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Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack / Being an Extremely Humorous & Sarcastic Story of the Trials & Tribulations Endured by a Party of Stockmen Making a Shipment from the West to the East.

Chapter 8: FOOTNOTES:
By Frank Benton
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A collection of episodic, often sardonic sketches told from a cowboy viewpoint about moving livestock east by rail, mixing practical anecdotes, tall tales, and comic misadventures. Episodes range from waiting on sidetracks and chuckwagon lore to stampedes, ghost stories, stock-selling scenes, and personal reminiscences; recurring elements include ribald humor, rivalry with sheepmen, and culture clashes when ranch hands encounter Eastern tourists and railroad officials. The narrative voice reproduces colloquial speech and frontier tall-tale conventions to depict daily hardships, practical know-how, and the camaraderie of stockmen while satirizing pretension and bureaucratic interference.

Greatest Stocker, Feeder and Fat Stock Market in the West.

Capacity—15,000 Cattle; 10,000 Hogs; 30,000 Sheep; 5,000 Horses.

G. W. BALLENTINE, V.-Pres. and Gen. Mgr. **J. W. HURD, Asst. Treasurer. **H. PETRIE, Superintendent.
Elijah Bosserman, President.
M. H. Mark, Vice-President.
F. J. Duff, Secretary and Treas.
A. Bosserman, Cashier.
Elijah Bosserman, Cattle Salesman.
Link Bosserman, Cattle Salesman.
F. J. Duff, Hog Salesman.
M. H. Mark, Sheep Salesman.

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Denver Live Stock

Commission Co.

Telephone 818. P. O. Box 818.

Union Stock Yards, Denver, Colo.

Market Reports Furnished Promptly by Mail or Wire on

Application. Money Loaned to Parties Owning

Stock. Correspondence Solicited.

Incorporated $20,000.

Reference: ANY BANK IN DENVER.

DENVER, COLO.

F. W. FLATO, Jr., Prest.
I. M. HUMPHREY, Vice-Prest.
JAMES C. DAHLMAN, Sec'y.
J. S. HORN, Treas.

...The...

Flato Commission

Company

LIVE STOCK SALESMEN AND BROKERS.

South Omaha, Nebraska; Chicago, Illinois; South St.

Joseph, Missouri; North Fort Worth, Texas.

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Capital $250,000.00

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Prompt and Careful Attention Given all Consignments. Pleased

to Furnish Information by Correspondence or Otherwise

to any Person Interested.

DIRECTORS:

F. W. Flato Jr.
I. M. Humphrey.
R. R. Russell.
Ed. H. Reid.
L. L. Russell.
James C. Dahlman.
J. S. Horn.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] For the benefit of our readers who do not know what a chinook wind is, I will explain that it is a hot, violent coast wind which blows at certain periods of the year at certain altitudes in the West.

[2] Wrapping rope around the saddle horn.