{"id":1347,"date":"2013-12-04T22:52:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T05:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:31","slug":"winter-was-tough-on-cowboys-in-the-open-range-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=1347","title":{"rendered":"Winter was Tough on Cowboys in the Open Range Era\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Excerpted from Charlie Russell\u2014The Cowboy Years <\/i><\/p>\n

By Jane Lambert, Stevensville, MT<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Living on sourdough bread and coffee<\/strong>\u2026<\/i> <\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Con Price has a long recollection of spending the early winter (1890) with Charlie and three others. He wrote:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThey throwed together a log cabin on Warm Spring Creek, in the Judith Basin country\u2026 It had a dirt roof, dirt floor. Our cooking utensils were a frying pan and a coffee pot, and very little grub, as we were all broke when the winter came on.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cNo stove, we cooked on a kind of fireplace we built. No table, a few tin plates, empty corn cans for cups. We lived on sourdough bread and coffee, and once in awhile we\u2019d find a maverick. We had one horse among all of us, and we would take turns saddling that horse, and go out and look for some meat.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThere were thousands of cattle everywhere, and I don\u2019t think we looked too close to see if an animal had a brand or not. We called it a maverick, no questions asked. The cowmen weren\u2019t too severe about a cowboy eating a piece of their meat once in awhile, as long as they didn\u2019t make a business of selling it. \u00a0 read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excerpted from Charlie Russell\u2014The Cowboy Years By Jane Lambert, Stevensville, MT Living on sourdough bread and coffee\u2026 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Con Price has a long recollection of spending the early winter (1890) with Charlie and three others. He wrote: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThey throwed together a log cabin on Warm Spring Creek, in the Judith Basin country\u2026 It had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}