The Pecos River flows snake-like out of New Mexico and across West Texas before striking the Rio Grande. In frontier Texas, the Pecos was more moat than river, a deadly barrier of quicksand, treacherous currents, and impossibly steep banks. Only at its crossings - with such legendary names as Horsehead and Pontoon - could travelers hope to gain ...
Whether destined to be remembered or forgotten, a cowhand clung to life with all the zeal with which he approached his trade. He was the most loyal of employees, repeatedly putting his neck on the line for a mere dollar a day. Based on interviews with 76 men who cowboyed in Texas, New Mexico, and other parts of the West before 1932, the book ...
The Lone Star Heroes series brings to like the action and excitement of Texas History, lore, and legend. Each book includes a chapter on the history behind the story.
From true cowhands who stood tall in the saddle as the prototypes of the American myth, historian Patrick Dearen has collected priceless, spellbinding stories of a simpler era when a man's word was his bond and a cowhand rode hard and lived harder. Within the pages of this book these genuine legends who rode through a golden moment in American ...
A warm, gripping novel of the more modern West that explores a subject of intense interest to all Americans. Wonderfully told, this novel should endure. -- Norman Zollinger Takes an unusually compassionate view of the illegal alien s plight. Though the "wetback" breaks the law by "crossing over, " he usually does so only in desperation, for home ...
Charlie Lyles had been pushed and prodded by the modern world--and he was about to change the rules. Leaving a perfectly good pickup behind, Charlie stole a horse, jumped his parole, and rode into the wilderness. With law enforcement tracking him into territory that hadn't changed in over a century, Charlie discovers that he's the last cowboy ...
From San Angelo to El Paso, the Pecos River country of West Texas is rich in history and legend. This new edition explores the haunting story of the lost Sublett gold mine.
Fourteen-year-old Josh and his friend Shan are facing hard times on their families? farms in Central Texas in 1934. It's the days of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and rain is as scarce as money. With the long dry spell have come wild animals with flashing teeth and deadly rabies. Dust storms known a black blizzards are raging, threatening ...
Eleven-year-old Fish Rawlings has always wanted to be a cowboy. Now, in the spring of 1868, he has his chance. The days ahead will be filled with sandstorms and stampedes, lightning and twisters. It's the roughest stretch of cattle trail in Texas, and it will either make a cowhand out of a boy or break him.
It's 1867 and eleven-year-old Fish Rawlings and his cousin are headed across Texas on a wagon train. Among the Indians is eleven year old Hunting Bear, who is riding his first war trail. Fish has been taught to hate Comanches. Hunting Bear has been taught to hate white men. But all of that changes when the two boys come face to face and become ...
It was 1932, the depths of the Great Depression, and thousands of desperate people rode the rails in search of jobs, homes, and hope. For some, the track was a road to nowhere, a dead end in a boxcar or under the wheels or in a sea of emptiness. Their fate seemed certain ? until Ish Watson grabbed the rungs of a passing freight train bound for a ...
An 1886 newspaper termed the Pecos River of Texas and southern New Mexico "the cowboy's paradise". One cowhand even reckoned "the Pecos boys were the most expert cowboys in the world". On the Pecos they had to be, for in frontier times it was a river so treacherous it was known as the "graveyard of the cowman's hopes". This account tells the full ...
Patrick Dearen went in search of buried treasures, not gold or silver or jewels, but untapped tales worthy of J. Frank Dobie. And he found for "Lone Star Lost" ten such stories that spring from the bedrock, shared with the author by native sons and daughters who know that the real treasure is our Texas heritage. These stories grew from the land - ...
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