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Jack Bailey: A Texas Drover's Diary, 1868

Authors

• David Dary
• Jack Bailey

Abstract

Introduction: In the late nineteenth century, thousands sought adventure and fortune on the cattle trails. Unfortunately, few committed their experiences to writing. The journal of Jack Bailey, which records the activities of a Texas cowboy from August 5 to November 8, 1868, is the earliest known daily account of life on the trail in the years following the Civil War. [Note: materially originally published by David Dary (ed.) in A Texas Cowboy's Journal: Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868.

Keywords:

Texas cowboys, journals, diaries, cattle drives, Kansas, cowboys

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