Cowboys, Ranching & Cattle Trails: A New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book
ISBN-13:
9780865349452
ISBN-10:
0865349452
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Anne Valley-Fox, Ann Lacy
Publication date:
2013
Publisher:
Sunstone Press
Format:
Paperback
384 pages
Category:
Native American
,
Americas History
,
State & Local
,
United States History
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ISBN-13:
9780865349452
ISBN-10:
0865349452
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Anne Valley-Fox, Ann Lacy
Publication date:
2013
Publisher:
Sunstone Press
Format:
Paperback
384 pages
Category:
Native American
,
Americas History
,
State & Local
,
United States History
Summary
Cowboys, Ranching & Cattle Trails: A New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book (ISBN-13: 9780865349452 and ISBN-10: 0865349452), written by authors
Anne Valley-Fox, Ann Lacy, was published by Sunstone Press in 2013.
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Description
Was life on the range in the 1880s and 1890s anything like the hard riding, hard working, hard drinking shoot 'em up images that moviegoers saw in old Westerns? Yes--and then some, the authentic documents in this collection tell us. Cowboys, sheepherders, ranchers and all those around them in Territorial New Mexico were engaged in constant life-and-death struggles. They battled with each other and with Indians. They endured blizzards, fires, drought, floods, disease and stampeding cattle. In one account, on the morning after Comanche Indians stole all their cattle, James Chisum told his daughter, ''Cheer up, Sallie, the worst is yet to come.'' Also included in this collection are reports of cooperation and glimpses of daily happiness: the simple pleasure of riding the range; camaraderie during roundups; hot meals dished out from the chuck wagon; cow camp entertainments; trips to town for fandangos; a sheepherder resting beneath the constellations and his breakfast of burraniates. There are also high-spirited narratives describing the taming of a good steer, adventures along the cattle trails, the retrieval of mavericks and the roundup of mustangs. If the stories in this collection seem familiar, they are also surprisingly fresh. Luckily for the rest of us, field workers in the Federal Writers' Project (a branch of the government-funded Works Progress Administration, or WPA, later called the Work Projects Administration), loved to listen and record as much as their subjects liked to talk. The resulting stories from 1935 to 1939 are rich in detail and human spirit. This collection also includes local newspaper articles, reports from New Mexico governors on the state of the livestock industry, cowboy poems, square dance calls, descriptions and drawings of cattle brands, glossaries of cowboy terms and the names of ranches in Colfax County. Cowboys, Ranching & Cattle Trails is the fifth volume in the New Mexico Federal Writers' Project book series. Previous titles are Outlaws & Desperados, Frontier Stories, Lost Treasures & Old Mines and Stories from Hispano New Mexico.
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