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Author : James Robinson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 145002002X
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Texas Cowboy written by James Robinson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Author : Charles A. Siringo
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781387905850
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)
Download or read book A Texas Cowboy: Or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony written by Charles A. Siringo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles A. Siringo's dramatic and action-packed memoirs about life in the old American West are published here in full. As well as for his time as a lawman, Siringo was famous for epitomizing the spirit of adventure and free roaming that characterized North America during the 19th century. Born and raised on the Western frontier, it was through his years in the West that Siringo learned the rural life of a cowboy. By the time he published this autobiography in 1885 at the age of thirty, Siringo was an ambitious and confident fellow - ""money, and lots of it,"" he declares, is the prime reason he wrote his memoirs. The book begins with Charles Siringo's account of his early life, as the son of immigrants; his father an Italian and his mother Irish. We follow his early life in and around Dodge City, learning the ways of the cattle hand and witnessing a few remarkable sights along the way. Eventually, Siringo sets up shop as a merchant, where he found the time to author this memoir.
Author : Charles A. Siringo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (554 download)
Download or read book A Texas Cow-boy written by Charles A. Siringo and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles A. Siringo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781387905843
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)
Download or read book A Texas Cowboy written by Charles A. Siringo and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles A. Siringo's dramatic and action-packed memoirs about life in the old American West are published here in full. As well as for his time as a lawman, Siringo was famous for epitomizing the spirit of adventure and free roaming that characterized North America during the 19th century. Born and raised on the Western frontier, it was through his years in the West that Siringo learned the rural life of a cowboy. By the time he published this autobiography in 1885 at the age of thirty, Siringo was an ambitious and confident fellow - ""money, and lots of it"", he declares, is the prime reason he wrote his memoirs. The book begins with Charles Siringo's account of his early life, as the son of immigrants; his father an Italian and his mother Irish. We follow his early life in and around Dodge City, learning the ways of the cattle hand and witnessing a few remarkable sights along the way. Eventually, Siringo sets up shop as a merchant, where he found the time to author this memoir.
Author : Charles Siringo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781540575937
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (759 download)
Download or read book A Texas Cowboy, Or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony written by Charles Siringo and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles A. Siringo's dramatic and action-packed memoirs about life in the old American West are published here in full. As well as for his time as a lawman, Siringo was famous for epitomizing the spirit of adventure and free roaming that characterized North America during the 19th century. Born and raised on the Western frontier, it was through his years in the West that Siringo learned the rural life of a cowboy. By the time he published this autobiography in 1885 at the age of thirty, Siringo was an ambitious and confident fellow - "money, and lots of it", he declares, is the prime reason he wrote his memoirs. The book begins with Charles Siringo's account of his early life, as the son of immigrants; his father an Italian and his mother Irish. We follow his early life in and around Dodge City, learning the ways of the cattle hand and witnessing a few remarkable sights along the way. Eventually, Siringo sets up shop as a merchant, where he found the time to author this memoir. Perhaps the most vivid highlight among these recollections regards Billy the Kid, one of the most notorious outlaws to ever emerge in the West. Something of a nemesis for the law-abiding Siringo, the pursuit of Billy occupies several chapters of this book. In 1886, the year after this autobiography appeared, Siringo would enroll in the Pinkertons: bored with cowboy life, it was as a detective working undercover that his abilities were truly realized.
Author : Bob Lilly
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1617499048
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (174 download)
Download or read book A Cowboy's Life written by Bob Lilly and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humble man from Throckmorton, Texas, often called "the greatest defensive tackle in NFL history," shares his life's journey for the first time in "A Cowboy's Life." Bob Lilly recounts his beginnings in Texas, being the first player ever drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in 1961, his induction into the Ring of Honor and the Pro Football Hall of Fame, as well as his passion for photography.
Author : Harry H. Halsell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cowboys and Cattleland written by Harry H. Halsell and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must read for anyone with even remote interest in cowboy working history. The detail involving driving a working cattle is unsurpassed, as well as childhood adventures involving Indian interactions. Hard to put down. The wild west, not all pretty, but very real and told by a first hand witness. He lived during the era that spanned the Civil War to the atomic bomb, and describes it starkly.
