This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.

"I always wnted to be a cow-puncher," says Shorty Caraway. "As a little kid back on the farm in east Texas I couldn't think of nothin' else." Shorty's father took some persuading, but in the end he staked his fourteen-year-old son to a white pony, a second-hand saddle, and "forty dollars to go with the two I had, an' he said that ought to run me until I got a job." What happened from that day until Shorty was taken on as a regular hand is told in the pages of Ross Santee's "Cowboy," first published in 1982.

"I always wnted to be a cow-puncher," says Shorty Caraway. "As a little kid back on the farm in east Texas I couldn't think of nothin' else." Shorty's father took some persuading, but in the end he staked his fourteen-year-old son to a white pony, a second-hand saddle, and "forty dollars to go with the two I had, an' he said that ought to run me until I got a job." What happened from that day until Shorty was taken on as a regular hand is told in the pages of Ross Santee's "Cowboy," first published in 1982.

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Owner Of A Ranch In The Rocky Mountains Investigates A Trespasser And Has Narrow Escapes.

1925. Contents: The Southwest in Literature; Shafter; Trails; Cattle Kings: Old and New; Cattle Rustlers; The Psychology of Gun-Men; The Texas Ranger; Give-a-Damn Jones; How New York Came to El Paso; Golf, or the Upward Descent of Man; El Paso: The Original Hollywood; What'll It Be, Gentlemen?; My Friends, the Mexicans; and Juarez.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

MEN AND HORSES by ROSS SANTEE with more than one hundred orig inal drawings by the author Published by THE CENTURY Co. New York and London Copyright, 1921, 1922, 1023, 1024, 1925, 1920, by BOSS SANTEE To MY MOTHER CONTENTS PAGB THE PAYSON RODEO 3 THE BULL-FIGHT 15 BUTTON A BOY 25 A FOOL ABOUT A HORSE 35 QUITS 49 THE RUMMY KID 57 SAM 73 THE HORSE-WRANGLER 83 A COW-PUNCHERS PINCH OF SNUFF 97 SHORTY BUYS A HAT 113 A NIGHT IN TOWN 123 THE LUNGER 133 LION LORE H7 THE ROUGH STRING 169 THE KETCH DOG 187 THE SWEDE 203 BUTTERMILK JONES 217 FLIVVER TRAMPS 235 COME AN GET IT 251 THE PAYSON RODEO MEN AND HORSES THE PAYSON RODEO A SORREL bronc was led into the middle of the street a puncher chewed his ear while the saddle was eased on the rider swung up and caught his stirrups. Turn him loose he yelled. Aint much of a show this year said a slit eyed puncher standing beside me. A woman in an automobile shrieked. The sorrel bronc, his eyes bulging, was headed straight toward the car. Two punchers spurred their horses alongside and turned him down the street again. This country was about blowed up before the rain came 3 said the puncher. Still pitching and bawling, the sorrel bronc turned back again, while 3

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1925. Contents: The Southwest in Literature; Shafter; Trails; Cattle Kings: Old and New; Cattle Rustlers; The Psychology of Gun-Men; The Texas Ranger; Give-a-Damn Jones; How New York Came to El Paso; Golf, or the Upward Descent of Man; El Paso: The Original Hollywood; What'll It Be, Gentlemen?; My Friends, the Mexicans; and Juarez.