Monte Walsh

Monte Walsh could bust a bronco, turn a stampede, survive on mashed beans, take on two in a brawl, string barbed-wire barehanded, and do anything else that needed to be done.

He was the kind of man who preferred coffee to whiskey and horseback to an easy chair. Living in a routine where every day would seem alike if the weather weren't so cantankerous, Monte and his friends at the Slash Y Ranch typify what was strongest, most honest, and most admirable about the cowboys at the turn of the century.