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More Than Running Cattle

More Than Running Cattle

The Mallet Ranch of the South Plains

by M. Scott Sosebee

Photographs by Wyman Meinzer

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9781682831472

Pub Date: May 2023

The history of the Mallet Ranch and the DeVitt family, scions of a West Texas legacy.
Cattle, Cotton, Corn

Cattle, Cotton, Corn

A History of Central Texas Middle-Class Ranches, 1880–1930

by W. C. Arnold

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9781682831281

Pub Date: September 2022

Drawing from oral histories and family records, illustrates the lived experiences of four small Central Texas family ranches.
Tascosa

Tascosa

Its Life and Gaudy Times

by Frederick W. Nolan

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9781682830284

Pub Date: September 2020

As well as being the center of ranching activity in the Panhandle, Tascosa also became the last best hiding place in Texas for killers on the run, horse thieves, tinhorn gamblers, hair-trigger shootists...
Getting By In Hard Times

Getting By In Hard Times

Letters from the Pitchfork Ranch, 1938-1939

Edited by Scott White

Price: $25.00

ISBN: 9781467546881

Pub Date: June 2012

This book provides a rare look at the day-to-day details of running the Pitchfork Ranch during the late 1930s. Letters of brothers Eugene F. Williams and J. Gates Williams and of Virgil V. Parr illuminate...
Cowboy’s Lament

Cowboy’s Lament

A Life on the Open Range

by Frank Maynard

Edited by Jim Hoy

Foreword by David Stanley

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780896727052

Pub Date: September 2010

In 1870, sixteen-year-old Frank Maynard left his home in Iowa and took a job helping to trail a small herd of cattle from Missouri to Colorado. Thus began his adventures as an open-range cowboy, a ten-year career that coincided with the peak of the great trail-drive era. Among the highlights of Maynard’s time on the range were brushes with outlaws and encounters with famous lawmen. But his most enduring contribution sprang from overhearing a version of an old Irish ballad in 1876 and reworking it as “The Cowboy’s Lament,” the standard most recognize today as “The Streets of Laredo.” His role in adapting the song and his other colorful experiences on the trail have come to light with the recent discovery of his unpublished memoir. Now, alongside the frontier recollections of Charlie Siringo and Charles Colchord, Maynard’s personal account offers a rare and revealing glimpse of the true Old West.
Cowboy Park

Cowboy Park

Steer-Roping Contests on the Border

by John O. Baxter

Foreword by Richard Slatta

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780896726420

Pub Date: December 2008

A century ago, when Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona outlawed steer roping contests, there was one place a southwestern roper could go to hone his skills: Cowboy Park, the arena established in 1907 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. During the formative years of rodeo that preceded the first Calgary Stampede in 1912, Cowboy Park promoted the sport of steer roping and provided a ready training ground for up-and-coming champions. From its inception until growing political turmoil in Mexico brought the enterprise to a halt, Cowboy Park kept the sport alive and fostered celebrity—its “alumni” swept the first prizes in Calgary and continued to dominate for some years. This unique institution, despite its significant influence on the future of rodeo, has until now received scant attention. Through the history he has recovered and photographs—many published here for the first time—John Baxter documents and...
The Spurs of James J. Wheat, Pioneer Collector

The Spurs of James J. Wheat, Pioneer Collector

by Bruce Bartlett

Photographs by Brandi Price

With Marsha Pfluger

Price: $35.00

ISBN: 9780976183464

Pub Date: December 2008

With pockets full of cash and the help of trusted scouts, oilman James J. Wheat of Loving County, Texas, amassed one of the most impressive collections of horse spurs in the state. Drawing from the 920 spur pairs and singles and more than 100 bits Wheat donated to the Ranching Heritage Association in 1985, expert appraiser Bruce Bartlett has compiled a volume as rich in history as it is in full-color images. With its lavish, oversized photographs and fine-grained descriptions, The Spurs of James J. Wheat presents a treat for the eye and a close look at a fascinating aspect of Western utilitarian art.
Great Plains Cattle Empire

Great Plains Cattle Empire

Thatcher Brothers and Associates, 1875-1945

by Paul E. Patterson and Joy Poole

Foreword by Elmer Kelton

Price: $17.95

ISBN: 9780896725638

Pub Date: October 2005

“A veritable Who’s Who of pioneer cattlemen.” —Elmer Kelton, from the Foreword John and Mahlon Thatcher were two of the many pioneers looking to begin a new life in the great open spaces of...
Across Time & Territory

Across Time & Territory

A Walk Through the National Ranching Heritage Center

by Marsha Pfluger

Price: $39.00

ISBN: 9780975936009

Pub Date: October 2004

This unique and beautiful volume celebrates the National Ranching Heritage Center, a museum and historical park located on the northern edge of the Texas Tech University campus in Lubbock. Dedicated...
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Portrait of a Texas Ranch

Photographs by Wyman Meinzer

by Henry Chappell

Foreword by Red Steagall

Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9780896725362

Pub Date: October 2004

The Four Sixes is not a relic, showpiece, or preserve. It’s a working cattle ranch, some 290,000 acres of West Texas prairie carefully used. Here, men still earn their livelihoods on horseback, not out of blind adherence to tradition, but out of necessity. Since Samuel “Burk” Burnett began buying rangeland in King County in the 1890s, his cowhands have relied on methods developed by early vaqueros and refined on the great trail drives. In managing cattle, these methods are still the most efficient and humane. Spurs, broad-brimmed hats, and scuffed and patched boots are not fashion statements but essentials—as are loyalty, toughness, and resourcefulness, traits still common to those doing dangerous work in remote country. Perhaps, though, the Four Sixes’ greatest legacy is the land itself. Across four generations, foremen have striven to nurture and restore, to leave a healthy range. That stewardship has produced some of the richest, most...
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