7 Essential Survival Skills That Kept Cowboys Alive on the Frontier

Описание: The dust cloud rises like smoke from hell itself.

Jake Morrison leads 2,500 head of longhorn cattle across the Texas panhandle. Three weeks into a drive that will take him 1,500 miles north to Kansas. But this isn't just about moving cattle.

This is about survival in a land that kills the unprepared without mercy.

What separated the living from the dead on these drives? What skills kept a cowboy breathing when everything around him wanted him buried in the prairie dirt?

These seven skills weren't just part of the job—they were the difference between making it to Kansas or becoming another unmarked grave on the Chisholm Trail. But master them wrong... and the frontier claims another victim.

My name is Sam, and this is Wild America.


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CHAPTERS:

0:00 – Introduction: The deadly cattle drive
1:02 – Number One: Reading the Land Like a Book
7:45 – Number Two: The Rope – Sixty Feet of Survival
12:40 – Number Three: Horse Psychology & Veterinary Medicine
20:55 – Number Four: Frontier Medicine & Surgery
27:15 – Number Five: Blacksmithing & Equipment Repair
36:10 – Number Six: Hunting & Foraging for Survival
42:20 – Number Seven: The Unwritten Code of Survival
48:10 – Conclusion: Invisible preparation, visible results
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