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	Ace Reid and the Cowpokes Cartoons By Ace Reid Academy of Texas Press, 1999 Library of Congress NC1429.R434A4 1999 \| Dewey Decimal 741.5973 Winner, Mitchell A. Wilder Award for Publication Blueprint, Texas Association of Museums Folks across the West know a cowpoke named Jake. A expert-hearted guy, he's e'er up to his eyebrows in debt or drought or prickly pears looking for them dad-blamed ole wild cows. In fact, he'due south and so real a fella that information technology'due south difficult to believe that Ace Reid fabricated him up. This book brings together 139 of Ace Reid's popular "Cowpokes" cartoons, reproduced in large format to show the artistry and attention to detail that characterized Reid's piece of work. Grouped around themes such as piece of work, weather, bankers, and friends, they reveal the distinctive "y'all might every bit well laugh equally cry" sense of humor that ranch folks draw on to get through hard work and hard times. In the foreword, Washington Post cartoonist Pat Oliphant offers an appreciation of Reid's "Cowpokes" cartoons, noting that "Ace's piece of work has a magic of its own, and it owes nothing to anyone else." Reid's longtime friend Elmer Kelton recounts Ace's life and career in the introduction, describing how a shy boy who grew upward on ranch piece of work transformed himself into an creative person-entrepreneur who never met a stranger and who made ranch work the subject of his real love, cartooning. This collector's book belongs on the shelf of everyone who loves the "Cowpokes" cartoons, knows a fella like Jake, or enjoys the dry wit of the American cowboy. Expand Description
	Dear Land: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southern Arizona Collected and Edited by Patricia Preciado Martin, with Photographs by José Galvez University of Arizona Press, 2004 Library of Congress F820.M5B35 2004 \| Dewey Decimal 979.170046872009 Doña Ramona Benítez Franco was born in 1902 on her parents' Arizona ranch and historic her hundredth birthday with family and friends in 2002, nonetheless living in her family's century-onetime adobe house. Doña Ramona witnessed many changes in the intervening years, but her memories of the country and customs she knew every bit a child are enduring. For Doña Ramona too equally for endless generations of Mexican Americans, memories of rural life recall la querida tierra, the beloved land. Through good times and bad, the land provided sustenance. Today, many of those homesteads and ranches have succumbed to bulldozers that have brought housing projects and strip malls in their wake. Now a writer and a photographer who have long been intimately involved with Arizona'south Hispanic customs have preserved the voices and images of men and women who are descendants of pioneer ranching and farming families in southern Arizona. Ranging from Tucson to the San Rafael Valley and points in between, this book documents the contributions of Mexican American families whose history and culture are intertwined with the lifestyle of the contemporary Southwest. These were hardy, self-reliant pioneers who settled in what were then remote areas. Their stories tell of love diplomacy with the country and a manner of life that is rapidly disappearing. Through oral histories and a captivating array of historic and contemporary photos, Beloved State records a vibrant and resourceful way of life that has contributed then much to the region. Individuals similar Doña Ramona tell stories about rural life, farming, ranching, and vaquero culture that enrich our knowledge of settlement, culinary practices, religious traditions, arts, and educational activity of Hispanic settlers of Arizona. They talk bluntly about how the land changed hands—not always by legal means—and tell how they feel about modern guild and the disappearance of the rural lifestyle. "Our ranch homes and fields, our chapels and corrals may have been bulldozed past progress or renovated into spas and invitee ranches that never whisper our ancestors' names," writes Patricia Preciado Martin. "The story of our beautiful and resilient heritage will never exist silenced . . . as long equally nosotros always recall to run our fingers through the nourishing and nurturing soil of our history." Dear Country works that soil as it revitalizes that history for the generations to come. Aggrandize Description
