A Vaquero of the Brush Country
by J. Frank Dobie
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- Hardcover
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San Antonio, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover Cloth 302 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Fourth Reprint edition 1952. Elegant tan boards and green embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Previous owners address on first title page. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned. An unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover is discolored with age showing considerable shelf wear - tears, scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
This true story of the Texas brush range and the first cowboys, as thrilling as any tale of fiction, has become a classic in Western literature. It is the story of the land where cattle by tens of thousands were killed on the prairie and where the "Skinning War" was fought.
It is the story of the Chisholm Trail up to Abilene and the Platte and of establishing a ranch on the free grass of the Texas Panhandle, of roping elk in Colorado, of trailing Billy the Kid in New Mexico, of the grim lands of the Pecos. And it is the story of John Young, old-time vaquero who was trail driver, hog chaser, sheriff, ranger, hunter of Mexican bandits, horse-thief killer, prairie-fire fighter, ranch manager, and other things—a man who was also something of a dreamer, a man of imagination.
Called the "Storyteller of the Southwest," James Frank Dobie was born in 1888 on his family's cattle ranch in Live Oak County. During his long life, J. Frank Dobie would live astride two worlds: a rugged life on a Texas cattle ranch and the state's modern centers of scholarly learning.
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- Seller
- River House Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 657301
- Title
- A Vaquero of the Brush Country
- Author
- J. Frank Dobie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1952
- Pages
- 302
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Texana; Biography;
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