Old-time cowhand turned author Edward C. “Teddy Blue” Abbott wrote that drovers on the long trails north would “follow their wagon boss through hell and never complain.” On the classic TV Western Rawhide cowhands did their share of complaining but usually obeyed the trail boss. Would the drover’s life suit you?
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