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6,000 miles of fence : life on the XIT Ranch of Texas /
In 1907 Cordelia Jane Sloan married Robert L. Duke, a ranch hand who had risen to division manager for the 3,000,000-acre XIT Ranch of Texas, the world's largest. An eager observer, she early began the habit of keeping a diary. As time passed, she had the foresight to realize that the sweaty, t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
1961.
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| Colección: | M.K. Brown range life series ;
no. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Cordia Sloan Duke
- Those who remembered
- and recorded
- The ranch
- Work
- And more work
- Fire fighting
- Herding
- Roundup
- Stampedes
- Rustling
- Horses
- Montana
- Weather
- Sour dough and supplies
- The other side of the draw
- Frolicking
- Afterwards
- Appendix: horses remembered by XIT men.
- Illustrations: R.L. "Bob" Duke, the last XIT general manager to run cattle, ca. 1912
- XIT wagons on the move in Montana / E. [Evelyn] J. Cameron
- XIT wagon in camp, Montana, 1906: Mose Howard, Ed Thompson, T.D. McMakin, Harry Smith, Ed Payne, M.L. Phipps, Ed Weisner, Jay Case, Bill Quigley / E.J. Cameron
- The Montana hands at Cedar Creek, 1910 / E.J. Cameron
- Jim Perry
- On the Montana range in 1902: Charlie Clements, Myrtle Buckley, May Buckley, Mable Buckley, John K. Marsh
- A July 4 celebration near Terry, Montana / E.J. Cameron
- Forty years later, old-timers gather in Dalhart: Arch Sneed, Mrs. Duke, Goldie Thomas, Frank Farwell, Charlie Alford, George Hayden, Bob Beverly, Mike Crow, Hall Medford, Bill Culbertson, Bill Askew / Bill Rhew Picture Service
- Bill Lytle, Steve Dugger, Jim Hunt, Ed Jeffries, Tom Taylor.
- Maps: XIT Ranch
- XIT country
- XIT trails: Montana trail ; Yellow Houses
- Colorado City; Tascosa
- Dodge City; Tascosa
- Springer; Buffalo Springs
- Trinidad
- Eastern Montana trails [inset].