Author : Reuben B. Mullins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780931271106
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (711 download)
Book Synopsis Pulling Leather by : Reuben B. Mullins
Download or read book Pulling Leather written by Reuben B. Mullins and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Round-ups, trail drives, a lynching, mail order romances, blacksmithing, bunkhouse humor, Indians, the Blizzard of 1885-86, cattle barons, Calamity Jane, the rise & demise of the open-range cattle era--Rueben Mullins experienced the West as it will never be again. His original first-hand account languished in archival collection until now, 100 years after he rode the open-range, Mullins's story has been published to high praise by historians, literary review publications, & readers: "...(this) memoir represents as real a record of life in the West as exists anywhere..."--RED NECK REVIEW OF LITERATURE. "...full of specific & carefully observed details about round-ups, horse breaking...& all the day-to-day affairs that are so conspicuously absent from THE VIRGINIAN or even from THE LOG OF A COWBOY..."--TEXAS BOOKS IN REVIEW. "...'perzactly' the sort of book True West readers love most!"--TRUE WEST. "Reuben B. Mullins could ride & write!"--BLOOMSBURY REVIEW. "This well-rounded narrative is reminiscent of such range classics as Teddy 'Blue' Abbot's WE POINTED THEM NORTH & Andy Adams' THE LOG OF A COWBOY"--B. Byron Price, Executive Director, National Cowboy Hall of Fame. Finalist: 1989 Ben Franklin Awards. Wyoming Historical Association Award.