M. K. Brown Range Life Series – serie
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15 produkter
Vaqueros, Cowboys, and Buckaroos
Av Lawrence Clayton, Jim Hoy m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
327 kr
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Herding cattle from horseback has been a tradition in northern Mexico and the American West since the Spanish colonial era. The first mounted herders were the Mexican vaqueros, expert horsemen who developed the skills to work cattle in the brush country and deserts of the Southwestern borderlands. …
Still
Cowboys at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
Av Robb Kendrick, Marianne Wiggins
Inbunden, 2008
583 kr
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The cowboy may well be the quintessential American icon. Robb Kendrick has been photographing cowboys for twenty-five years, creating a magnificent artistic record that recalls the work of earlier photographers such as Edward S. Curtis, whose portraits of Native Americans have become classics. …
Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull
Inventing the Wild West
Häftad, 2002
532 kr
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Army scout, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, and impresario of the world-renowned "Wild West Show," William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody lived the real American West and also helped create the "West of the imagination." Born in 1846, he took part in the great westward migration, hunted the buffalo, and …
Facts As I Remember Them
The Autobiography of Rufe LeFors
Av Rufe LeFors, John Allen Peterson
Häftad, 1986
232 kr
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The rivers of the Texas Panhandle, the Canadian, and the forks of the Red break through the Cap Rock at the eastern edge of the Staked Plains. It’s rough, bleak country, with few trees and a great expanse of sky. Storms that form on the Great Plains and in the Rocky Mountains sweep through with …
Taft Ranch
A Texas Principality
Häftad, 1964
342 kr
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For fifty years the progressive Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company, popularly known as the Taft Ranch, led in the development of South Texas, and in the early twentieth century achieved national and international repute for its contributions to agriculture. The story of the ranch reaches its climax as …
If I Can Do It Horseback
A Cow-Country Sketchbook
Av John Hendrix
Häftad, 1963
414 kr
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John Hendrix drew upon his own varied experiences for this panoramic view of West Texas ranch life, presented here in an integral compilation of flavorful articles written originally for The Cattleman. Touching upon virtually every facet of the cattle industry, they examine economic influences and …
Texas Land and Development Company
A Panhandle Promotion, 1912-1956
Av B.R. Brunson
Häftad, 1970
283 kr
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Agricultural and urban development came late to the Texas South Plains, and frontier life lingered well into the twentieth century. In the decade preceding World War I numerous land companies flourished in the area and acted as catalysts for settlement and economic expansion. Prominent among these …
Twilight on the Range
Recollections of a Latterday Cowboy
Häftad, 1971
292 kr
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Billie Timmons was fourteen when he met Charles Goodnight-over a wagonload of manure that had been jammed on a gatepost-and he went to work on the Goodnight Cross J Ranch shortly thereafter. The spirit of helpfulness that led Mr. Goodnight to strip off his coat and lift the wagon free for a lad in …
Land of Bright Promise
Advertising the Texas Panhandle and South Plains, 1870-1917
Av Jan Blodgett
Häftad, 1988
225 kr
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“It shall be the chosen land, perpetual sunshine shall kiss its trees and vines, and, being storied in luscious fruits and compressed into ruddy wine, will be sent to the four points of the compass to gladden the hearts of all mankind . . . They will breathe the pure and bracing air, bask in the …
LS Brand
The Story of a Texas Panhandle Ranch
Häftad, 1968
225 kr
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In the spring of 1881, W. M. D. Lee and Lucien B. Scott, wealthy businessmen of Leavenworth, Kansas, purchased land in the upper Texas Panhandle to establish the Lee-Scott Cattle Company. Their range sprawled across four Texas counties and extended into eastern New Mexico. About six months later, …
6000 Miles of Fence
Av Cordia Sloan Duke, Joe B. Frantz
Häftad, 1961
313 kr
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The fabulous XIT Ranch has been celebrated in song, story, and serious history. This book of reminiscences of old XIT cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch run. Their forthright, yet picturesque, discussion of ranching hardships and dangers dissipates …
Francklyn Land & Cattle Company
A Panhandle Enterprise, 1882-1957
Häftad, 1963
458 kr
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An intensive study of a large Texas ranch, particularly of its business and financial aspects, in which the author has utilized many company records and firsthand accounts by the men who were engaged in the difficult task of establishing and maintaining a major cattle and land operation in wild, …
Franco-Texan Land Company
Häftad, 1969
371 kr
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The Franco-Texan Land Company was formed, ostensibly, by the French bondholders of the Memphis, El Paso, and Pacific Railroad in an attempt to salvage their investments through sale of lands in the railroad's Texas land grant. Most of the land company's wealth, however, went into the pockets of …
Littlefield Lands
Colonization on the Texas Plains, 1912–1920
Häftad, 1968
225 kr
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The phenomenon of colonization by big land companies, common throughout the history of the United States, came late to the Panhandle-Plains of West Texas. Ranchers held sway there up into the 20th century. Then, realizing that the future followed the plow, they, joined by business owners and …
Don't Make Me Go to Town
Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country
Inbunden, 2011
423 kr
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Many people dream of "someday buying a small quaint place in the country, to own two cows and watch the birds," in the words of Texas ranchwoman Amanda Spenrath Geistweidt. But only a few are cut out for the unrelenting work that makes a family ranching operation successful. Don't Make Me Go to …
