The Western Frontier Library
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Release : 1959
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Release : 1959
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Release : 1961
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Author : James Henry Cook
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Cattle trade
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The experiences of pioneer and cowboy, James H. Cook, a descendent of Captain Cook.
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File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 1957
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Author : Frank Collinson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 MB
Release : 1997-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806129235
Englishman Frank Collinson went to Texas in 1872, when he was seventeen, to work on Will Noonan’s ranch near Castroville. He lived the rest of his life in the southwestern United States, and at the age of seventy-nine began writing about the Old West he knew and loved. He had a flair for writing, a phenomenal memory, and a passion for truth that is evident in what he wrote and said. His writings for Ranch Romances, his letters, and transcriptions of his conversations have been arranged here in roughly chronological order, so that their importance for frontier history is readily apparent. Collinson ranged the West in his writings as he did in person, telling of the last tragic days of buffalo hunting on the Plains; clashes between hunters or cowboys and the Plains Indians; the character of trail drivers; and the definitive nature of violence, particularly at gun-point. J. Frank Dobie said of Collinson: "In the realm of frontier chronicles, the writing of educated Englishmen. . . men with the perspective of civilization, with imagination, and a lust for primitive nature, stand out. To this class of men belongs Frank Collinson."
Author : Will Henry
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780242787341
A collection of stories about children set in the Old West.
Author : Laverne Hanners
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 1998-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806130552
Girl on a Pony is the gritty, humorous, unflinchingly courageous story of five children growing up on a cattle ranch in the remote Valley of the Dry Cimarron in northeastern New Mexico near the little border town of Kenton, Oklahoma. Narrated years later by the oldest daughter, LaVerne, it is a vivid and authentic portrait of ranching life between the two world wars, from 1925, when the family moved to the Goodson Ranch from a half-dugout claim shack in Colorado, to 1936, when they began to disperse. During those years, people in the region endured blizzards, sick and maddened animals, drought, the Dust Bowl, and the Great Depression-with stoic good humor. In Girl on a Pony, cowboys go about their daily tasks, teaching the children all they know. Women endure the hardships of life in an isolated area, coping with the brutal labor ranch life requires of them, and maintaining touches of beauty and civilization where they can-creating lawns from relentlessly rocky soil, holding dances for their children, and painstakingly tatting when all else fails.
Author : Leon C. Metz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806124872
Before Dallas Stoudenmire accepted the position as marshal of El Paso, there existed no authority except that of the six-shooter, and very little precedent for a peace officer to follow. No one before had held the job for more than a couple of months. Yet, within two years, with the help of Jim Gillett, his young deputy, Stoudenmire had cleaned up the town, a task that earned him many enemies and, in the end, death. This is the story of Dallas Stoudenmire-auburn-haired, fiery-eyed, six-foot, two-inch gunfighter, container of laughter, liquor, and death-during the two tumultuous years in the early 1880’s when he served as almost the only law north of the Rio Grande and west of Fort Worth.
Author : Donna M. Stephens
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Page : 173 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780806123134
Stephens, the daughter of the schoolteacher, details the experiences and challenges faced by Helen Hussman Morris as a teacher in rural Oklahoma during the Depression era. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Eugene Manlove Rhodes
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Western stories
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