Author : Ted Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965798549
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Shades of the West written by Ted Gray and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of over a hundred of what Gray calls "stories," we have his memoir of more than 50 years in the saddle combined with fascinating glimpses into the lives, deeds, and misdeeds of a remarkable array of "characters." Set in the Big Bend country of West Texas, Gray´s stories cover the gamut of the cowboy´s life, from roping to roundups, from bulls to broken bones, from butchering camp meat to roping elk, and from raw, pitching broncs to fine, well-trained cutting horses. The "characters" that inhabit these pages are at times so wild and engage in such outlandish behavior that the reader must occasionally remind himself that these are real people and real events and not the fictional creations of a Hollywood screenplay. Many of the stories told here are very funny, some are tragic, but all of them teach us something about people. We certainly learn a lot about Ted Gray in their telling: the extraordinary strength of his belief in hard work, loyalty, friendship, honesty, and being a good neighbor. He has enjoyed the wonderful bonds of lifelong friendship with men like Dick Riddle, Nicasio Ramirez, Lupe Ramirez and Jerome Dees. His loyalty to the Kokernots for whom he worked many years and the importance he places upon being a good neighbor are evident in many of the stories. Over and over Gray reveals his admiration for those who know their profession well and can demonstrate great skill at it. His greatest compliment to any man is, "He can do it all, and get it done right." "Shades of the West" is a memoir with a special foreword by Elmer Kelton. Ted Gray grew up around Jacksboro, Texas, but as a teenager in the 1930s moved to the Big Bend country of West Texas to seek his fortune as a cowboy. After 50 years in the saddle, he is now retired and lives in Alpine, Texas, with his wife, Addie. Ted now enjoys occasionally appearing as a speaker at cowboy gatherings where he can exercise his considerable talents as a story-teller
Author : John James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781456527907
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Memoir of John Y. James written by John James and published by . This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Y. James began his cowboying career herding saddle horses in 1871 at the age of 9. During the next few summers working for the House and Harrison ranches in North Texas, Johnny took on more tasks. By his mid-teens, SSlim had become a full-fledged Texas cowboy. His adventures and exploits with the ranchers " daughters, stampedes, Indians, thieves, and swollen rivers are told with candor and humor.
Author : George Philip
Publisher : South Dakota State Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0985290579
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (852 download)
Download or read book Cowboy Life written by George Philip and published by South Dakota State Historical Society. This book was released on 2007 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rattlesnakes and ornery horses, the dreaded Texas Itch, midnight rambles in graveyards, trips to Mexico, and hard riding on the last open range: George Philip recounts all these adventures and more with wit and humour. George Phillip arrived in South Dakota from Scotland in 1899. For the next four years, he rode as a cowboy for his uncle's L-7 cattle outfit during the heyday of the last open range. But the cowboy era was a brief one, and in 1903 Philip turned in his string of horses and hung up his saddle to enter law school in Michigan. In these candid letters, Philip provides fascinating insights into the development of the West and of South Dakota. His writing details the cowboy's day-to-day work, from branding and roping to navigating across the palins by stars and buttes, as the great open ranges slowly closed up.
Author : Frank Clifford
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185406
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Deep Trails in the Old West written by Frank Clifford and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowboy and drifter Frank Clifford lived a lot of lives—and raised a lot of hell—in the first quarter of his life. The number of times he changed his name—Clifford being just one of them—suggests that he often traveled just steps ahead of the law. During the 1870s and 1880s his restless spirit led him all over the Southwest, crossing the paths of many of the era’s most notorious characters, most notably Clay Allison and Billy the Kid. More than just an entertaining and informative narrative of his Wild West adventures, Clifford’s memoir also paints a picture of how ranchers and ordinary folk lived, worked, and stayed alive during those tumultuous years. Written in 1940 and edited and annotated by Frederick Nolan, Deep Trails in the Old West is likely one of the last eyewitness histories of the old West ever to be discovered. As Frank Clifford, the author rode with outlaw Clay Allison’s Colfax County vigilantes, traveled with Charlie Siringo, cowboyed on the Bell Ranch, contended with Apaches, and mined for gold in Hillsboro. In 1880 he was one of the Panhandle cowboys sent into New Mexico to recover cattle stolen by Billy the Kid and his compañeros—and in the process he got to know the Kid dangerously well. In unveiling this work, Nolan faithfully preserves Clifford’s own words, providing helpful annotation without censoring either the author’s strong opinions or his racial biases. For all its roughness, Deep Trails in the Old West is a rich resource of frontier lore, customs, and manners, told by a man who saw the Old West at its wildest—and lived to tell the tale.
Author : E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806186801
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book We Pointed Them North written by E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is "all Teddy Blue. My part was to keep out of the way and not mess it up by being literary.... Because the cowboy flourished in the middle of the Victorian age, which is certainly a funny paradox, no realistic picture of him was ever drawn in his own day. Here is a self-portrait by a cowboy which is full and honest." And Teddy Blue himself says, "Other old-timers have told all about stampedes and swimming rivers and what a terrible time we had, but they never put in any of the fun, and fun was at least half of it." So here it is—the cowboy classic, with the "terrible" times and the "fun" which have entertained readers everywhere. First published in 1939, We Pointed Them North has been brought back into print by the University of Oklahoma Press in completely new format, with drawings by Nick Eggenhofer, and with the full, original text.
