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Outperforming all the Hollywood "Wild West" hype, Milford Hill Donoho (1844-1921) himself a cowboy (who later retired as a judge and moved to Hollywood), writes a book in narrative form of the many dangers and difficulties faced by real cowboys like himself in Texas, Kansas, and Indian Territory (Oklahoma) during the true Wild West days of the 1860s and 70s.
Donoho's 1907 book "Circle-Dot: A True Story of Cowboy Life Forty Years Ago," is considered one of the best works written by an early Kansas author. According to the KC Times, Jan. 1, 1948, Donoho's book "is largely biographical and recount's the judge's early years as a cowboy."
In introducing his book, Donoho writes:
"To travel over the ground where these cattle once grazed in countless numbers...makes the old cowboy long to again see the prairies covered with long horned cattle, picturesque wild horses, and herds of innumerable buffaloes; to once more ride the bucking broncho in pursuit of the wild steer and the fighting maverick; to hear the coyote's howl and the stampede's roar; to inhale the aroma of wild flowers whilst breathing the life-giving air that blows across the free and untrammeled plains, where the sun rises and sets in a halo of glory, where you have that thrilling of the heart, that buoyancy of spirit, that drives away every care and makes you laugh at danger."
Donoho's 1907 book "Circle-Dot: A True Story of Cowboy Life Forty Years Ago," is considered one of the best works written by an early Kansas author. According to the KC Times, Jan. 1, 1948, Donoho's book "is largely biographical and recount's the judge's early years as a cowboy."
In introducing his book, Donoho writes:
"To travel over the ground where these cattle once grazed in countless numbers...makes the old cowboy long to again see the prairies covered with long horned cattle, picturesque wild horses, and herds of innumerable buffaloes; to once more ride the bucking broncho in pursuit of the wild steer and the fighting maverick; to hear the coyote's howl and the stampede's roar; to inhale the aroma of wild flowers whilst breathing the life-giving air that blows across the free and untrammeled plains, where the sun rises and sets in a halo of glory, where you have that thrilling of the heart, that buoyancy of spirit, that drives away every care and makes you laugh at danger."