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    Around the Campfire, Stories from the Old West
    Around the Campfire, Stories from the Old West
    Around the Campfire, Stories from the Old West
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    Around the Campfire, Stories from the Old West

    By D R Hann

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    Ten cowboys are sitting around a campfire after a long day on a cattle drive.
    After a meal of beans, a slab of bacon and hardtack, it’s time for some entertainment, sometimes someone breaks out a harmonica or guitar and starts to play, other times someone reads from a book, magazine or newspaper.
    On this night, it is the most popular type of entertainment, that of storytelling.
    Some stories are true, but most are just tall tales, which makes for a much better story.
    So grab a cup of coffee or whatever your pleasure is, sit back, relax and be entertained by the cowboys sitting around the campfire as they tell you their best stories, false, true or to some degree based on some facts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD R Hann
    Release dateJul 25, 2018
    ISBN9780463746813
    Around the Campfire, Stories from the Old West
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    D R Hann

    Just a story teller, not a Leo Tolstoy. You'll either like my books, or hate them. Remember, keep going forward.

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      Around the Campfire, Stories from the Old West - D R Hann

      Around the Campfire, Stories from the Old West

      By D R Hann

      PDH Publisher

      Copyrights and Notices

      Copyright © 2018 by D.R. Hann

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the author, me, D. R. Hann.

      Some names, characters, places and or incidents are fictitious and are of the author’s imagination.

      Synopsis

      Ten cowboys are sitting around a campfire after a long day on a cattle drive.

      After a meal of beans, a slab of bacon and hardtack, it’s time for some entertainment, sometimes someone breaks out a harmonica or guitar and starts to play, other times someone reads from a book, magazine or newspaper.

      On this night, it is the most popular type of entertainment, that of storytelling.

      Some stories are true, but most are just tall tales, which makes for a much better story.

      So grab a cup of coffee or whatever your pleasure is, sit back, relax and be entertained by the cowboys sitting around the campfire as they tell you their best stories, false, true or to some degree based on some facts.

      So Many Ways to Die

      "It was 1876 right after that Custer thing.

      It was autumn, and the leaves on the trees started to change as they do every year.

      Last year it was a brutal winter up in the Rockies, just hoping it will not be as bad or last as long.

      The Rockies, you are lucky if you survive one year.

      For if the Indians don’t scalp you then maybe a grizzly will eat you, a moose will trample you to death, or it could be death by desperados, the breaking of a limb, drowning, or falling through the ice.

      There are so many ways to die up there.

      I once knew a fellow named Skinner Bob, damn good Mountain man and good at surviving.

      Unfortunately, Bob did not survive that brutal winter which I speak about."

      Was it because it was a brutal long hard freezing winter?

      No

      Was it Indians who scalped mountain man Skinner Bob?

      No

      It was a grizzly bear that killed Bob?

      No, was no grizzly bear which did Bob in.

      Then it had to be a moose that did Bob in?

      Nope, it was no moose.

      I have the answer; it was old man winter that did Bob in.

      No, it was not old man winter.

      We all give up, what the hell did mountain man Skinner Bob in?

      "This is my story, every word which passes my lips I swear are true and if not may I be eaten by a grizzly, scalped by an Indian, trampled by a moose, or fall through a frozen river.

      Mountain man Skinner Bob was in the thirty-eighth year of his life.

      He had been a mountain man up in the Rockies for twenty years and knew every hill, cave, trail and mountain pass.

      Skinner Bob knew where most grizzlies were and most important knew the Indian tribes of the Rockies, The Apache, Comanche, and Shoshone were the tribes Skinner Bob had a watchful eye for, but it was a gift of furs which always gave him a safe passage.

      There were other tribes such as Arapaho, Cheyenne, Pueblo, Navajo and the Kiowa, but these tribes always welcomed him; there was no need for fur gifts.

      Skinner Bob was part of the Rocky Mountains, which goes on for some 3,000 miles from up in Canada all the way down to New Mexico.

      So in September 1876, Skinner Bob set out to what he had always done, acquire furs and lots of them.

      Skinner Bob, by all accounts, was a wealthy man, and you may wonder if he had all the money he

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