Cowboy Thanksgiving (1900)

Well back in October 1888 my Great Grandma was three when her father decided they would emigrate to Canada. They went by ship then by oxen drawn bow top caravan to Winnipeg. They were there before the railroad. Unfortunately after a year the crops failed and they decided to go to New York they lived on Long Island but sadly her father died from complications of a shooting accident he was shot in the arm. So they returned to England.

One story is told that my Great Grandma had a little brother she had been told to look after him but he fell off the back thankfully they realised went back and...

-If You're riding ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.

-You know you have the keys to a cowboys heart when you got the keys to his truck.

-Boots, Chaps and Cowboy hats nothin' else matters.

-A Cowgirl is a woman with guts and a horse.

-When in doubt lt your horse do the thinkin'.

-We all got pieces of crazy in us, some bigger pieces than others.

-I took to the life of a cowgirl like a horse takes to oats.

-Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb.

-There never was a Cowboy who couldn't be thrown; there never was a horse who couldn't be rode.

-A cowboy...

Reproduced verbatim from "Undercover" by Deborah Jarvis.


RECIPE ONE: COWBOY FLAPJACKS

1 cup (4 ounces) of flour
1 egg
1 cup (1/2 pint) of milk
butter
lemon & sugar OR jam

1) Put flour in a large bowl.
2) Add egg and blend in well.
3) Pour in milk a little at a time and stir until mixture is smooth.
4) Melt butter in frying pan to cover the bottom and heat until steaming.
5) Pour just enough batter in pan to cover the bottom and cook until underside is golden brown.
6) Then flip over (brave cooks flip in the air) and cook the second side until brown.
7) Add your favourite filling - jam or...

[i] Verbatim extract from the book left [i]

“Trains helped transform the eastern end of the Great Plains as well, accelerating settlement and community building in the new Kansas cow towns created by the cattle boom. The western cattle industry had its origins in the antebellum era, when Texas cattlemen began to drive herds of hardly longhorn cattle west to California and Colorado, where they would feed the miners in the goldfields, or to Kansas City and St Louis, where they could be shipped to eastern markets. It was not until the late 1860s, after the interruption of the Civil War and the...