Wyoming Cattle Trails Author:John K. Rollinson History of the migration of Oregon-raised herds to mid-Western markets. "If you got any rabbit in you," said one old trail boss, "you'd better go bury it before you draw your string from this cavvy." By the time you have read Wyoming Cattle Trails you are convinced that the cowboy had no rabbit in him, and little or nothing of the glamor commo... more »nly associated with cowboys today. Rollinson, who was in his early youth a cowboy in Wyoming and later owned and managed both cattle and horse ranches in the same state, knows the cowboy and his environment as well. The cattle brought with the pioneers to Oregon, mostly Durham or shorthorn stock, multiplied rapidly in that lush land. There was no market for them, however, until the cattle companies in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho realized what their source of supply might be. This is the story, told for the first time, unvarnished, sincere, and in true cowboy jargon, of the eastward movement of the Oregon cattle, the later destruction of open-range grazing, the development of the Wyoming Cattle Growers' Association, and the final influx of sheep growers and dry farmers, and the effect thereof. Today, the warnings of the cattlemen that the upturning of the sod should bring dust and disaster, have in some sections, come to pass. Old-timers who rode the trails, or were trail bosses, give their versions of the trail drives in their own vigorous and unpretentious prose, homely, comfortably free from any sort of pose. It is from such primary sources that the actual history and atmosphere of a time of life now lost forever may be recaptured and relived again.« less