Straws in the Wind

“One can thresh the straw of history until he is well worn out, and also is running some risk of wearing others out who may have to listen. So I will waive the telling of who the first cowboy was, even if I knew; but the last one who has come under my observation lives down in Florida... ”Thus began Frederic Remington’s 1895 article, “Cracker Cowboys of Florida,” for Harper’s Magazine. He was not too impressed with these cowboys, compared to those he had seen out West. He called t