The story of the cattle barons has often overshadowed the experiences of the common cowboy on whose labor the ranchers wealth was built. Malcolm McLeod recorded the life of privation and danger of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century mixed-blood cowboy. He worked for cattle owners across Montana and in southern British Columbia and eastern Washington. Born in Washington Territory in 1870 of Scotch, French Canadian, and Chippewa Indian heritage, McLeod traveled countless miles over the years. But home remained the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, where he was...
The story of the cattle barons has often overshadowed the experiences of the common cowboy on whose labor the ranchers wealth was built. Malcolm McLeo...