	Between Grass And Sky: Where I Live And Work Linda M. Hasselstrom University of Nevada Press, 2005 Library of Congress PS3558.A7257Z4636 2002 \| Dewey Decimal 818.5409 An important collection of personal essays from 1 of the near widely published American environmental writers addresses the effects of ranching on the surround. Acclaimed nature author Linda Yard. Hasselstrom sees herself as a rancher who writes—a definition that shapes the tone and content of her writing. Now owner of the South Dakota cattle ranch where she grew up, Hasselstrom lives in intimate contact with the natural world. "Nature is to me both home and role. Nature is my dominate, managing director of the co-operative office—or ranch part—where I toil to catechumen native grass into meat. . . . If I want to keep my job equally well as my home, I pay attention not only to Nature'southward orders, but to her moods and whims." She writes knowingly of the rancher'southward toil and of the intelligence and dignity of the wild and domesticated creatures that share the prairie grassland she calls dwelling house. As one who knows and loves the land, Hasselstrom appreciates the concerns of environmental activists and understands that responsible ranchers tin can play a role in nurturing a healthy rural ecosystem. Rich in detail, humor, and desolation, these essays offering wry commentary on the scope of human folly and the even greater human potential for community and empathy. "Only people who live in the state," she writes, "could course a relationship with nature so intimate that they experience business concern for one lonely duck. People who live in cities . . . but glimpse nature from high windows or speeding vehicles. Even wilderness lovers who probe securely are only passing through. We who alive on the state truly live within the land, each of our lives only one among the other inhabitants of the place." These are essays to read with wonder and delight, to relish and ponder. Available in hardcover and paperback. Expand Description
	Cattle In The Common cold Desert, Expanded Edition James A. Young Academy of Nevada Press, 2002 Library of Congress SF196.U5Y68 2002 \| Dewey Decimal 636.200979 A sophisticated ecological assay of ranching in northern Nevada featuring a new chapter and new epilogue by the authors.First published in 1985, Cattle in the Cold Desert has become a classic in the environmental history of the Great Basin, brilliantly combining a lively account of the evolution of the Great Bowl grazing manufacture with a detailed scientific discussion of the ecology of its sagebrush/grassland institute communities. The book traces the history of white settlement in the Keen Bowl from about 1860, along with the arrival of herds of cattle and sheep to exploit the forage resources of a pristine surroundings and, through the history of John Sparks, a pioneer cattleman, illustrates how the herdsmen interacted with the sagebrush/grasslands of the cold desert West. As the story unfolds on ii levels—that of the herdsmen adapting their livelihood to the challenging conditions of the Great Bowl's scanty forage, aridity, and trigger-happy winters, and that of the fragile environmental of the desert plant communities responding to the presence of huge herds of livestock—we come across the results of a grand experiment initiated by men willing to venture beyond the limits of accepted ecology potential to settle the Bang-up Basin, also as the often ruinous consequences of the introduction of domestic livestock into the plant communities of the region. The result is a remarkably balanced and insightful give-and-take of the grazing manufacture in the Intermountain Due west. This new paperback edition includes an additional chapter that addresses the bear on of wild mustangs on the Neat Basin rangelands, and an epilogue that discusses changes in rangeland management and in rangeland weather, especially the touch on of recent wildfires. Every bit business organisation over the future of the Neat Basin's unique rangeland environment and its principal agricultural manufacture grows, Cattle in the Cold Desert remains essential reading for everyone who cares near this underappreciated region of the American Due west. Expand Description
	The Chickasaw Rancher, Revised Edition Neil R. Johnson University Press of Colorado, 2001 Library of Congress F697.J6J62 2001 \| Dewey Decimal 976.603092 First published in 1960, Neil R. Johnson'southward The Chickasaw Rancher, Revised Edition, tells the story of Montford T. Johnson and the first white settlement of Oklahoma. Abandoned by his father after his mother'southward death so left on his own post-obit his grandmother'south passing in 1868, Johnson became the owner of a piece of state in the northern office of the Chickasaw Nation in what is now Oklahoma. The Chickasaw Rancher follows Montford T. Johnson's family and friends for the side by side thirty-ii years. Neil R. Johnson describes the work, the ranch parties, cattle rustling, gun fights, tornadoes, the run of 1889, the hard deaths of many along the way, and the rise, autumn, and revival of the Chickasaw Nation. This revised edition of The Chickasaw Rancher, edited by C. Neil Kingsley, Neil R. Johnson's grandson, is the perfect addition to whatsoever reader'south collection of the history of the American W. Expand Description
