The fabulous XIT Ranch has been celebrated in song, story, and serious history. This book of reminiscences of old XIT cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch run. Their forthright, yet picturesque, discussion of ranching hardships and dangers dissipates Hollywood and TV glamorizing. They relate in honest cowboy language what actually happened inside the XIT's 6,000 miles of fence.
Cordia Sloan Duke, wife of an XIT division manager, Robert L. Duke, many years ago realized that only those who had experienced ranch life could depict it with deep understanding. As the young wife of a rising young ranch hand, she kept in her apron pocket a notebook and pencil, recording all manner of interesting details as they caught her attention. This diary was the nucleus for the present book. Conceiving of an account of life on the XIT as presented by XIT cowboys, Mrs. Duke set about drawing from reticent, sometimes reluctant, ranch hands the impressions of the XIT (occasionally written down by their more literate wives or daughters) which they had retained through the years. Cordia Sloan Duke and Joe B. Frantz have organized the reminiscences around key aspects of ranch life, retaining the language of the cow hands.

6000 Miles of Fence (M. K. Brown Range Life Series)

History

Duke, Cordia Sloan

FRANTZ, Joe B.

Americas

University of Texas Press

A short handbook depicting the cowboy as a part of the whole Western panorama. Looks at the cowboy solemnly and reflectively with relation to his role in frontier history and as he appears in literature.

The American Cowboy: The Myth and the Reality

Choate, Julian Ernest Jr.

Praeger

A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 222 pp. Illus. with 14 b/w photos. Inscribed by the author.

Texas: A Bicentennial History

Norton

Frontier Forts of Texas

A study of Forts Belknap, Bliss, Brown, CLark, Concho, Davis, Mason, and Sam Houston. Introduction by Rupert N. Richardson. Original paintings by Melvin C. Warren.

Day, James M.

Neighbours, Kenneth F.

Nunn

Conger, Roger N.

Texas Press

Few historians know and love the American West better than Joe Frantz does, and few have written more critically about it. His addresses and articles, marked by both insight and charm, have brought him much acclaim, as have his books. The three thought-provoking essays in this volume are excellent examples of his work. The first essay, “Yellowstone National Park: Genesis of an Urban Solution,” was first delivered by Dr. Frantz as the Norman Furniss Lecture at Colorado State University in 1971 and was subsequently published in Montana: The Magazine of Western History. In it he portrays the Yellowstone experience as a “starting block” from which the nation has been “groping toward cooperating with our environment instead of forever and inflexibly demanding its unconditional surrender to our short-tempered and temporary needs and demands.” The force and meaning of this address have increased with every year that has passed since it was first delivered. “Western Impact on the Nation,” the second essay, was delivered at the banquet of the annual meeting of the Western History Association in Omaha in 1969 and was published in Western Historical Quarterly. The true impact of the West, Frantz writes, is that it has acted as “a beacon to the world illuminating the belief that progress is accidental and miraculous, and unplanned.” Its message, he says, is “the message of the old prospector always looking for one more stake, always dreaming of rich veins that never run out…” The final essay, “The American West: Child of Federal Subsidy,” was delivered at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in 1963. As Frantz’s most controversial and widely quoted speech, it provoked a storm of criticism. Westerners, Frantz says, did indeed “triumph over monumental obstacles that develop a man, that make him self-reliant, that give him understanding and patience, and that let him know that individual and collective success is possible.” However, he concludes, the Westerner has been subsidized from start to finish by a federal government “which was sometimes benign, sometimes dictatorial, but which always, like a watching parent, was there.”

Aspects of the American West: Three Essays (Volume 1) (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest)

Texas A&M University Press

Many of the original county maps are rare and seldom seen. A good look into the early Texas land records of 81counties. Including: Brazos, Aransas, Cameron, Duval, Goliad, Hidalgo, Nueces, Refugio, Victoria, Webb,Wilson, Zapata, Zavala, Bowie, Gregg, Houston, Jefferson, Marion, Nacogdoches, Orange,Rusk, San Augustine, Shelby, Smith, Tyler, Walker, Austin, Bastrop, De Witt, Guadalupe, Gonzales, Travis, Washington, Bexar, Comal, Gillespie, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Llano, Uvalde, Dallas, Grayson and others.

Lure of the Land: Texas County Maps and the History of Settlement

Science & Math

Cox, Mike.

Griffin, Roger A.

Earth Sciences

Texas A & M Univ Pr

Gail Borden: Dairyman To A Nation

Format Hardcover Subject Literary Collections

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Literary Licensing, LLC

Literature & Fiction

Literary

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