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• Making A Tenderfoot Dance

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• Making A Tenderfoot Dance
  

TRANSCRIPTION: It was not a mistake that cowboys were called such, and not cowmen. When not at work, they were boys in everything but size and years. Their idea of something to laugh at was a rough bit of horseplay, carried out with absolute recklessness and in perfect humor. Any tenderfoot who made himself obtrusive was considered fair game. A popular means of having fun with him was to make him dance to the music of a big Colt, which spattered an occasional bullet under his feet to make him step higher. In the old days, when the cowboys came to town, anybody “disturbing the peace,” as they would say, by wearing a silk hat, was liable to have it shot full of holes to punish the ignorant or careless violation of range customs. Anybody who kept in the background and minded his own business was seldom molested, even in those times. Nowadays a “hard hat” may be worn anywhere with impunity.