6,000 miles of fence : life on the XIT Ranch of Texas / Cordia Sloan Duke, Joe B. Frantz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duke, Cordia Sloan, 1877- author.

Frantz, Joe Bertram, 1917-1993, author.

Series:

M.K. Brown range life series ; 1.

M.K. Brown range life series ; number 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ranch life--Texas.

Ranch life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 231 pages) : illustrations, portraits, maps

Other Title:

Six thousand miles of fence

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [1961]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The fabulous XIT Ranch has been celebrated in song, story, and serious history. This book of reminiscences of old XIT cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch run. Their forthright, yet picturesque, discussion of ranching hardships and dangers dissipates Hollywood and TV glamorizing. They relate in honest cowboy language what actually happened inside the XIT's 6,000 miles of fence. Cordia Sloan Duke, wife of an XIT division manager, Robert L. Duke, many years ago realized that only those who had experienced ranch life could depict it with deep understanding. As the young wife of a rising young ranch hand, she kept in her apron pocket a notebook and pencil, recording all manner of interesting details as they caught her attention. This diary was the nucleus for the present book. Conceiving of an account of life on the XIT as presented by XIT cowboys, Mrs. Duke set about drawing from reticent, sometimes reluctant, ranch hands the impressions of the XIT (occasionally written down by their more literate wives or daughters) which they had retained through the years. Cordia Sloan Duke and Joe B. Frantz have organized the reminiscences around key aspects of ranch life, retaining the language of the cow hands.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Cordia Sloan Duke""; ""Those Who Remembered-and Recorded""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""List of Maps""; ""1. THE RANCH""; ""2. WORK""; ""3. AND MORE WORK""; ""4. FIRE FIGHTING""; ""5. HERDING""; ""6. ROUNDUP""; ""7. STAMPEDES""; ""8. RUSTLING""; ""9. HORSES""; ""10. MONTANA""; ""11. WEATHER""; ""12. SOUR DOUGH AND SUPPLIES""; ""13. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DRAW""; ""14. FROLICKING""; ""15. AFTERWARDS""; ""Appendix: Horses Remembered by XIT Men""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-74784-5

OCLC:

932326848