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Buffalo Guns and Barbed Wire - Two Frontier Accounts by Don Hampton Biggers (Paperback)
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Buffalo Guns and Barbed Wire - Two Frontier Accounts by Don Hampton Biggers (Paperback)
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Newspaperman Don Hampton Biggers witnessed the last years of the
West Texas frontier and grew intrigued with the buffalo hunters,
the early cattlemen, and the stories they told. As the twentieth
century began, he was collecting and publishing the recollections
of old-timers who had participated in making Texas history. This
book combines two of Biggers's works, History That Will Never Be
Repeated> (1901) and Pictures of the Past (1902)--both rare and
coveted by collectors of Texana. The two, republished in 1991 as a
Book Club of Texas special edition and trade clothbound edition,
are now available in paperback for the first time. For Pictures of
the Past the author wove old buffalo hunters' stories into
descriptions of the herds, the slaughter, Indian incidents, Fort
Griffin, the battle at Adobe Walls, and much more. History That
Will Never Be Repeated records lore of the cattle industry in West
Texas from 1876. In these vivid accounts by cowboys and ranchers
are some of the most emblematic events of the American West--riding
line, working roundup, turning a drift herd--recalled not for their
romance but for their hardship and for the sheer endurance required
of the men who lived them. The remarkable period photography of
George Robertson and Erwin E. Smith illustrates the book in duotone
throughout.
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