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The Passing of the Frontier

CHAPTER IX
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They were sleek, fat, well-fed animals, heavy and stocky, even of type, all either whitefaces or shorthorns.

With them were some old-time cowmen, men grown gray in range work.

Alongside the herds, after the ancient fashion of trailing cattle, rode cowboys who handled their charges with the same old skill.
But even the cowboys had changed.

These were without exception men from the East who had learned their trade here in the West.

Here indeed was one of the last acts of the great drama of the Plains.


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