	Chuck Wagon Cookin' Stella Hughes University of Arizona Press, 1974 Library of Congress TX823.H8 \| Dewey Decimal 641.578 Chili, stew, biscuits—information technology's all here in over a hundred old-fourth dimension recipes, abode remedies too! More than a cookbook, information technology's a treasure trove of ranch lore. "This is a splendid collection of cowcamp cook tales and 112 accurate old-time dutch oven recipes." —Books of the Southwest "It is a delightful combination of yarns, history, nostalgia, and solid information—all ingeniously brewed upward and spiced past a lady who knows what she is about." —Periodical of Arizona History "Nosotros haven't had a volume that was so much fun to read in a long time." —Journal of the W "If yous want a proficient modify in your eating, this is the volume for yous." —True West Expand Description
	Cowboy is a Verb: Notes from a Modern-day Rancher Richard Collins University of Nevada Press, 2019 Library of Congress F811.C667 2019 \| Dewey Decimal 979.1 From the big moving-picture show to the smallest particular, Richard Collins fashions a rousing memoir about the mod-day lives of cowboys and ranchers. However, Cowboy is a Verb is much more than wild horse rides and cattle chases. While Collins recounts stories of quirky ranch horses, cranky moo-cow critters, cow dogs, and the people who use and care for them, he likewise paints a rural Westward struggling to survive the onslaught of relentless suburbanization. A born storyteller with a flair for words, Collins breathes life into the geology, history, and interdependency of land, water, and native and introduced plants and animals. He conjures indelible portraits of the hardworking, dedicated people he comes to know. With both humor and humility, he recounts the twenty-four hour period-to-24-hour interval challenges of ranch life such every bit how to build a productive herd, distribute your cattle evenly across a rough and rocky landscape, and establish a grazing system that allows pastures plenty fourth dimension to recover. He likewise intimately recounts a boxing over the endangered Gila topminnow and how he and his neighbors worked with academy range scientists, forest service conservationists, and funding agencies to ameliorate their ranches as well as the ecological health of the Redrock Canyon watershed. Ranchers who want to stay in the game don't dominate the mural; instead, they have to continually study the land and the animals it supports. Collins is a keen observer of both. He demonstrates that patience, resilience, and a mutual-sense approach to conservation and range direction are what counts, combined with an enduring affection for nature, its animals, and the state. Cowboy is a Verb is not a romanticized story of cowboy life on the range, rather it is a complex story of the complicated work involved with beingness a rancher in the twenty-first-century Westward. Expand Description
	Don't Make Me Go to Town: Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country By Rhonda Lashley Lopez University of Texas Printing, 2011 Library of Congress F392.T47L37 2011 \| Dewey Decimal 976.431 Many people dream of "anytime buying a small quaint identify in the land, to ain two cows and sentry the birds," in the words of Texas ranchwoman Amanda Spenrath Geistweidt. But only a few are cutting out for the unrelenting work that makes a family ranching operation successful. Don't Make Me Go to Boondocks presents an eloquent photo-documentary of eight women who have chosen to make ranching in the Texas Hill Country their way of life. Ranging from immature mothers to elderly grandmothers, these women offer vivid accounts of raising livestock in a rugged land, cut off from amenities and amusements that nigh people have for granted, and loving the hard lives they've chosen. Rhonda Lashley Lopez began making photographic portraits of Texas Hill Country ranchwomen in 1993 and has followed their lives through the intervening years. She presents their stories through her images and the women'south own words, listening in as the ranchwomen draw the pleasures and difficulties of raising sheep, Angora goats, and cattle on the Edwards Plateau west of Austin and n of San Antonio. Their stories record the struggles that all ranchers face—vagaries of weather condition and livestock markets, among them—likewise every bit the actress challenges of being women raising families and keeping things going on the home front while also riding the range. All the same, to a woman, they all passionately cover family unit ranching as a fashion of life and draw their efforts to pass it on to future generations. Expand Description
