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This is the story of three young friends who get side tracked on a horseback trip to meet up with one friend's father in El Paso, Texas. They are traveling along the Rio Grande when they save a young boy from being abducted and find out that the boy is the son of a Mexican General. They then meet a troop of Texas Rangers and get involved in finding gun runners that are smuggling guns to revolutionists in Mexico. They meet Pancho Villa and associate with him in their quest to shut down the leader of the ones trying to start a revolution to overthrow the President of Mexico. Lots of twists and turns in this story.
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In this story the three young Cowboy chums, Adrian, Donald, and Billie decide to go on a horseback trip to Arizona. The purpose of this trip is to see the Zuni Indians, the unique cliff dwellings where they live, and attend the once a year Snake Dance that they celebrate. They run into some problems along the way and get on the wrong side of three bad characters who are planning to take advantage of the Zunis'. They finally discover who a mystery person is that had given them some much needed help, more than once, but had remained unknown to them. And then there is the mystery of the Zuni Medicine Man that they are itching to solve. He keeps seeming to disappear into a solid mountain to speak to the "Great Manito". The boys really want to discover how and then they devise a plan, to carry out one night, as they think they have the answer.
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This is a book that came out in the early 1900's about a trio of young cowboys and their experiances. In this book the trio ( Adrian, Donald, and Billie ) are headed to the cattle ranch, that Adrian's father left to him, from Arizona. The ranch has been managed since his father's death by his uncle and there appeares now to be some sort of trouble at the ranch, as the proceeds have fallen off. The three friends soon find out what has been going on and make plans to correct the situation. This book was recommended for the12 to 16 year old young adults.
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"Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago," was the favorite toast of John A. Lomax, co-founder of the Texas Folklore Society, which lends its name to this volume which opens with J. Frank Dobie's sketch of Lomax. It is followed by Lomax's own "Cowboy Lingo," found among Dobie's papers, and by two other articles on the cowboy by men whose names sound out in the history of southwestern writing. The theme of the cowboy and the West is further pursued in "The Cowboy Code" by Paul Patterson, "The Cowboy Enters the Movies" by Mody Boatright, "Billy the Kid, Hired Gun or Hero" by John O. West, and "Laureates of the Western Range" by Everett A. Gillis. Next comes William D. Wittliff's collection of passages on folklore from Dobie's writings. The second half of the volume includes the history of two folktales, a strange religious sect, tales of East Texas fox hunts, an old-time charcoal burner, poke sallet, and folksongs, among others. Includes a special portfolio of J. Frank Dobie photographs.
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Ranch life --- Cowboys --- Texas
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Billie Timmons was fourteen when he met Charles Goodnight—over a wagonload of manure that had been jammed on a gatepost—and he went to work on the Goodnight Cross J Ranch shortly thereafter. The spirit of helpfulness that led Mr. Goodnight to strip off his coat and lift the wagon free for a lad in need sets the tone of this book, in which the author unwinds a spool of recollections of range-riding in Texas and North Dakota over an eighteen-year period. When Billie Timmons went to work for Mr. Goodnight in 1892, Texas was undergoing a rapid transition from open range to fences. But around Texas campfires he heard tales about the northern range, told by cowboys who had ridden there and who had seen the northern lights, the tall free grass, swollen streams, and stampeding cattle. A longing to see that exciting country took hold of young Timmons. His chance came when four buffaloes from the Goodnight ranch needed a nursemaid for their freight car trip to Yellowstone Park. Once in the northern country, Timmons stayed, casting his lot with the cowmen of North Dakota. He became the protégé of an extraordinary man, William Ray; he was foreman, friend, and confidant of banker-rancher Wilse Richards, a member of the Cowboy Hall of Fame. But even during his days in North Dakota he never lost touch with Charles Goodnight, a lifelong friend, and his portrayal of Goodnight provides much insight into the character of the man whose name belongs to the West. In this book you experience the terror of being lost in the dead-white expanse of a North Dakota snowstorm; the gaiety of cowboy dances, for which there were never enough women available; the excitement of a near-riot in a Hebron, North Dakota, saloon, where cowboys from the 75 Ranch drank up or poured out all the liquor, then smashed all the glasses and bottles—one day before the state became bone-dry; and the loneliness of work on the range, where a flickering lantern on the side of a chuck wagon on a stormy night meant home for many a cowboy. Running like a bright thread through the narrative is Billie Timmons’s love of horses, from whom he learned the wisdom that some horses and some men are to be handled with great care and others are not to be handled at all. His chapter on Buck, his best-loved horse, is memorable. In North Dakota, as in Texas, fences brought the end of the big herds and the end of cowboying for a man who enjoyed it to the hilt.
Cowboys. --- Ranch life.
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First published in 1953, this photographic record of the real life and work of cowboys remains a perennial favorite. Erwin E. Smith was the outstanding cowboy photographer of the West, and these eighty photographs were among those he chose for an exhibit of his best work at the 1936 Texas Centennial. The text by J. Evetts Haley, a noted historian of the range, skillfully complements Smith's visual record of a vanishing way of life.
Rangelands. --- Ranch life. --- Cattle --- Cowboys.
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