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Don’t Make Me Go to Town

Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country

University of Texas Press

Beautifully illustrated with rich black-and-white photographs of ranchwomen at work, Don’t Make Me Go to Town is a remarkable record of women of strength and determination who are striving to preserve an increasingly rare way of life.

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Cowboys at the Start of the Twenty-First Century

University of Texas Press

A magnificent collection of tintype photographs of modern working cowboys taken on ranches in fourteen western U.S. states, British Columbia, Canada, and Coahuila, Mexico.

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Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull

Inventing the Wild West

University of Texas Press

This biography of William Cody focuses on his lifelong relationship with Plains Indians, a vital part of his life story that, surprisingly, has been seldom told.

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Vaqueros, Cowboys, and Buckaroos

University of Texas Press

This comparative look at vaqueros, cowboys, and buckaroos brings the mythical image of the American cowboy into focus and detail and honors the regional and national variations.

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Land of Bright Promise

Advertising the Texas Panhandle and South Plains, 1870-1917

University of Texas Press

Land of Bright Promise is a fascinating exploration of the multitude of land promotions and types of advertising that attracted more than 175,000 settlers to the Panhandle–South Plains area of Texas from the late years of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twentieth.

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Facts as I Remember Them

The Autobiography of Rufe LeFors

University of Texas Press

LeFors's life story, set down near the end of his long and adventurous life, is the best sort of insider's history, the chronicle of a life lived fully amid the exciting events and rough landscape of the frontier's final years.

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Twilight on the Range

Recollections of a Latterday Cowboy

University of Texas Press

Recollections of eighteen years of range-riding in Texas and North Dakota.

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The Texas Land and Development Company

A Panhandle Promotion, 1912-1956

University of Texas Press

The history of the influential Texas Land and Development Company from its inception in 1912 to its final dissolution in January 1956.

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The Franco-Texan Land Company

University of Texas Press

The history of a land company, its railroad parent, and its role in the development of Northwest Texas.

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The LS Brand

The Story of a Texas Panhandle Ranch

University of Texas Press

This book is the story of W. M. D. Lee and Lucien B. Scott's LS Ranch, from the tempestuous years of the open range to the era of "bob wire."

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Littlefield Lands

Colonization on the Texas Plains, 1912–1920

University of Texas Press

A detailed examination of the operations of a land company in the early twentieth century.

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The Taft Ranch

A Texas Principality

By A. Ray Stephens; Introduction by Joe B. Frantz
University of Texas Press

The complete story of the Taft Ranch from its inception in 1880 to its dissolution in 1930.

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The Francklyn Land & Cattle Company

A Panhandle Enterprise, 1882-1957

University of Texas Press

An intensive study of a large Texas ranch, particularly of its business and financial aspects, in which the author has utilized many company records and firsthand accounts by the men who were engaged in the difficult task of establishing and maintaining a

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If I Can Do It Horseback

A Cow-Country Sketchbook

By John Hendrix; Illustrated by Malcolm Thurgood
University of Texas Press

John Hendrix drew upon his own varied experiences for this panoramic view of West Texas ranch life, presented here in an integral compilation of flavorful articles written originally for The Cattleman.

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6000 Miles of Fence

University of Texas Press

This book of reminiscences of old XIT Ranch cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch run.

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