Tom Van Dyke

PREFACE I have a long trail of praise for the American cowboy. Leafing through tattered pages of hand-written journals and dust-covered books; and wandering museums admiring masterworks of western artists, I looked beyond their golden frames as windows into America's past, and imagined what the restless spirit of the West was like one hundred fifty years ago for cowboys and the sunbonnets on the American frontier-a land once thought to be as far...