Cowboy's Trail

Cowboy's Trail is loosely based on the historic Cowboy Trail that runs from Cardston in southern Alberta not far from the Montana border to Mayerthorpe in Central Alberta. The actual trail is 640 km from south to north, it follows the eastern side of the Canadian Rockies for a picturesque trip. As a writer I took the creative liberty of extending this trail east and west. The places mentioned in the poems are actual places to be found in Alberta, but once again artistic license was taken with some of the places. (One would not shower in the actual Ram River Falls). Only the enigmatic Cowboy, the Man of Mystique is a work of fiction. Or is he...