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Eight miles from the front gate : my life on the Y.O. Ranch with Charles Schreiner III / Norma Schreiner.
Van Pelt Library SF194.2.S3 S37 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schreiner, Norma, 1944- Author.
- Series:
- Nancy and Ted Paup '74 ranching heritage series http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/9ef75d05-083f-67e2-2aa1-197f2f46657d
- Nancy and Ted Paup ranching heritage series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schreiner, Charles, III, 1927-2001.
- Schreiner, Charles.
- Schreiner, Norma, 1944---Homes and haunts--Texas--Y.O. Ranch.
- Schreiner, Norma.
- Ranchers--Texas--Texas Hill Country--Biography.
- Ranchers.
- Ranchers' spouses--Texas--Texas Hill Country--Biography.
- Ranchers' spouses.
- Ranch life--Texas--Y.O. Ranch.
- Ranch life.
- Big game ranching--Texas--Y.O. Ranch.
- Big game ranching.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- ""It was the summer of 1977, and I was at the Texas Capitol researching voting patterns for the political campaign I was working for," writes author Norma Schreiner as she describes her meeting with rancher Charles Schreiner III. "I decided to drop by the office of one of my favorite house members, Jim Nugent. . . . Before his staff could announce me, he was bellowing, 'Norma, come in here. There's someone I want you to meet.'" So began the tempestuous, yet mostly good-natured relationship between the author and the man she often called "Charlie Three," scion of the historic Schreiner ranching family of the Texas Hill Country. Their subsequent marriage would last only two years, but that time would place her on the legendary Y.O. Ranch during the centennial of its founding in 1880. This was also a pivotal period for the ranch's move toward stocking exotic animals for hunting and breeding purposes, a practice that has since become vital to many Texas ranches' economic survival. Told with candor and good humor, Schreiner's memoir of her time on the ranch and how those experiences have continued to shape her life to the present makes for entertaining and enlightening reading. A broad audience of general readers interested in Texas ranching culture and Texana will enjoy Eight Miles from the Front Gate: My Life on the Y.O. Ranch with Charles Schreiner III"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Answered Prayers
- Just a Sheep and Goat Rancher
- Twists of Fate
- South of the Border
- Waltzing across Texas
- Of Hides and Horns
- Home on the Range
- Shock and Awe
- A Gathering of Texas Ranchers
- Looking Forward into the Past
- The Wives of Charlie Three
- Strange New World
- A Colorful Cast of Characters
- Citizen Charlie
- Taking a Chance
- Off to a Frigid Start
- A Horse Wreck
- A New Side of Charlie
- Cowboys Aren't Easy to Love
- Where the Giraffes and the Antelopes Play
- The Bloom is off the Rose
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Long Hard Times
- Difficult Days and Turbulent Nights
- The Worst of Times
- Starting Over
- Together Again
- Fool Me Twice
- A Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
- A Winding Road Back to the Y.O. Ranch
- Remembrance of Things Past
- The Last Roundup
- When Sorrows Come
- The Blues Come to Texas
- This Too Shall Pass Away
- You Can't Go Home Again
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version Schreiner, Norma, 1944- Eight miles from the front gate
- ISBN:
- 9781648433283
- 1648433286
- OCLC:
- 1518185322
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