no life for a lady by agnes morley cleaveland

It was there that she learned to ride and tend cattle. ' Cleaveland was sent east during the school year to attend boarding schools, but she returned every summer to the family ranch in Datil Canyon. We can't turn around in the middle of the furrow. Her parents worried about bringing up their daughter in the rough and turbulent atmosphere of the West, but, as her father said to her mother, 'Well, Ada, we've put our hands to this plow. Of southwestern New Mexico, near the village of Magdalena. Born Agnes Morley in 1874 to a renowned railroad engineer who owned plots of land throughout the West, Miss Agnes, as she was known on the ranch, grew up in the high desert country On small farms and ranches in the Far West, women often had to do much of the same work as men, as well as cook and take care of the children.Īgnes Morley Cleaveland was not a cowboy, but she was as close as a woman came to being a real cowgirl. Ranchers' wives worked alongside their husbands to build the ranches that were the bases for cattle drives. However, most women-like most cowboys-led more ordinary lives than the legends indicate. In the rowdy cattle towns that popped up across Kansas, dance hall girls and prostitutes were very colorful figures. Horse thief and cattle rustler Belle Starr was widely known as the female Jesse James, and Calamity Jane was as celebrated as Wild Bill Hickok for her exploits with a gun.

In fact, some of the infamous female figures in the West were as romanticized as their male counterparts. But that didn't mean that women didn't play an important role in the cattle boom of the late nineteenth century. N° de ref.In the 1800s cattle drives were considered men's work. He would lie along his pony's neck in a flank-to-flank race with some cow brute until his horse got a nose -length ahead, then he'd lean over and slap the animal in the face with a length of rope and both would turn in their tracks with such sudden. Spine fine, colours bright, binding tight. No names, marks, creases, stains, nor tears. Front cover graphic shows the author riding side-saddle at moonlight.

Cond : Paper wrapper is sky blue with white lettering. In these 356 pages, illustrated by Edward Borein, you will learmn MORE about : Raton Pass, pito, Nogales, Clay Allison, Jack Howard Flat, hydrophobia, Gene Rhodes, Maxwell Land Grant, Arroyo Seco, a grizzly bear, Putney Mesa, soogins, Long Lick, Annie the Chambermaid, and Bad Man Pete.

The author's mother, Ada McPherson, came to the town of Cimarron, New Mexico about 1872, to marry the author's father, William Raymond Morley, who was an engineer on the building project of the Santa Fe Railroad.

No life for a lady by agnes morley cleaveland