From the Pecos to the Powder: A Cowboy's Autobiography | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ramon F. Adams, Bob Kennon
Creator: Joe Beeler
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 264
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0806122129
Dewey Decimal Number: 978
EAN: 9780806122120
Publication Date: August 1989
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From the Pecos to the Powder April 10, 2008
My father was born in 1881, came to Montana in 1910, and was 58 years old when I was born. While growing up, I spent hours sitting in the log cabin on our ranch, around some men hunkered down by the corrals, or sitting on the veranda of the hotel in Broadus listening to old ranchers and cowboys tell tales such as one finds in this book. Admittedly, some of the truth gets stretched to make the story better or simply because stories tend to grow with passing years and multiple retellings. All were based in fact and I believe that most were quite close to the original events. We are indebted to Bob Kennon and Ramon Adams for getting Bob's memories down in print. Joe Beeler's careful art work and the actual photos lend an added dimension.
The book joins a number of other sources relating the experiences of cowboys who helped bring cattle up the trail from Texas and raise cattle on the northern plains. Together they paint a reasonably complete picture of the life people lived in that time and place. Although the title relies on Montana's Powder River to enhance the book's catchy title, the bulk of the book is about Kennon's experiences in the "wide open spaces" north and west of the Powder. It pictures the transition of a life from a young and reckless cowboy to a married and successful rancher; from open range to fenced homesteads and ranches. Along the journey Bob served as forest ranger, brand inspector, frontier lawman, and even doorkeeper of the Montana state senate.
In plain but illustrative language Kennon tells us about the events, activities, and places that made up his life. He describes life in some of the early "wild west" towns. Especially noteworthy are his descriptions of the people he encountered in his wide-ranging path through life. Every chapter of the book adds to the total; for this reviewer to cite any particular of Bob's accounts would be misleading. If your interests include Montana history or cattle ranching in the late 1880s and early 1900s, you will enjoy this book.
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