboy. Cowboy adventure throughout the year! Kassi & The Cowboy tell history like they were living it! In fact each issue of the Kansas Cowboy breaks new ground with historical information ya won t find anywhere else. We're MAKING history! YOU, too, can become a part of history by supporting the C.O.W.B.O.Y. Society and the one and only Kansas Cowboy! The Jan/Feb issue features Kansas In 1886. Our Kansas series has been a popular one. No where else can you find one year in Kansas so well sewn together. The Blizzard of 1886 was the granddaddy of them all! But 1886 also saw Kansas ban Texas trail cattle from its borders while another railroad strike brought turmoil. A new battle began with a county seat war in Stevens county. The Boys of Zerfari are at it again! The third installment takes us to the back country of Trego Countys Saline River valley. We are sorting out the location of the great Cheyenne hunting camp of 1857. And to top things off we locate the old fort built by surveyors in 1867. We are are celebrating 14 years of GREAT Cowboy stories and just plain fun! George Hoffman was a bullwhacker turned Cowboy who jest happened to become a wealthy Little River, Kansas banker. Ridin with the Yahoos takes a very special kind of spirit. Thanks for your support! With the Yahoos takes a very special kind of spirit. Only the Kansas Cowboy consistently brings our members the Straight Shootin West. Jest click on the Join The Cowboy Society link on this page an you ll be set ta go fer a great year of the Old West as it REALLY was. Remember - Never Sell Yer Saddle!
Featured Drovers From Past
Issues
- Captain E. B. Millett
- Capt. Millett ran a "tough outfit" all over the great plains.
- Major Seth Mabry
- Seth Mabry always said he would shave his beard when he made a million dollars!
- John Nathan Hittson
- "The Life & Times Of Cattle Jack...", A man who was truly a legend in his own time.
- Sol West -
- The long trail wasn't so glamorous & romantic in the face of a "Late Spring Norther".
- Tom Waggoner
- Tom Waggoner wanted to run the best cow herd and the best horses in Texas.
- George W. Miller
- The world famous 101 Ranch was built with the best Cow hands trailing cattle from Texas to Kansas.
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