Cowboy life looked open to anyone willing to try. But the work had a way of sorting men fast.

Out on the frontier, there was no application, no interview, and no easy way to fake it for long. A man could admire the cowboy life, but whether he could endure it was another matter entirely.

In this episode of Way Out West, learn the hard truth behind cowboy labor in the Old West. Heat, cold, dust, danger, repetition, and long days in the saddle did more than test a man’s strength. They revealed his usefulness, his steadiness, and whether he could be counted on when the work got hard.

The cowboy became a legend, in part, because the job demanded so much. Not everybody could hold it.

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