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The character of the West was molded by a wide variety of rugged individualists: trappers, traders, prospectors and enterprisers. But the men and women who gave it permanency were the first settlers. Buying cattle from the Mexicans in Texas, these hardy souls drove the herds northward across the Great Plains to the Rocky Mountains. They built ranches, put down roots and made the land productive. For the most part, they were tough, singleminded business people on horseback who knew how to survive in an isolated, inhospitable region that offered only wild prairie grass and an occasional free flowing stream. They learned how to cope with solitude, failure and backbreaking toil, while battling the hazards of nature and each other. Some survived and some didn't. But many of those who did -- men like Texans Charles Goodnight and Richard King, Wyoming's Francis Warren, New Mexico's John Chisum and Montana's Conrad Kohrs -- became legendary and accumulated enormous power and wealth. The years...