Show theodore roosevelt Roosevel fc on cowboys they are smaller and less muscular than the wielders of ax and pick but bat they are areas as hardy and self relia reliant nt as any men who ever breathed with bronzed I 1 set faces and keen eyes that look all the world straight stra igat in ili the face without flinching as they flash out from under the broad brimmed hats hate peril and hardship and years of long tell broken by weeks of brutal dissipation draw aggard atnes across their eager faces but never dim their reckless eyes nor break their bearing of defiant self confidence they do norwalk not walk well partly because they so rarely do any work out of the saddle partly because their arleather leather or leather overalls hamper them when on the ground but their appearance is striking for all that picturesque too with the clug 6 spurs urs the big revolvers stuck in their belta belts and ir bright silk handkerchiefs knotted loosely round their necks open collars of the flannel shirts when drunk on the villainous whiskey of the frontier towns they cut mad antics riding their horses into the saloons firing their pistols right and left from boisterous lightheartedness light heartedness rather than from any viciousness and indulging tod often in deadly shooting af frays brought on either by the accidental contact of the moment or on account of some long standing grudge or perhaps because of bad blood between two ranches or localities but except while on such sprees they are quiet rather self contained meu men perfectly frank and simple and on their own ground treat a stranger with the most whole hospitality doing all in their power tor for him and scorning to take any reward in return the century en lury |