From the Pecos to the Powder: A Cowboy's Autobiography

Adams, Ramon F.

ISBN 10: 0806122129 / ISBN 13: 9780806122120

Editore: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989

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Offers the memoirs of a cowboy and cattleman who left his Texas home at the age of twelve and worked at various ranches before becoming an active participant in Montana's cattle industry

Product Description: One of the last Old-time cowboys here tells his own story: his boyhood in Texas, wandering from ranch to ranch in the Southwest, the trek to Montana with a trail herd, and his life thereafter among the people and ranches of the area. His account is full of anecdotes, humorous or tragic, which themselves illuminate facets of a way of life that is no more.Bob Kennon knew the Ketchums, Kid Curry, and Western artist Charles M. Russell, who was his friend, as well as many prominent ranchmen of his day."Perhaps I am the last living rider of those boys who, in 1896, came up that long trail to Montana from what was then the largest ranch in the world, the Terrazas Ranch in Old Mexico," he begins. And he goes on to tell just what the cowboy business was really like not only on the trail and the range, but in the wild, infrequent visits to town, encounters with camp cooks and titled Englishmen, rodeo performances, and all that belongs to the cowboy's existence. The smell of the bunkhouse and the atmosphere of the range pervade every page.

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Titolo: From the Pecos to the Powder: A Cowboy's ...
Casa editrice: University of Oklahoma Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1989
Legatura: paperback
Illustratore: Beeler, Joe
Condizione: Very Good