In this work, the composer depicts an adventurous day in the life of a cowboy. As he rides his horse across the plains, clouds of ‘cowboy dust’ whirl up behind him. He rides over the prairie, faces dangerous snakes, gallops across dusty fields and stumbles upon an ambush of bandits.

In the gunfight that follows, he is the victor, and he rides along the prairie a silent hero, on his way to another adventure.