The Wickwire Journals: Book One: Becoming a Wyoming Cowboy($32.95Value)

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The Wickwire Journals is a unique, three-part biography series that uses the extensive, never-before-published personal journals of Byron Wickwire (1863-1943) to provide an authentic, ground-level account of the settling of the American West. The series offers a fresh perspective, moving beyond romanticized myths to reveal the gritty realities of historic moments in frontier life, the Wyoming Cattle Boom, the Klondike Gold Rush, and the challenges of law enforcement in the early 20th century. The central unique selling point is the reliance on Byron's own meticulous, first-hand accounts, offering an unparalleled primary source narrative of an everyman who lived an extraordinary life of integrity. Book 1: 1863-1897 Becoming a Wyoming Cowboy Chronicles Byron's journey from a childhood in New York to a seasoned cowboy in Wyoming. It covers his family's migration west with the railroads, homesteading in Nebraska, Native American encounters and friendships, learning the ropes of ranching, and becoming part of the historic 1883 beef boom in Wyoming. This volume provides an authentic look at the realities of homesteading and building a life from scratch on the frontier. Leon Schatz was born and raised in Sheridan, Wyoming, where tales of outlaws, trailblazers, and rugged frontier life were part of everyday conversation. A filmmaker and storyteller with a deep love for Western history, Schatz has spent over a decade researching the life of Byron F. Wickwire after discovering the cowboy's original journals during a film project in Hyattville, Wyoming.