Strange to say, the worst of these "bad" men often made the best of ranch hands.

Cowboys as a class, that is, the genuine cowboys of days gone by, were a splendid lot of fellows, smart, intelligent, self-reliant and resourceful, also hard and willing workers.

If they liked you, they would stay with you in any kind of trouble and be thoroughly loyal.

No such merry place on earth as the cow camp, where humour, wit and repartee abounded.

The fact of every man being armed, and in these far-off days probably a deadly shot, tended to keep down rowdyism and quarrelling.