This jug is a great way to add some decor to your home. It is alsogreat for adding some old fashioned character to your store or place ofbusiness. This old jug is a great collectible with a rustic old westernlook. The cork on this one has some ware. This jug is 11" tall and5-1/2" wide. You can start a band with a jug like this. This is a greatreplica of years gone by.

The cowboy was born in 1866 with the first herd of Texaslonghorns trailed across hundreds of miles of wild and dangerouscountry, filled with predators and hostile Indians, to the wide opentown of Abilene.... created by the Kansas Pacific Railroad as thewestern frontier rail head for shipping cattle East. From that time onthe big Texas cattle drives fed the market for a beef-hungry America.Six hundred thousand cattle came up the Texas trail in 1871 in herds ofabout 2,000 each led by a wild and reckless and tough bunch of youngmen with great courage and fortitude. Huge numbers of longhorn cattlehad multiplied in Texas after the Civil War, the result of fewpredators, few fences and plenty of grass and water. They ran wildwhile Texas men went off to fight for the Confederacy. Cow-gatheringwas a challenge but getting a herd all the way to the Kansas railroadpaid big. Early cowboys had very little grub (mostly corn meal andsalted bacon,) used homemade saddles and chaps, no tents or tarps,braided their own rope from horsehair, and bragged they could go anyplace a cow could, and stand anything a horse could. Lay on your saddleblanket and cover with a coat was the Texas trail bed. Thetwelve-inch-barrel Colt was necessary equipment. Strong, lightweightand wiry men who were persevering and loyal defined a new Americanspirit of freedom and independence. Mothers shared great pride inseeing their sons grow up to be cowboys.

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