	Dust Devils: (A Novella) Robert Laxalt University of Nevada Press, 1997 Library of Congress PS3562.A9525D8 1997 \| Dewey Decimal 813.54 An activeness-packed story set during the violent and conflict-ridden days of the early 20th century,Dust Devils takes identify in the rugged mountains and deserts of Eastern California and Northern Nevada. Ira Hamilton, the teenage son of rugged Indian-hating rancher John D. Hamilton, wins the bronc-riding competition at a local rodeo and comes away with a special prize: a cute Arabian filly. Just the horse is presently stolen by Eagle, a notorious local rustler. Accompanied by Cricket, a young Paiute who has been his closest companion since infancy, Ira vows to recollect his prize. On the way, Ira must find the courage to overcome the challenges of nature and outlaw, and to love the woman of his choice. This vivid tale will thrill readers with its authentic depiction of Nevada's lonely back state, its hardy ranchers, and its native peoples. Ira Hamilton'south run a risk shows us the final days of the Old West, when cowboys, sheepmen, and Indians yet struggled to survive and overcome their long-continuing animosities, and trigger-happy men rode boldly and unhindered beyond the harsh landscape. Expand Description
	The Family Ranch: Land, Children, and Tradition in the American W Linda Hussa University of Nevada Press, 2010 Library of Congress F596.H88 2009 \| Dewey Decimal 306.850978091734 Every bit a stabilizing force in the American West, ranch families play a critical role in our state. They contribute to our nation with the food they enhance, the resources they manage, and the environments and heritage they preserve. Accolade-winning author Linda Hussa offers readers an intimate view into the lives of six various ranching families. Lensman Madeleine Graham Blake provides engaging and often moving images that portray each family at work and at play. Chapters on the critical issues facing them, such as grazing rights, water use, and education, prepare these profiles in a larger context. This is family ranching as it is now, a tracing of how information technology always was, simply made far more complex in modernistic times. The family ranch in the twenty-first century faces many challenges, from competition with government-subsidized agribusiness corporations to taxation laws that encourage development over agronomics and foreclose the smooth transfer of state from one generation to the next. Past combining their traditions with the tools of modernistic technology, these people strengthen the ideal of family and give their business organization a vibrant and viable future. The text and photographs ofThe Family Ranch will inspire fresh thinking about tradition, values, and responsibility. Aggrandize Description
	The Flock Mary Austin University of Nevada Press, 2001 Library of Congress SF375.4.C2A88 2001 \| Dewey Decimal 636.3083097948 This classic novel, first published in 1906 and based on Mary Austin'south own experiences, captures the mode of life of shepherds in the Sierra. Austin blends natural history, politics, and allegory in a genre-blurring narrative, championing local shepherds in their losing boxing against the chop-chop developing tourist concern in the Western Sierra during the nineteenth century. Austin had met many shepherds while visiting the Tejon ranches of Edward Beale and Henry Miller, and cultivated relationships with men others frequently thought of as ignorant, unambitious, and dirty, listening closely to their stories. Her neighbors were scandalized, but Austin respected the shepherds' means of thinking. Rather than portray these shepherds' lives as office of a romantic foretime era, in this novel, she instead positions them equally exemplifying potentially radical ways of living in and thinking near the globe. Afterword by Barney Nelson. Expand Description
	Harder than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life from the Border of the Texas Hill State Edited by Thad Sitton University of Texas Printing, 2004 Library of Congress F394.F6365H37 2003 \| Dewey Decimal 976.4287061 Until the U.S. Army claimed 300-plus square miles of hardscrabble country to build Fort Hood in 1942, small-scale communities like Antelope, Pidcoke, Stampede, and Okay scratched out a living by growing cotton wool and ranching goats on the less fertile edges of the Texas Colina Country. While a few farmers took jobs with construction crews at Fort Hood to remain in the area, almost the unabridged population—and with it, an entire segment of rural civilisation—disappeared into the rest of the state. In Harder than Hardscrabble, oral historian Thad Sitton collects the colorful and frequently touching stories of the pre–Fort Hood residents to give a firsthand view of Texas farming life before World War 2. Accessible to the general reader and historian alike, the stories recount in vivid item the hardships and satisfactions of daily life in the Texas countryside. They draw agricultural practices and livestock handling also as life beyond work: traveling peddlers, visits to towns, country schools, medical practices, and play tricks hunting. The anecdotes capture a fast-disappearing rural society—a world very dissimilar from today's urban Texas. Expand Description
