Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack, credited to Frank Benton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack by Frank Benton. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Dale Latham; Francisco; Bill Mosley; Wayne Anderson; AnthonyJackson; Kim Gibbs; Michele Fry; Sonia; DrPGould Frank Benton, himself a wealthy rancher, provides a series of first-hand sketches of cowboy life of the late 19th and early 20th century from stories gathered from the "sidetrack." These were working cowpunchers with a subculture of their own who did the day-to-day work of the ranches. This is an important part of American history preserved for us in these stories. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack
• Author credits: Frank Benton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 3:39:40

Catalogue topics

• history
• Americana
• old west
• cowboy
• cattleman
• sheepman
• roundup
• rancher

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 00 - Dedication and Preface — 2:24
2. 01 - The Start — 10:39
3. 02 - Chuckwagon's Dream — 7:31
4. 03 - Grazing the Sheep — 4:41
5. 04 - Letters from Home Brought by Immigrants — 7:04
6. 05 - Eatumup Jake's Life Story — 4:39
7. 06 - The Schoolmarm's Saddle Horse — 5:44
8. 07 - Selling Cattle on the Range — 7:10
9. 08 - True Snake Stories — 5:48
10. 09 - Chuckwagon's Death — 8:21
11. 10 - Disappearance of the Sheepmen — 9:28
12. 11 - Our Arrival in Cheyenne — 7:45
13. 12 - The Post-Hole Digger's Ghost — 7:37
14. 13 - Grafting — 5:34
15. 14 - The File — 5:29
16. 15 - The Cattle Stampede — 10:51
17. 16 - Catching a Maverick — 12:52
18. 17 - Stealing Crazy Head's War Ponies — 15:50
19. 18 - The Cattle Queen's Ghost — 15:14
20. 19 - Packsaddle Jack's Death — 17:09
21. 20 - A Cowboy Enoch Arden — 8:14
22. 21 - Grand Island — 4:48
23. 22 - ''Sarer'' — 16:40
24. 23 - Arrival at South Omaha Transfer — 16:17

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