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Cowboy American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture by Daniel Pruitt
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ISBN:
9780228104490.0
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But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions that finally happened about 1860. May your belly never grumble May your heart never ache May your horse never stumble May your cinch never break --Cowboy blessing Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. The east of North America was thickly forested. Modern cattle thrive in grasslands, and when white Europeans made their way to Texas, Kansas and Missouri they found a bonanza of grasslands that were being connected to the big markets of the East, by the first railways across the plains.