	Hashknife Cowboy: Recollections of Mack Hughes Stella Hughes; Illustrated by Joe Beeler University of Arizona Press, 1984 Library of Congress F811.H86H84 1984 \| Dewey Decimal 979.1050924 "Age and size ain't got nothin' to practice with it," Mack's daddy once said. "You lot gotta desire to be a cowboy." Mack Hughes wanted to be a cowboy, all right, and he was just twelve years old when he went to work for the famous Hashknife spread in northern Arizona. Growing upwards on the range, Mack lived a life about which modern boys can just wonder. He spins yarns of bad horses and the men who rode them, tells of wild dogs that ravaged immature calves, and recalls lonely wintertime weeks spent at a remote camp-where his home was a shack and then flimsy that snowfall blew through the cracks and covered his bed. Stella Hughes, author of the best-selling Chuck Railroad vehicle Cookin' and a cowhand in her own right, has compiled from her hubby'southward reminiscences an accurate expect both at Arizona history and at cowboying as it really was. Illustrated past Joe Beeler, founding fellow member of the Cowboy Artists of America. Expand Description
	The Primary Showmen of King Ranch: The Story of Beto and Librado Maldonado By Betty Bailey Colley and Jane Clements Monday, with Beto Maldonado Academy of Texas Press, 2009 Library of Congress F395.M5C64 2009 \| Dewey Decimal 976.447200923687 Texas's King Ranch has become legendary for a long list of innovations, the nearly enduring of which is the development of the starting time official cattle breed in the Americas, the Santa Gertrudis. Among those who played a crucial role in the breed's success were Librado and Alberto "Beto" Maldonado, primary showmen of the Rex Ranch. A true "bull whisperer," Librado Maldonado adult a method for gentling and preparation cattle that allowed him and his son Beto to show the Santa Gertrudis to their best reward at venues ranging from the famous King Ranch auctions to a Chicago goggle box studio to the Dallas–Fort Worth airport. They even boarded a plane with the cattle en route to the International Fair in Casablanca, Kingdom of morocco, where they introduced the Santa Gertrudis to the African continent. In The Main Showmen of Rex Ranch, Beto Maldonado recalls an eventful life of training and showing King Ranch Santa Gertrudis. He engagingly describes the process of teaching two-1000-pound bulls to carry "like gentlemen" in the show ring, as well as the significant logistical challenges of transporting them to various loftier-profile venues around the world. His reminiscences, which span more than than seventy years of King Ranch history, combine with quotes from other Maldonado family members, co-workers, and ranch owners to shed low-cal on many aspects of ranch life, including 24-hour interval-to-24-hour interval work routines, family unit relations, women's roles, annual celebrations, and the indelible ties between King Ranch owners and the vaquero families who worked on the ranch through several generations. Aggrandize Description
	The Mod Cowboy John R. Erickson University of North Texas Press, 2004 Library of Congress F596.E74 2004 \| Dewey Decimal 978
	No Identify Similar Home: Notes from a Western Life Linda G. Hasselstrom University of Nevada Press, 2010 Library of Congress F656.four.H37A3 2009 \| Dewey Decimal 978 In No Place Similar Abode, Linda Hasselstrom ponders the irresolute nature of community in the modern West, where erstwhile family ranches are beingness turned into subdivisions and celebrated towns are evolving into mean, congested cities. Her scrutiny, like her life, moves back and forth between her ranch on the South Dakota prairie and her house in an old neighborhood at the edge of downtown Cheyenne, Wyoming. The vignettes that form the foundation of her consideration are drawn from the communities she has known during her life in the West, reflecting on how they have grown, thrived, failed, and changed, and highlighting the people and decisions that shaped them. Hasselstrom'due south ruminations are both intensely personal and universal. She laments the disappearance of the old prairie ranches and the rural sense of customs and common responsibility that sustained them, but she also discovers that a spirit of community can be found in unlikely places and among unlikely people. The book defines her idea of how a true community should work, and the kind of place she wants to live in. Her vocalization is unique and honest, both compassionate and cranky, total of love for the harsh, hauntingly cute curt-grass prairie that is her dwelling house, and rich in agreement of the intricacies of the natural earth around her and the space potentials of human delivery, promise, and greed. For anyone curious nearly the state of the contemporary Due west, Hasselstrom offers a report from the forepart, where nature and homo aspirations are often at odds, and where the concepts of community and mutual responsibility are being redefined. Aggrandize Description
