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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...
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| 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 |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Duke, Cordia Sloan. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a 6,000 miles of fence : |b life on the XIT Ranch of Texas / |c by Cordia Sloan Duke and Joe B. Frantz. |
| 246 | 3 | |a Six thousand miles of fence | |
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| 490 | 1 | |a M.K. Brown range life series ; |v no. 1 | |
| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 520 | |a 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, tired, hungry cowhands with whom she visited were part of a unique phase of American life. What she particularly perceived was that these men would be glamorized and the memory of their work distorted by writers who could sense a pay vein when they saw one. | ||
| 505 | 2 | |a 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. | |
| 505 | 2 | |a 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. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 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]. | |
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Frantz, Joe Bertram, |d 1917-1993. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Duke, Cordia Sloan. |t 6,000 miles of fence. |d Austin : University of Texas Press, 1961 |z 9780292775640 |w (DLC) 61010042 |w (OCoLC)16729215 |
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