This authentic and highly readable account of cowboy life in South Dakota in the early years of this century, told by one who lived through those days himself as a cowboy, holds little gunplay and nothing of trigger-happy sheriff. Instead it tells of life on a new cattle range, of cattle and the men who herded them. Well told and unadorned, Dakota Cowboy should find a temporary place on the shelves of lending libraries and a permanent one in Western historical libraries.