One of the most unpredictable, harrowing, sometimes embarrassing and always painful misfortunes that a cowboy could expect in the Old West was being bucked off, knocked off or even shot off his trusty horse. At least a few times during his career in the saddle, every frontier cowboy could expect to be introduced to terra firma with whatever gravity and unpredicta


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