	Former Deseret Live Stock Visitor: A Stockman'southward Memoir W. Dean Frischknecht Utah State University Printing, 2008 Library of Congress SF375.32.F75A3 2008 \| Dewey Decimal 636.301097922 In the high land of the northern Wasatch Mountains, lies what is left of i of the West's largest ranches. Deseret Live Stock Visitor was reputed at various times to be the largest private landholder in Utah and the unmarried biggest producer of wool in the globe. The ranch began as a sheep functioning, simply as it found success, it also ran cattle. Incorporated in the 1890s past a number of northern Utah ranchers who pooled their resources, the company was at the height of successful operations in the mid-twentieth century when a immature Dean Frischknecht, bearing a contempo degree in animal science, landed the job of sheep foreman. In his memoir he recounts in detail how Deseret managed huge herds of livestock, vast lands, and rich wildlife and recalls through lively anecdotes how stockmen and their families lived and worked in the Wasatch Mountains and Skull Valley's desert wintering grounds. Aggrandize Description
	Ostrich: (A Comic Novel) Michael A. Thomas Academy of Nevada Printing, 2000 Library of Congress PS3570.H5739O88 2000 \| Dewey Decimal 813.54 Nevada sheep rancher Sabine Eckleberry's life is in shambles. His wife has decamped to Arizona to run a dog-grooming business; his youngest daughter needs a married man; his irrepressible son VJ wants to turn the ranch into an ostrich-breeding operation; and the wild burros he has adopted to baby-sit his sheep tin't get forth with their charges. At present his family and friends are most to descend on the ranch to gloat Sabine's 70-second birthday. The ranch is shortly a chaos of budding and fated romances, mistaken identities, rampaging poodles, runaway sheep, schemes of seduction and sudden wealth, and a newly hatched ostrich chick in search of love. Novelist Michael A. Thomas has created a cast of memorable human being characters, a supporting cast of realistic animal personalities, and a colorful setting in Nevada's rangeland. His keen ear for dialogue and his perfect timing support a plot as complicated and satisfying as a Shakespearean comedy. Expand Clarification
	Ranch Wife Jo Jeffers; Foreword past Katherine Jensen University of Arizona Press, 1993 Library of Congress CT275.J45A3 1993 \| Dewey Decimal 979.105092 When Jo Jeffers was a immature girl suffering from asthma, she promised herself, "When I abound upwards, if I always practise, I shall go to Arizona and be a cowboy." She did both, and Ranch Wife tells the story of her life as wife and partner of a rancher in the high country of northeastern Arizona. Hither she describes the routines of ranch life and vividly recalls the dust storms, plagues, and other hazards that challenged the young city-bred woman. It offers readers non merely an insider's view of a working ranch just also an appreciation of how ranchers' wives assist sustain such a rugged enterprise. Expand Description
	Robbers Roost Recollections Pearl Bakery Utah State University Press, 1991 Library of Congress F826.B169 \| Dewey Decimal 979.2030924
	Sharing Fencelines Linda Hussa University of Utah Press, 2002 Library of Congress F845.D84 2002 \| Dewey Decimal 978.10082091734 In the lightly-populated northwestern corner of Nevada, a former geologist and rural schoolteacher, a published poet and ranch owner, and an artist and environmentalist make for an intriguing—possibly even unlikely—trio of friends. In this evocative collection of personal essays, each offers her voice as a testament to the joys and struggles of creating a abode and connecting to the land and the people who live there. Stories of ranch easily and Ladies' Clubs, raising chickens and raising children, pulling up roots and planting dreams tumble together in a mélange of lives lived well and thoughtfully. Sharing Fencelines is as much almost art equally it is about activism, as much almost personal growth as it is near growing customs. What these women offer us is the sweet taste of what is possible, and the blended harmony of their voices echoes