Cowboy Stories

The Bedaux Expedition was an attempt by eccentric French millionaire,Charles Eugène Bedaux to cross the British Columbia wilderness, while making a movie, testing Citroën half-tracks and generating publicity for himself. He set off on this unusual and ill-conceived excursion accompanied by more than a hundred people,. Also along for the trip were several dozen Alberta cowboys and a large film crew. The expedition started off at Edmonton, Alberta on July 6, 1934 and their goal was to travel 1,500 miles (2,400 km) to Telegraph Creek, British Columbia. Much of the trip would have to be made through regions that were relatively uncharted and had no trail  -  wiki (here)

                                                                            Attribution: Frank Swannell
Image: The Alberta cowboys who were with the Bedaux Expedition
Source: Wikimedia Commons (here)

                                                                      Atrribution: MGM Records
Image: Hank Williams and The Drifting Cowboys
Source: Wikimedia Commons (here)

                                                                              Attribution: Richie Diesterheft
Image: The Brokeback Cowboys all in twos
Source: Wikimedia Commons (here)

Cowboy stories ran the whole gamut

Of the hazardous the pain and the skill

Of roving able-bodied men who sought

The Wild West taking with them the zeal

Of rounding up, to brand and tame

Wild steers across plains or in ranches

Giving rise to likes of Hollywood fame

Cowboy greats Gene Autry and Roy Rogers

When later came the makes of films Italian

In the likes of Clint Eastwoods and Franco Nero 

that gave a new life to blood spills and guns 

Very unlike the rough ride of the Expedition Bedaux

That trekked through uncharted terrains

And the romances of love life in songs

of the Drifting Cowboys and Hank Williams 

To  the modern day tough and tumble
of such fascinating teams like the Dallas Cowboys

In posh and grand stadiums of football
complete with alluring cheerleaders as a ploy

Until recently when liberal resurgence

made the manly able-bodied he-man surge

to a higher level where companions

by twos of Brokeback Cowboys emerge

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