To make your bed in snow or be snowed over is not nearly so bad.
No tents were ever seen on the round-up.

Everyone slept on the open bare ground.

But for use during my long drives across country I got to using a small Sibley tent, nine feet by nine feet, which had a canvas floor attached to the walls, and could be closed up at night so as to effectually prevent the entrance of skunks and other vermin.

This tent had no centre pole whatever.

You simply drove in the four corner stake-pins, raised the two light rods over it triangularwise, and by a pulley and rope hoist up the peak.