Author : Charles A. Siringo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781420949247
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (492 download)
Download or read book A Texas Cowboy written by Charles A. Siringo and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Texas Cowboy" was one of the first true looks into life as a cowboy. Its author, Charles A. Siringo, was born in Dodge City, Kansas and at the age of 15 started working on local ranches as a cowboy and participated over the course of his ranching career in many cattle drives. A highly influential work that romanticized the life of a cowboy and the Old West, Siringo's book tells an autobiographical account of riding the famous Chisholm Trail and driving 2500 head of cattle from Texas to Kansas, of leading a posse of cowboys in pursuit of Billy the Kid and his gang, and of life in general as a cowboy in the great plains during the 19th century. As the first chapter in the life of Siringo, who would later seek further career adventure as a Pinkerton detective, we find in "A Texas Cowboy" a hugely influential autobiography that gives the reader great insight into this period of time and this type of lifestyle from one of the most interesting characters to have lived it.
Author : Andy Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Log of a Cowboy written by Andy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Joaquin Jackson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292738994
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book One Ranger written by H. Joaquin Jackson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retired Texas Ranger recalls a career that took him from shootouts in South Texas to film sets in Hollywood. When his picture appeared on the cover of Texas Monthly, Joaquin Jackson became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers. Nick Nolte modeled his character in the movie Extreme Prejudice on him. Jackson even had a speaking part of his own in The Good Old Boys with Tommy Lee Jones. But the role that Jackson has always played the best is that of the man who wears the silver badge cut from a Mexican cinco peso coin, a working Texas Ranger. Legend says that one Ranger is all it takes to put down lawlessness and restore the peace: one riot, one Ranger. In this adventure-filled memoir, Joaquin Jackson recalls what it was like to be the Ranger who responded when riots threatened, violence erupted, and criminals needed to be brought to justice across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border from 1966 to 1993. Jackson has dramatic stories to tell. Defying all stereotypes, he was the one Ranger who ensured a fair election—and an overwhelming win for La Raza Unida party candidates—in Zavala County in 1972. He followed legendary Ranger Captain Alfred Y. Allee Sr. into a shootout at the Carrizo Springs jail that ended a prison revolt and left him with nightmares. He captured “The See More Kid,” an elusive horse thief and burglar who left clean dishes and swept floors in the houses he robbed. He investigated the 1988 shootings in Big Bend’s Colorado Canyon and tried to understand the motives of the Mexican teenagers who terrorized three river rafters and killed one. He even helped train Afghan mujahedin warriors to fight the Soviet Union. Jackson’s tenure in the Texas Rangers began when older Rangers still believed that law need not get in the way of maintaining order, and concluded as younger Rangers were turning to computer technology to help solve crimes. Though he insists, “I am only one Ranger. There was only one story that belonged to me,” his story is part of the larger story of the Texas Rangers becoming a modern law enforcement agency that serves all the people of the state. It’s a story that’s as interesting as any of the legends. And yet, Jackson’s story confirms the legends, too. With just over a hundred Texas Rangers to cover a state with 267,399 square miles, any one may become the one Ranger who, like Joaquin Jackson in Zavala County in 1972, stops one riot. “A powerful, moving read . . . One Ranger is as fascinating as the memoirs of nineteenth-century Rangers James Gillett and George Durham, and the histories by Frederick Wilkins and Walter Prescott Webb—and equally as important.” —True West “A straight-shooting book that blow[s] a few holes in the Ranger myth while providing more ammunition for the myth’s continuation. . . . Reads more like a novel than [an] autobiography.” —Austin American-Statesman
Author : Jim Lanning
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890966587
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Texas Cowboys written by Jim Lanning and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-three Depression-era interviews in which Texas cowhands describe their everyday responsibilities and experiences.
Author : Barney Nelson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806169885
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Making Circles written by Barney Nelson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Making Circles, Barney Nelson unveils working-class cowboy culture through the eyes of one who has lived the life she chronicles. From living on ranch camps to surviving both cowboy school and graduate school, Nelson’s story is a journey through time and place, pointing out that cowboys inhabit every continent and century, from Lakota Indians and Hawaiian paniolos to Argentine gauchos and Australian ringers, from Pegasus to Cervantes and Tolstoy. Even Thoreau called himself a cowboy. Nelson's story is both personal and expansive, guiding the reader in circles around the modern West, from Montana to Mexico. Along the way, she celebrates the many characters she has encountered and considers role models. Unafraid to challenge the status quo, Nelson fearlessly defends embattled ranchers as well as the humanities, while speaking truth to the powerful forces of environmentalism, tourism, and urban voters. Both a primer for aspiring journalists and an insider’s reflection on horse and ranching cultures, this tour de force memoir honors the practice of writing and its manifold benefits: embracing solitude, avoiding boredom, and accepting aging and death as part of human and animal life. Full of valuable tips, lessons learned and taught, and far-ranging musings on philosophy and poetry, Making Circles demonstrates brilliantly the value and meaning of the term “cowboy journalist.”
