Mr. D.B. Gardner's Pitchfork Ranch
Author: Margaret A. Elliot
Publisher:
Published: 1945
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead and Download eBook Full
Author: Margaret A. Elliot
Publisher:
Published: 1945
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jim Lanning
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780890966587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of twenty-three Depression-era interviews in which Texas cowhands describe their everyday responsibilities and experiences.
Author: Ella Elgar Bird Dumont
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014-07-03
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0292772157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA crack shot, expert skinner and tanner, seamstress, sculptor, and later writer—a list that only hints at her intelligence and abilities—Ella Elgar Bird Dumont was one of those remarkable women who helped tame the Texas frontier. First married at sixteen to a Texas Ranger, she followed her husband to Comanche Indian country in King County, where they lived in a tepee while participating in the final slaughter of the buffalo. Living off the land until the frontier was opened for ranching, Ella and Tom Bird typified the Old West ideals of self-sufficiency and generosity, with a hesitancy to complain about the hard life in the late 1800s. Yet, in one important way, Ella Dumont was unsuited for life on the frontier. Endowed with an instinctive desire and ability to carve and sculpt, she was largely prevented from pursuing her talents by the responsibilities of marriage and frontier life and later, widowhood with two small children. Even though her second marriage, to Auguste Dumont, made life more comfortable, the realities of her existence still prevented the fulfillment of her artistic longings. Ella Bird Dumont’s memoir is rich with details of the frontier era in Texas, when Indian depredations were still a danger for isolated settlers, where animals ranged close enough to provide dinner and a new pair of gloves, and where sheer existence depended on skill, luck, and the kindness of strangers. The vividness and poignancy of her life, coupled with the wealth of historical material in the editor’s exhaustive notes, make this Texas pioneer’s autobiography a very special book.
Author: Claude Elliott
Publisher:
Published: 1955
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor:
Publisher:
Published: 1944
Total Pages: 726
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor:
Publisher:
Published: 1944
Total Pages: 768
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor:
Publisher:
Published: 1905
Total Pages: 808
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor:
Publisher:
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Holmes Jenkins
Publisher: Austin, Tex. : Pemberton Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA bibliography of Texas Town and County histories.
Author: Mamie Sypert Burns
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen D Burns arrived at the mighty Pitchfork Ranch as the new manager in 1942, he walked straight into the hostility of a lot of longtime hands who did not want to take orders from an outsider. Gradually, though, D and his wife, Mamie, won allies and made a place for themselves on the historic spread. For the next twenty-three years Mamie jotted down stories about the cowhands, the cooks and gardeners at the Big House, the many guests, and her own lively family.