BOOKS by J. Frank Dobie

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1	The mustangs more books like this by J. Frank Dobie J. Frank Dobie, master storyteller of the American Southwest, here tells the tale of the wild and free mustangs that once roamed the western ranges. This is the story, too, of the white men and the Indians, no less wild and free, who captured them, gentled them, rode them, and annihilated them. An American classic, The Mustangs is a thoughtful and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Longhorns more books like this by J Frank Dobie The Texas Longhorn made more history than any other breed of cattle the world has known. These wiry, intractable beasts were themselves pioneers in a harsh land, moving elementally with drouth, grass, Arctic blizzards, and burning winds. Their story is the bedrock on which the history of the cow country of America is founded. J. Frank Dobie was ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines & Buried Treasures of the Southwest more books like this by J Frank Dobie "Dobie has discovered for us a native Arabian Night." -- Chicago Evening Post "As entrancing a volume as one is likely to pick up in a month of Sundays." -- The New York Times "This is the best work ever written on hidden treasure, and one of the most fascinating books on any subject to come out of Texas." -- Basic Texas Books Written in 1930, ... see all copies from $2.70! new only from $13.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The voice of the coyote more books like this by J. Frank Dobie 'Deftly blends the natural history of the coyote with anecdote, tall tales and legend gathered from the author's wide reading and personal experience in his native region' - "New York Times Book Review". 'Mr. Dobie has done for the coyote what he did for the longhorn in his book about that breed. He's been some 30 years gathering this material, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Tales of Old-Time Texas more books like this by J Frank Dobie 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 son, 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Apache Gold&yaqui Silver more books like this by J Frank Dobie Buried vaults stacked with gold bars, secret caches of coins and jewels plundered from the Spaniards and the Church, exposed veins of ore with nuggets the size of turkey eggs. Guarded by the bones of dead men, the legendary treasures of the Southwest still wait for those foolhardy or desperate enough to seek them. Death is the cure for gold ... see all copies from $3.47! new only from $11.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	A Texas Ranger more books like this by N. A. Jennings, J. Frank Dobie Eighteen-year-old Napoleon Augustus Jennings came to Texas in 1874 and joined a special force of Texas Rangers charged with border patrol under the command of L. H. McNelly. At this time the South Texas region was home to hundreds of outlaws and riffraff, and some three thousand Mexican guerrillas under Juan Cortina and others were raiding ... see all copies from $4.25! new only from $4.90! \| first editions
8	Rattlesnakes more books like this by J Frank Dobie Here are observations and speculations, legends and yarns, even gossip about the habits and dispositions of these extraordinary creatures-- rattlesnakes-- their reported size, deadliness, and power to charm their natural enemies. Here are descriptions of actual fights to the death between rattlesnakes and other animals and accounts of the strange ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.49! \| first editions
9	Cow people more books like this by J. Frank Dobie Cow People records the fading memories of a bygone Texas, the reminiscences of the cow people themselves. These are the Texans of the don't-fence-me-in era, their faces pinched by years of squinting into the desert glare, tanned by the sun and coarsened by the dust of the Chisholm Trail. Their stories are often raucous but just as often quiet as ... see all copies from $5.95! new only from $16.96! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Ben Lilly Legend more books like this by J Frank Dobie The Ben Lilly Legend brings back to life a great American hunter--the greatest bear hunter in history after Davy Crockett, by his own account and also by the record. J. Frank Dobie met Lilly and was so struck by this extraordinary man that he collected everything he could find about him. Lilly was born in Alabama in 1856, followed the bear and ... see all copies from $9.26! new only from $14.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	I'll Tell You a Tale: An Anthology more books like this by J Frank Dobie, Isabel Gaddis (Photographer) I'll Tell You a Tale is a garland of some of Frank Dobie's best writing, put together by Isabel Gaddis, one of his former students at the University of Texas. The tales included are those the author himself liked best, and he even rewrote some of them especially for this anthology. Ben Carlton Mead has contributed 32 original line drawings to ... see all copies from $2.45! new only from $14.56! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Texas Cowboy; Or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony more books like this by Charles A Siringo, J Frank Dobie (Introduction by) This classic cowboy memoir, originally published in 1885, relates the real-life experience of Siringo, a cowhand adventurer of the Wild West. This work is vastly responsible for the romanticism of the West, influencing the likes of Will Rogers. Siringo later served as a Hollywood consultant before his death in 1928. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Tongues of the Monte more books like this by J. Frank Dobie see all copies from $4.49! first editions
14	Some Part of Myself more books like this by J Frank Dobie see all copies from $1.99! first editions
15	The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes more books like this by Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Frank V Dearing (Photographer), J Frank Dobie (Designer) Eugene Manlove Rhodes's masterpiece, "Paso Por Aqui," opens this collection of his short novels and stories, set in New Mexico, where he lived during the 1880s and 1890s. J. Frank Dobie praised Rhodes's artistry, and Bernard DeVoto thought he wrote "much the best dialogue . . . Of western characters since Mark Twain." Included are the novelettes ... see all copies from $17.50! new only from $45.54! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Out of the old rock more books like this by J Frank Dobie see all copies from $1.99! first editions
17 view cover	A Vaquero of the Brush Country more books like this by J Frank Dobie 1929. Partly from the reminiscences of John Young. Contents: The Making of a Vaquero; The Mossy Horns; For Their Hides and Tallow; The Razorbacks; The Bloody Border; If Not Law-Then Order; Up the Chisholm Trail; Bringing in the Strays; Dodging Comanches and Hunting Water; Establishing a Ranch on the Plains; From Hell to Breakfast; Billy the Kid ... see all copies from $3.71! signed copies \| first editions
18	Up the Trail From Texas (Landmark Book) by J. Frank Dobie see all copies from $2.94! signed copies \| first editions
19	A Texan in England more books like this by J Frank Dobie see all copies from $2.00! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Legends of Texas more books like this by J Frank Dobie (Editor) see all copies from $10.00! new only from $21.95! \| SVS
21 view cover	Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest more books like this by Dobie STEPHEN F. AUSTIN wanted to exclude lawyers, along with roving frontiersmen, from his colonies in Texas, and hoped thus to promote a utopian society. The lawyers got in, however. Their wit, the anecdotes of which they were both subject and author, and the political stories they made traditional from the stump, have not been adequately set down. see all copies from $4.40! new only from $10.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22	Happy Hunting Ground more books like this by J Frank Dobie (Editor) see all copies from $8.00! new only from $16.95! \| SVS
23 view cover	Legends of Texas Volume I: The Lost Treasures more books like this by J Frank Dobie The legends of Texas are as sizeable as the state itself, and the West's greatest historian has assembled here a fascinating collection of them. see all copies from $3.85! new only from $5.48! \| SVS
24	Afield with J. Frank Dobie: Tales of Critters, Campfires, and the Hunting Trail more books like this by J Frank Dobie, Neil B Carmony (Editor), Fred Barraza (Illustrator) see all copies from $8.98! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
25	Prefaces more books like this by J. Frank Dobie see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions

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