Download or read book Tales from the Brush Country written by Bunyan Blackwell and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Vaquero of the Brush Country written by J. Frank Dobie and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Young was an old-time vaquero who acted as trail driver, hog chaser, sheriff, ranger, horse thief killer, fire fighter, ranch manager, and more.
Download or read book A Vaquero of the Brush Country written by James Frank Dobie and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True story of the Texas brush range and the cowboys who roamed the famous Chisholm Trail, the Texas panhandle. and other famous historical cattle trails.
Download or read book Brush Country written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Elmer Kelton, the brush country of southwest Texas is home. Nobody knows Texas's history, people, beauty, and dangers as well as this greatest of Western writers. Barbed Wire, the first novel in this omnibus, is the story of one-time cowboy Doug Monahan, who runs a fencing crew outside the town of Twin Wells. Monahan, a likeable, hard-working Irishman, and his workers dig post-holes and string red painted barb wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers, and land hungry cattle barons. Their fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school open range cowman of the huge R Cross spread. With his brutal foreman, Archer Spann—who does the violent work of chasing squatters off the range—Rinehart wages a barb wire war against Doug Monahan. A second colorful tale of the brush country is Llano River. Dundee, a onetime cowboy, one of Monahan's fencing crew in Barbed Wire, wanders into the town of Titusville, broke, tired, and itching for a fight. Town patriarch John Titus hires Dundee to find out who is rustling his cattle, but he already has a culprit in mind—Blue Roan Hardesty. Once a friend, now a sworn enemy of the powerful Titus clan, Hardesty is Titus's choice for villain—but Dundee is determined to find out the truth, even if it costs him his job. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Best of Brush Country Bull 1977 1980 written by Henry B. Briscoe and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Depression-bred, Texas-style Mark Twain recaptures the life of the Brush Country and the heart of America. The best articles from the "Brush Country Bull" weekly newspaper column (1977-2005) in The Devine News by Henry B. Briscoe. Henry Briscoe had quite a life. It began simply on a Depression-era dairy farm near Devine, Texas, continued at Texas Tech University, and then took a 180-degree turn to the military. In the Air Force, Henry flew transport planes around the world, commanded a squadron in Vietnam, and assisted the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. But that Devine boyhood had a strong hold on him spiny cactus, rattlesnakes, horny toads and all so he settled there when his 25-year Air Force career was over. Soon after his return, Henry organized a deer-hunting contest and wrote an article about it in The Devine News. The town folk loved it, so he wrote another. And another. Thus began "Brush Country Bull," a folksy column that would run weekly for 27 years and recall, denounce, poke fun, and celebrate quite literally, EVERYTHING. With a range as big as Texas, Henry "jawed" about midnight buck hunting, dropping bulldozers on an ice island at the North Pole, making deer sausage, supporting the Devine Fire Department, critiquing elected officials, and learning the names of migrating birds. And that's just a sampling. So git you a good cup of coffee, head on out to that porch swing, and spend a little time with Henry.
Download or read book A Vaquero of the Brush Country written by J. Frank Dobie and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Download or read book Deep in the Brush Country written by Lucille Thomas Kruse and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey deep into South Texas, where Lucille Thomas Kruse grows up as a young girl in Falfurrias during the 1920s and 1930s. The Thomas familys fate is determined when Grandfather Thomas moves all his belongings and farm animals, including his beehives, to Falfurrias in an immigrant railroad car. In letters from 1907, he praises the lush and fertile land with fl owing artesian water. It also turns out to be a great place to grow up, and Kruse recalls life as it used to beexploring the farm she grew up on where she rode horses and found adventure around every corner. When she became a teenager, excitement consisted of climbing onto the roof of the courthouse or trying to outrun a jackrabbit in a car. Kruse also recalls her sophisticated city relatives who streamed in to visit and experience the family farm. Eccentric ranchers, older folks who remember battling Indians and hunters who rely on their hound dogs to go on wolf hunts all fi gure into this historical account. See how life used to be and discover a forgotten piece of America as you venture Deep in the Brush Country.
