Today was National Day of the Cowboy in the United States, a day that recognizes our western heritage, lifestyle and culture. Circuit Riders were preachers that would travel from place to place teaching in as many as 30 locations. They traveled with what could be carried by horse across their territories in the frontier, sometimes taking up to six weeks to complete a circuit. People would gather in cabins, barrooms or outdoors at cow camps to hear some preaching. It was a hard, dangerous life th