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Cowboy Days : Stories of the New Mexico Range
Stephen Zimmer ; illustrated by Justin Wells
Published by Zon International. Soft cover.

A collection of exciting stories about working cowboy adventure in the big ranch country of northeastern New Mexico. Set in a land far removed from modern urban life, the cowpunchers in these stories ride the range much as their predecessors did over a hundred years ago. Ride with them through wrecks, stampedes, and broncs and experience the romance and tradition of the cow country that still lives in the
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A Montana Memoir : This Storied Land
Lou Mandler
Published by Pronghorn Press. Soft cover.
265 pages.

Set in remote northeastern Montana, this memoir is at once a paean to the beauty and
power of the high prairie, an elegy to the family farm, and a love story. The center of
Lou Mandler's narrative is the memorable depiction of her parents who, as the family
confronts the daily business of survival--facing hail, drought, blizzards, sickness, and
financial hardship--observe the customs of a fundamentalist religion in bringing up their
nine children. This Storied Land is so universal in its themes and in its portrait of
childhood and family dynamics that it might well be all our stories.



Hollywood the Hard Way:
A Cowboy's Journey

by Patti Dickinson

A true story. A cowboy's wager is honored by his grandson--the hard way. Oklahoma, 1945. Rolla Goodnight and Rolla's best buddy Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton are arguing with Jimmy Wakely, the Hollywood picture cowboy and Monogram Movie Star. Jimmy says the cowboy way of life is as good as dead. Rolla and Frank know better. They make a small bet with Jimmy: It used to take three months to drive drive a herd of cattle along the Goodnight-Loving Trail between the Brazos and Denver--about fifteen hundred miles. Hollywood was about the same distance. Why, a good cowboy could make it, on horseback, in fifty days. They volunteer Jerry Van Meter, Rolla's grandson for the job.
Jerry honors his grandfather's bet, mounts Fan, his Osage indian pony and heads for Hollywood-the Hard Way. With only a compass and map to guide him across rangeland, mountains and desert, young Jerry meets and defeats life-threatening danger from man and beast, the elements, loneliness and hunger, becoming a man in the process.The author vividly parallels Jerry's journey with the newspaper headlines of the day, carrying the reader back to a time when this nation was on the verge of technology, a time when life was still simple and a man's word was his bond.

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For more than twenty years Max Evans has been trying to assemble a book of stories by working cowboysmen who were ranch hands with at least five years of paid experience and women who had either been raised on ranches or joined their husbands on a double hire-out for five years or more. With the expert help of Candy Moulton he has succeeded in collecting eighteen stories set in the Ranching West after 1920 that meet his inflexible requirements: experience plus imagination plus innate writing ability.

The stories in this anthology range as wide as the Rockies, from a murder mystery to the tale of a unique horse trainer, to a family's desperate battle against a grass and forest fire to the story of a world famous violinist. But they share a common denominator: biscuits. Almost every story includes hot biscuits as a feature of daily life in the Ranching West. Biscuits, it turns out, are more important in western life than guns and maybe more than coffee. In the West, people who could make superior biscuits received more respect than the mayor and the police chief combined.

The authors of the stories in Hot Biscuits are:
J. P. S. Brown, Willard Holopeter, Elaine Long, Sinclair Browning, Slim Randles, Lori Van Pelt, Grem Lee, Dick Hyson, Sally C. Bates, Virginia Bennett, Curt Brummett, Jimbo Brewer, Paula Paul, Helen C. Avery, Gwen Peterson; Taylor Fogarty, founder and publisher of American Western Magazine; Candy Moulton, author of nine books of western history; and Max Evans, the author of Madam Millie (UNM Press), Bluefeather Fellini, The Rounders, The Hi Lo Country, and twenty-two other books.


 

 

 

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