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Classics by J. Frank Dobie |
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Frank Dobie was born on the Railey Ranch in Live Oak County,
south of San Antonio in the brush country. He was beginning
to learn to ride before he finished learning to walk,
and he always felt more at home in the saddle than in a parlor chair.
His stories are classics of the West. |
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The Mustangs.
304 pages
1954
£ 5.00 |
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A Vaquero of the
Brush Country. 1943
302 pages.
£ 10.00 |
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Charles Goodnight
Cowman and Plainsman
Evetts Haley
University of Oklahoma Press 1983 Charlie Goodnight rode bareback from Illinois to Texas
when he was nine years of age. He was hunting with the Caddo Indians
beyond the frontier at thirteen, launching into the cattle business at twenty, guiding Texas Rangers at twenty-four, blazing cattle trails nearly
two thousand miles beyond the trontier at forty, and at forty-five dominating nearly twenty million acres of range country in the interest of order. At sixty he was recognized as possibly the greatest scientific breeder
of range cattle
in the West, and at ninety he was an international authority
on the range industry. b/w text illustrations. 485 pages. £ 15.00 |
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Wild Horses of the Great Basin
Joel Berger
The University of Chicago Press 1986 A study of the wild horses of the
Great Basin Desert/Nevada,
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first thorough study of the biology and ecology of American wild horses,
with insights for all biologists and important implications and recommendations for conservationists
and range managers. b/w text illustrations. 326 pages £ 10.00 |
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The Wild Horse Controversy
H. Smith Thomas
A.S. Barnes & Co., Inc. 1979 A book which covers the entire history of the wild horse in America,
from the first imported Spanish horses
until the present day wild horse herds.
No stone is left unturned. b/w photographs. 284 pages. £ 20.00 |
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The Horses of the Conquest
R.B. Cunninghame Graham
University of Oklahoma Press 1930 The story of the horses
that carried the Conquistadores
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Cortéz, the Pizarros, and De Soto - to the conquest of the Americas. They came from Spain - piebalds, dark chestnuts, grays,
golden bays.
They were the companions
of brave men. b/w illustrations. 144 pages. £ 20.00 |
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The Horse in America
John Gilmer Speed
Russell Lutes, Publisher 1982 Book on the race horse and horse racing in America. 287 pages. £ 8.00 |
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The Horse of the Americas
Robert M. Denhardt
University of Oklahoma Press 1980 Revised and enlarged edition
the book remains the most comprehensive
account available of the arrival, spread, and development of the horse in the New World. Colour - and b/w illustrations. 343 pages. £ 15.00 |
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