Twilight on the Range : : Recollections of a Latterday Cowboy / / William Timmons.

Billie Timmons was fourteen when he met Charles Goodnight—over a wagonload of manure that had been jammed on a gatepost—and he went to work on the Goodnight Cross J Ranch shortly thereafter. The spirit of helpfulness that led Mr. Goodnight to strip off his coat and lift the wagon free for a lad in n...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2014]
©1962
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:M. K. Brown Range Life Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • I. CHARLES GOODNIGHT MEETS ME
  • II. I START AT THE TOP
  • III. GAY NINETIES ON A CATTLE RANCH
  • IV. LURE OF THE DUSTY CATTLE TRAIL
  • V. A DREAM IS SHATTERED
  • VI. LOTS OF EXPERIENCE, QUICK
  • VII. THE NORTHERN LIGHTS COME CLOSER
  • VIII. LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING WITH FOUR BUFFALOES
  • IX. ON THE FENCELESS RANGE
  • X. A VERY FORTUNATE CONNECTION
  • XI. BUCK
  • XII. A NORTH DAKOTA SNOWSTORM
  • XIII. A COWBOY IN BUSINESS
  • XIV. A WESTERN CATERER
  • XV. UPS AND DOWNS—MOSTLY DOWNS
  • XVI. IN TEXAS AGAIN
  • XVII. BROKER AND FOREMAN
  • XVIII. OF PEOPLE AND HORSES
  • XIX. SOCIAL ITEMS ON THE RANGE
  • XX. SPEAKING OF WEATHER
  • XXI. BACK TO THE CATTLE
  • XXII. THE CHANGING TIMES
  • INDEX OF NAMES