By Jim Russell
Bob Fudge lived in the American West of the late 1800s and early 1900s, and told stories about the cowboy life of the Old American West. Readers will enjoy Bob’s account of life with Indians, stampeding cattle herds, roundups, and cowboys caring for their cattle as they trail them from Texas to the lush grasses of Montana territory along the Yellowstone range. During his long colorful career as a trail rider, Bob Fudge drove contract cattle herds from, worked on several cattle ranches in Montana and later settled in Powder River Country in southeastern Montana. Bob was a skilled storyteller who shared what he’d seen and done throughout his time as a cattleman. During the winter of 1932, author James Russell listened to and documented Bob’s stories in handwritten notes, which were originally published in … as Bob Fudge: Texas Trail Driver, Montana – Wyoming Cowboy 1862–1933.
Read Riding for the Brand: The Ballad of Bob Fudge in Cowboys and Indians Magazine (5/24/2023).