Boomer+McBride

= //**Welcome to my Journal/Memoir about "The Wild, Wild, West"**// = = = = //**__Journal Entries__**// = March 24,1877. I have been riding my horse all day.I've been herding me some cattle.I'm still going for miles and miles.

March 30, 1877 We're sitting around the campfire. We're also telling stories that are hard to believe.

April 17, 1877 We're getting closer to the end of the cattle drive. I hope we get their soon. I'm getting tired.

April 30, 1877 Wahooo! We're at the cattle drive. Boy am I happy. It was a long walk. Next I'm going to go back to get some more cattle.

=__Cowboy__= Many cowboys loved to wear hats. Many wore bandanas to protect them from getting sunburn on their neck. Most cowboys loved simple shirts made of linen, cotton, and wool.

=__Boss__= When they put a symbol letter or design on a rod and heated they call it a brand. They used cattle for branding to. A guy named Cortes branded the letter G for Guerra onto the cheeks of indians. Indians were trained to be vaqueros. In the early years of cattle rancher's brands were simple. An initial or number burned onto a calf was enough to indicate who owned the animal.

=__Cook__= Back in the Old West they had to carry there food in a cloth sack. Then someone invented what we know as the wagon. They called it the Chuck Wagon because the person who designed and made the wagon was Charles Goodnight.

=__Wrangler__= = = Most wranglers were young. Their primary responsibility was to care for the remuda. He had to wake up early to wrangle the horse that got out of their area during night. He had to keep them together til the other cowboys rose.

=A Tall Tale:= = The Story Of Buddy Clark =

There once was a cowboy named Buddy​ Clark. His feet were huge. Although his name was Buddy Clark, he didn't have a buddy. He didn't have one because he couldn't rope.Everyone knows to be a cowboy you have to be able to rope. He had a difficult time doing his job.

All of the cowboys in town would laugh at him because he could not wrangle cattle and his feet were huge. His feet made him run slower because they were huge. They were bigger than a dinosaur's foot! He would just trip every attempt to wrangle cattle. He then saw a shoe shop when he was walking in town. They had shoes his size. He put a pair on and they fit so he bought them.

Then outside he saw some cattle.There was a huge herd of them! He was getting scared! There was at least 1,000,000 cattle! It was a huge stampede! It was heading toward the saloon! Luckily Mr. Clark got out his rope and wrangled all the cattle. From then on he caught all the cattle he saw from then on. Buddy caught 10,000 cattle in one year. He also made new friends. He was known for the Most Cattle ever wrangled in one single year. The whole entire world knew he was the person who wrangled the most cattle in one single year.