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hold his own. The work, too, is often 

 hard and often wearisome from mere 

 sameness. It is generally done on horse- 

 back even on a sheep ranch, and always 

 on a cow ranch. The beginner must 

 learn to ride with indifference all kinds of 

 rough and dangerous horses before he 

 will be worth his keep. 



With all this before him, the beginner 

 will speedily find out that life on a 

 Western ranch is very far from being a 

 mere holiday. A young man who desires 

 to start in the life ought, if possible, to 

 have with him a little money just 

 enough to keep body and soul together 

 until he can gain a foothold somewhere. 



No specific directions can be given him 

 as to where to start. Wyoming, most 

 of Montana, the western edge of the 

 Dakotas, western Texas, and some por- 

 tions of the Rocky Mountain States still 

 offer chances for a man to go into the 

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