across the mountains and washes and deserts, resonating in our own hearts, our own homes. Carolyn Dufurrena'due south "The Flying Heart Museum" pays homage to a layered landscape of unique individuals—not the least of which are her students, searching for themselves in the Nevada wilderness: "You know how your spirit betrays you when you're not thinking to protect yourself. Jose has been dreaming, doodling away, and his pencil has discovered this flying center, equally big as the Puritan meetinghouse....He has drawn the log cabin effectually the eye, and labeled it. At recess I ask him, gently, 'So, Jose, what's in there, in your Flight Middle Museum?'" In "Shared Fencelines," Linda Hussa reveals the mystery of horses, the gift of water, and the serendipity of love: "My first hurt came from a horse when I tried to shinny up the feathered leg of our sometime gelding as I'd seen my brother and sister practise. Twelve hundred pounds of him stepped on my bare human foot. Mom carried her shrieking two-year-old to the house...she cutting off the dangling blast saying Popeye didn't mean to, he just didn't observe my little human foot. And then she cradled my face in her cool easily and said she hoped I would forgive him and we could be friends once more." "Fire Hall" by Sophie Sheppard paints a picture of a families and communities forged against the backdrop of a rugged, rural life: "Here, when there is a funeral, the whole town comes. First to arrive are the older women, vestiges of the Lake Metropolis Ladies Society that was disbanded a few years ago because almost of the younger women have jobs and no longer stay at domicile. At the potluck funeral dinner anybody volition file in together: the women unfamiliar in dresses ordered from catalogs, the mens' hatless foreheads glowing pale in contrast to the tan of their freshly shaven jaws, the younger people that I won't recognize." Aggrandize Description
	Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon edited by Bill Siems, illustrations by Katherine Field Utah State University Printing, 2004 Library of Congress PS3521.I764A6 2004 \| Dewey Decimal 818.52 Set in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, the stories are a loosely tied string of former timer's yarns with a continuing cast of engaging characters, whom Kiskaddon avoids reducing to cowboy stereotypes. They include, as Siems describes them, "Kiskaddon himself as the grapheme Shorty. As a common waddy with a pocket-sized man'south feistiness and a boyfriend's mischief, Shorty encounters the wicked world with a succession of companions: Neb, high-headed and a fleck of an outlaw; Rildy Briggs, untamable and unstoppable immature cowgirl; and Ike, an old-fashioned dandy and 'a very fortunate person.' More than or less in the background is the Dominate-actually a series of Bosses-generally affectionately respected as long as he remains democratic in his dealings with the waddies. Buffoonery is provided by a succession of pompous characters, from townspeople who wait downwards their noses on wild, unwashed waddies to professors from the East who have read books on how ranches should be run." Expand Description
	Tales of the Wild Equus caballus Desert By Betty Bailey Colley and Jane Clements Mon University of Texas Press, 2001 Library of Congress F395.M5C65 2001 \| Dewey Decimal 976.4 Highly skilled, difficult-working, and loyal to each other and to the ranches that utilize them, the Mexican and Mexican American vaqueros who piece of work on the famous King and Kenedy Ranches of S Texas' Wild Horse Desert are some of America's all-time cowboys. Many of them come from families who have lived and worked on the ranches for over a hundred years. They preserve the memories of ranch life handed down by their grandparents and great-grandparents, even as they use modern technologies to go along the ranches running smoothly in the twenty-get-go century. This volume tells the stories of the vaqueros of the Wild Equus caballus Desert for fourth- through eighth-grade students. It begins with a cursory history of the vaqueros and the King and Kenedy Ranches. Then, using in the words of today's vaqueros and their families, information technology describes many aspects of by and nowadays life on the ranches. Immature readers will acquire what it'southward like to grow up on the ranches and how vaqueros learn their piece of work. They'll also discover how much goes into existence a vaquero, from using all the different ropes and equipment, to working a circular-up, to showing prize-winning cattle and horses. Teachers and parents will appreciate all the supplemental material in the appendix, including a glossary, lists of related books and websites, hands-on learning activities, and even range and army camp house recipes. Expand Description
