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A vaquero of the brush country / by J. Frank Dobie ; partly from the reminiscences of John Young ; illustrated by Justin C. Gruelle ; preface by Lawrence Clark Powell.
LIBRA F391 .D63 1981
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young, John Duncan, 1856-.
- Young, John Duncan.
- Texas Rangers.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Texas.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Texas.
- Ranch life--Texas.
- Ranch life.
- Cowboys--Texas--Biography.
- Cowboys.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 302 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas, 1981.
- Summary:
- This true story of the Texas brush range and the first cowboys, as thrilling as any tale of fiction, has become a classic in Western literature. It is the story of the land where cattle by tens of thousands were killed on the prairie and where the "Skinning War" was fought. It is the story of the Chisholm Trail up to Abilene and the Platte and of establishing a ranch on the free grass of the Texas Panhandle, of roping elk in Colorado, of trailing Billy the Kid in New Mexico, of the grim lands of the Pecos. And it is the story of John Young, old-time vaquero who was trail driver, hog chaser, sheriff, ranger, hunter of Mexican bandits, horse thief killer, prairie fire fighter, ranch manager, and other things--a man who was also something of a dreamer, a man of imagination.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 283-285.
- ISBN:
- 0292787049
- OCLC:
- 249400746
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