Buddy+Clark

= //**Welcome to my Journal/Memoir about "The Wild, Wild, West"**// =

=__**Journal Entries**__= April 26,1878

Today I made some good mula. I caught lots oof cattle and kept them in place. One ran away but me ,and El Diablo caught em ,and brought him back to the ranch. By the way El Diablo is my horse hes been with me for 5 years now helping me make more mula. I always try to give him good food every once in a while because he helps me he's my pardner.

April 29,1878 I got into a fight on the trail today it wasn't much fun. Even though I won I still have a broken toe. That man dropped a 75 pound weight on it.

April 30,1878 I caught my first Longhorn today. I've been practicing on posts and cattle but it was just the coolest thing. It was kinda like an adrenaline rush.

=**__//Cowboy//__**=

Today I learned about all of the cowboy garb.(clothing). This is all of the Cowboy "garb" that a cowboy used. All of the cowboy clothing was practical, in other words each piece of clothing had a reason for why it was being worn. Cowboys usually wear what ever they can get their hands on, "like hand me downs". It was a good day today besides that it was very hot today. I also got some shoes and a vest.



=__Cook__= The inventor of the chuckwagon is Charles Goodnight he was the creator of the "Studebaker" that became well known ,and later became the Chuckwagon. The thang that suprised me most was that the cook brings two hundred fifty pounds of BACON!!! I LOVE bacon it is like my favorite food.

=__Wrangler__= April 29,1878 Today I learned what a wrangler is. A wrangler is usually a young boy who is an apprentice to learn the ways of a cowboy.

A Tall Tale: How Cyclone Henry Got His Name

When Henry was a wee little boy, he could stop anything that got in his way. He could overcome any challenge that he faced. He was as smart as a super computer. Once, when Henry was only four and a half years old, a dam broke near his home. It was going to flood the entire town. Within five minutes, Henry had repaired the dam using just lumber and nails. He saved the town!

One day Buddy Clark and Henry were going to "Ye Ole Shoppe". They went there every day to see what was new. When all of the sudden, POW!! Somebody punched Buddy Clark in the face,and if you don,t know how Clark got his name he got it because he was such a softie and never got into fights. The man who punched him ran into the shop with Buddy's wallet. "I'll be right back," said Henry. "Oh Gosh, Oh Gosh!" Buddy said. Henry walked into the shop and came back out in about a minute with Buddy's wallet. By now everyone was running around screaming. What's going on? They wondered. They turned around to go back to the ranch where they worked at when they saw a cyclone coming!!! This cyclone was as tall as the Empire State Building. Now Buddy knew why that man had stolen his wallet to buy a horse and scram! Then a bunch of cowboys came out with Boomer McBride. He screeched at the top of is lungs but the only thing that had happened was he made a little passage into the cyclone. Then Henry got a fantastic idea, he could get Boomer to make the passage then get Diamond Joe's diamonds and hurl them into the inside the cyclone.

At this time the cyclone was almost at the town so now Henry signaled Boomer and then he went to work with Joe. In about two minutes they had thrown all of Joe's diamonds in the cyclone. Joe started to cry because Joe's diamonds were his most prized possessions. Henry came up to him and said "It was for a good cause". Then Boomer shouts "The cyclone stopped HORRAY"!!!!! The next day everyone thought about what Henry's cowboy name should be and they thought since he saved the town from a cyclone maybe his name should be Cyclone Henry. And that is what it is to this very day.

Story Written by: Buddy Clark

=__Boss__= Branding I think branding is important because you would not know who's cattle was who's unless you branded them. If I made a brand it would be a B the was very curvey ,and was like no other brand that you have ever seen before. The state I would register my brand in would be Pennslyvania and also Illinios. Also people used to brand their slaves. I think that slavery is wrong ,and also branding slaves i think is really wrong.