	A Vaquero of the Brush Country: The Life and Times of John D. Young By John D. Immature and J. Frank Dobie Academy of Texas Press, 1998 Library of Congress F391.Y68D63 1981 \| Dewey Decimal 976.4060924 This truthful story of the Texas castor range and the start cowboys, equally thrilling as any tale of fiction, has become a archetype in Western literature. Information technology is the story of the land where cattle by tens of thousands were killed on the prairie and where the "Skinning War" was fought. It is the story of the Chisholm Trail up to Abilene and the Platte and of establishing a ranch on the free grass of the Texas Panhandle, of roping elk in Colorado, of trailing Billy the Kid in New Mexico, of the grim lands of the Pecos. And it is the story of John Young, old-time vaquero who was trail commuter, hog chaser, sheriff, ranger, hunter of Mexican bandits, equus caballus thief killer, prairie fire fighter, ranch manager, and other things—a man who was also something of a dreamer, a human of imagination. Expand Description
	Voices from the Wild Equus caballus Desert: The Vaquero Families of the King and Kenedy Ranches By Jane Clements Monday and Betty Bailey Colley Academy of Texas Press, 1997 Library of Congress F395.M5M63 1997 \| Dewey Decimal 976.iv Founded earlier the Ceremonious War, the King and Kenedy Ranches have get legendary for their size, their wealth, and their endless herds of cattle. A major gene in the longevity of these ranches has always been the loyal workforce of vaqueros (Mexican and Mexican American cowboys) and their families. Some of the vaquero families have worked on the ranches through five or six generations. In this book, Jane Clements Monday and Betty Bailey Colley bring together the voices of these men and women who brand ranching possible in the Wild Horse Desert. From 1989 to 1995, the authors interviewed more than sixty members of vaquero families, ranging in age from xx to 93. Their words provide a panoramic view of ranch work and life that spans nearly of the twentieth century. The vaqueros and their families depict all aspects of life on the ranches, from working cattle and doing many kinds of ranch maintenance to the abode chores of raising children, cooking, and cleaning. The elders remember a life of countless manual labor that all the same afforded the satisfaction of jobs done with skill and pride. The younger people describe how modernization has affected the ranches and changed the lifeways of the people who piece of work there. Aggrandize Description
	What Has Passed and What Remains: Oral Histories of Northern Arizona's Changing Landscapes Edited by Peter Friederici Academy of Arizona Press, 2010 Library of Congress GE155.A6W47 2010 \| Dewey Decimal 304.209789 Ferrell Secakuku remembers the ancient farming rites of his Hopi people but saw them replaced by a greenbacks economy. Sheep rancher Joe Manterola recalls watching hard scrabble farms on what is now tree-studded grassland on Garland Prairie. Navajo Rose Gishie once saw freshly dug holes fill with clean, drinkable h2o where none rises today. All over northern Arizona, people have seen the landscapes change, and livelihoods with them. In this remarkable book they share their stories. 13 narratives—from ranchers, foresters, scientists, Native American farmers, and others—tell how northern Arizona landscapes and livelihoods reverberate rapid social and environmental change. The twentieth century saw huge changes as Arizona's human being population swelled and holiday-dwelling house developments arose in the backcountry. Riparian areas dried up, cattle ranching declined, and some wildlife species vanished while others thrived. The people whose words are preserved here accept watched information technology all happen. The volume is a product of Northern Arizona University's Ecological Oral Histories project, which has been collecting remembrances of long-time area residents who accept observed changes to the land from the 1930s to the present day. It carves a wide swath, from the Arizona Strip to the Mogollon Rim, from valleys virtually Prescott to the New United mexican states line. Information technology takes readers to the Bar Heart Ranch north of Williams and to the Doy Reidhead Ranch southeast of Holbrook, to the forests of Flagstaff and the mesas of Indian land. Enhanced with more than fifty illustrations, this book brings environmental modify down to globe by allowing us to see it through the eyes of those whose lives it has directly touched. What Has Passed and What Remains is a window on the by that carries important lessons for the future. Expand Description
	Where the Kleptomaniacal River Rises: A High Desert Domicile Ellen Waterston Oregon Land University Press, 2010 Library of Congress F881.35.W38A3 2010 \| Dewey Decimal 979.583