Tuesday, September 02, 2008

The last of the real cowboys Tall, large boned, rugged in countenance, brown-red in complexion, Charlie Fenton of Big Bar, clothed in blue jeans, cowboy boots and wide brimmed hat, represented the kind of strength of character and endurance western novelists like Zane Grey and Louis Lamour described so accurately. But it was a wonder to a few that such persons actually lived among us, were not figments of the imagination of these prolific writers. Charlie was a native son of Big Bar, a country so vast and empty, so wild and free, and still so relatively unpopulated that it is difficult for those of us living in the rural centres that we do, to imagine....

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