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Con Price
1869–1958
A real open-range cowboy, he turned a life of cattle drives, ranch work, and frontier hardships into vivid memoirs of the American West. His writing feels firsthand because it is: plainspoken, observant, and full of the people and places he actually knew.
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Memories of Old Montana
by Con Price
About the author
Born in Manchester, Iowa, in 1869, Con Price grew up during the years when his family moved west to the Black Hills of South Dakota. As a teenager he went to work as a cowboy, and by the late 1880s he was riding and working on ranches in Montana, building the kind of practical, hard-earned knowledge that later shaped his books.
Price is best known for Memories of Old Montana, a memoir drawn from decades of life in the cattle country of the Northern Plains. The book looks back on ranch work, trail life, frontier communities, and the changing West with the perspective of someone who had seen it firsthand rather than from a distance.
Archival records also show that his papers were preserved at the University of Nevada, Reno, and they connect him with western figures including the artist Charles M. Russell. He died in 1958, leaving behind writing that readers still value for its direct voice and its lived picture of open-range life.