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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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