Young Cowboy Part 1
It all started back in 1864 or maybe it was 1863, didn’t really have much use in dates and months back then, just when to plant and when to harvest, and other necessities of life like huntin and fishin, stuff like that My family were farmers up there in West Virginia and trying to make ends meet, put food on the table and so forth. Then that damn war started getting closer and closer. People were packing up and heading West to get away from all that bloodshed. I was the youngest of 4 boys, my pa and two of my brothers had already been killed by the Yankees and last I heard, my other brother was a prisoner somewhere up North. I was 18 years old and doing the work of 5 men and …