I am coming in to check email, mail, and clean my desk (not going well). I am offering the following article from the Oklahoma Rural News, October 1975: “The cowboy of the Old West really only existed for about 40 or 50 years, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the 20th Century. Longhorns, or “critters” as they were called by their owners and handlers, had the ability to stay…