Download or read book Wild Cow Tales written by Ben K. Green and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In thirteen stories full of rope burns and brush scratches, the author of the classic Horse Tradin? tells of the days when he made a specialty of catching wild cows. ø Ben K. Green calls himself a ?stove-up old cowboy,? and readers of this book will learn soon enough where the broken bones came from. Green tells of his adventures with wild steers, sharing with readers the years he worked in thorny brush and canyon country delivering those animals that were too wily or too wild for the normal roundup. Finding them was hard, even dangerous, work. Few cowboys looked for such chores. Green declares, ?I got real good at it, but of course in those days I didn?t know any better.?
Download or read book Seldom Heard written by Dian L. Malouf and published by Beyond Words. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seldom Heard is a collection of stories from modern cattlemen (all characters) who have shared vignettes about their ancestors, ranches and their lives on the range. Includes 26 easy to read essays of Southern Texas ranches, many of which date back 100 years in the same family. Includes two of the biggest ranches in Texas –East Family Ranches, and Killam Family Ranches. To go ranch hopping through the great ranches of South Texas is an experience worth having. Dian Malouf knows the old-timers who inhabit them. Her book—Seldom Heard—is an easy read through 26 essays of ranches, many of which date back 100 years in the same family. Some of these vast spreads top 360,000 acres. Don’t miss this book of authentic people who restore your faith in a world overrun by television facelifts and trivial pursuit of rock stars. These rancher’s idiosyncrasies are abundant and amusing, and Dian reveals them with surprise and humor. This is a Texas that may be devoured by urban society in the next 25 years, so meet them while you can. The likes of this authentic and stubborn society of individuals is worth knowing before they leave us.
Download or read book Cowboy Wrecks and Rattlesnakes written by Jack Kingsbery and published by . This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book any rancher or would be rancher would enjoy. There is an underlying humor common to most cowboys, and they can see that a good relationship exists between horse and cowboy.
Download or read book Tye May and the Magic Brush written by and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1992-05-22 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a dream a poor orphan is given a brush that brings to life everything she paints.
Download or read book Brush Country written by Lionel G. Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born during the Great Depression, LIONEL GARCIA spent his early years with his grandfather on a ranch deep in the scrub country of South Texas. It is about his life in that hard-scrabble brush country that Garcia so beautifully writes. In addition to his fictionalized autobiography, I Can Hear the Cowbells Ring, Garcia has published four novels and three collections of stories. Brush Country is the first collection of poetry by this award- winning author.
Download or read book I ll Tell You a Tale written by J. Frank Dobie and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects stories that originate from the folklore of the Southwest.
Download or read book Tales of Old Time Texas written by J. Frank Dobie and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is for good reason that J. Frank Dobie is known as the Southwest's master storyteller. With his eye for color and detail, his ear for the rhythm of language and song, and his heart open to the simple truth of folk wisdom and ways, he movingly and unpretentiously spins the tales of our collective heritages. This he does in Tales of Old-Time Texas, a heartwarming array of twenty-eight stories filled with vivid characters, exciting historical episodes, and traditional themes. As Dobie himself says: "Any tale belongs to whoever can best tell it." Here, then, is a collection of the best Texas tales—by the Texan who can best tell them. Dobie's recollections include such classics in Lone Star State lore as the tale of Jim Bowie's knife, the legend of the Texas bluebonnet, the story of the Wild Woman of the Navidad, and the account of the headless horseman of the mustangs. Other stories in this outstanding collection regale us with odd and interesting characters and events: the stranger of Sabine Pass, the Apache secret of the Guadalupes, the planter who gambled away his bride, and the Robinhooding of Sam Bass. These stories, and many more, make Tales of Old-Time Texas a beloved classic certain to endure for generations.
Download or read book Tales of Old Time Texas written by James Frank Dobie and published by Booksales. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of 28 tales about or taking place in Texas.
Download or read book Tales from the Expat Harem written by Anastasia M. Ashman and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2006-02-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of personal writings in which twenty-nine women who have lived in Turkey over the last forty years chronicle their experiences and share their impressions of the country.
Download or read book The Geography of Bliss written by Eric Weiner and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2008-01-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.
