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Brush Country
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Author : Elmer Kelton
language : en
Publisher: Forge Books
Release Date : 2006-01-24
Brush Country written by Elmer Kelton and has been published by Forge Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-24 with Fiction categories.
To Elmer Kelton, the brush country of southwest Texas is home. Nobody knows Texas's history, people, beauty, and dangers as well as this greatest of Western writers. Barbed Wire, the first novel in this omnibus, is the story of one-time cowboy Doug Monahan, who runs a fencing crew outside the town of Twin Wells. Monahan, a likeable, hard-working Irishman, and his workers dig post-holes and string red painted barb wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers, and land hungry cattle barons. Their fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school open range cowman of the huge R Cross spread. With his brutal foreman, Archer Spann--who does the violent work of chasing squatters off the range--Rinehart wages a barb wire war against Doug Monahan. A second colorful tale of the brush country is Llano River. Dundee, a onetime cowboy, one of Monahan's fencing crew in Barbed Wire, wanders into the town of Titusville, broke, tired, and itching for a fight. Town patriarch John Titus hires Dundee to find out who is rustling his cattle, but he already has a culprit in mind--Blue Roan Hardesty. Once a friend, now a sworn enemy of the powerful Titus clan, Hardesty is Titus's choice for villain--but Dundee is determined to find out the truth, even if it costs him his job.
A Vaquero Of The Brush Country
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Author : J. Frank Dobie
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 1998-08-01
A Vaquero Of The Brush Country written by J. Frank Dobie and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-08-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
John Young was an old-time vaquero who acted as trail driver, hog chaser, sheriff, ranger, horse thief killer, fire fighter, ranch manager, and more.
Brush Country Backyard
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Author : Karen L. P. Benson
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2013-06-25
Brush Country Backyard written by Karen L. P. Benson and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-25 with Nature categories.
A visitor's first impression of south Texas brush country is a land of dry desolation where every scraggly shrub is armed with vicious thorns. It is the land where wild longhorn cattle roamed free for two hundred years before leather-skinned cowboys learned to herd them to the railheads in Kansas. A more rugged country is hard to imagine. How could anything live here?But closer looks reveal a complex and diverse environment filled with animal and plant richness found nowhere else north of Mexico. Known as the South Texas Plains, the brush country has the highest recorded number of bird species in Texas, and by extension, the highest avian richness in the United States. Complementing the birds, are some of the strangest and most interesting plants, reptiles, and insects to be found in North America.Karen Benson is an ornithologist and a Texas Master Naturalist. A keen curious observer of the nature around her, Karen takes you on a delightful journey of insight and learning as she encounters the plants and animals of the Texas brush country, her Brush Country Backyard.
Brush Country
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Author : Lionel G. Garcia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Brush Country written by Lionel G. Garcia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Poetry categories.
Born during the Great Depression, LIONEL GARCIA spent his early years with his grandfather on a ranch deep in the scrub country of South Texas. It is about his life in that hard-scrabble brush country that Garcia so beautifully writes. In addition to his fictionalized autobiography, I Can Hear the Cowbells Ring, Garcia has published four novels and three collections of stories. Brush Country is the first collection of poetry by this award- winning author.
Kar Nkaway Country
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Author : Roy Bedichek
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-06-28
Kar Nkaway Country written by Roy Bedichek and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-28 with Nature categories.
Roy Bedichek spent most of his life working in the educational field in Texas, but his main interest was always the great outdoors. His first book, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist, was published when he was almost seventy, and his second, Karánkaway Country, appeared three years later. Both were the result of a lifetime of exploring a beloved land, of searching observation, of discussion, debate, wide reading, and reflection. Long out of print, Karánkaway Country is now available in a handsome second edition with a new Foreword by W. W. Newcomb, Jr. Karánkaway Country focuses on the natural history of a strip of coastal prairie lying roughly between Corpus Christi and Galveston and once inhabited by the poorly known and much maligned Karankawa Indians. It serves as home base for an exposition of Bedichek's philosophy, providing a convenient local setting for richly tailored essays on wildlife, soil, human skin, and a variety of other topics suggested by a wide-ranging intellect. Bedichek's philosophy, if it can be reduced to a few words, is essentially that humans must learn to live on peaceful and conciliatory terms with our natural environment.
Deep In The Brush Country
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Author : Lucille Thomas Kruse
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2010-12-07
Deep In The Brush Country written by Lucille Thomas Kruse and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-07 with History categories.
Take a journey deep into South Texas, where Lucille Thomas Kruse grows up as a young girl in Falfurrias during the 1920s and 1930s. The Thomas familys fate is determined when Grandfather Thomas moves all his belongings and farm animals, including his beehives, to Falfurrias in an immigrant railroad car. In letters from 1907, he praises the lush and fertile land with fl owing artesian water. It also turns out to be a great place to grow up, and Kruse recalls life as it used to beexploring the farm she grew up on where she rode horses and found adventure around every corner. When she became a teenager, excitement consisted of climbing onto the roof of the courthouse or trying to outrun a jackrabbit in a car. Kruse also recalls her sophisticated city relatives who streamed in to visit and experience the family farm. Eccentric ranchers, older folks who remember battling Indians and hunters who rely on their hound dogs to go on wolf hunts all fi gure into this historical account. See how life used to be and discover a forgotten piece of America as you venture Deep in the Brush Country.
The Best Of Brush Country Bull 1977 1980
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Author : Henry B. Briscoe
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2012-03
The Best Of Brush Country Bull 1977 1980 written by Henry B. Briscoe and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A Depression-bred, Texas-style Mark Twain recaptures the life of the Brush Country and the heart of America. The best articles from the "Brush Country Bull" weekly newspaper column (1977-2005) in The Devine News by Henry B. Briscoe. Henry Briscoe had quite a life. It began simply on a Depression-era dairy farm near Devine, Texas, continued at Texas Tech University, and then took a 180-degree turn to the military. In the Air Force, Henry flew transport planes around the world, commanded a squadron in Vietnam, and assisted the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. But that Devine boyhood had a strong hold on him spiny cactus, rattlesnakes, horny toads and all so he settled there when his 25-year Air Force career was over. Soon after his return, Henry organized a deer-hunting contest and wrote an article about it in The Devine News. The town folk loved it, so he wrote another. And another. Thus began "Brush Country Bull," a folksy column that would run weekly for 27 years and recall, denounce, poke fun, and celebrate quite literally, EVERYTHING. With a range as big as Texas, Henry "jawed" about midnight buck hunting, dropping bulldozers on an ice island at the North Pole, making deer sausage, supporting the Devine Fire Department, critiquing elected officials, and learning the names of migrating birds. And that's just a sampling. So git you a good cup of coffee, head on out to that porch swing, and spend a little time with Henry.
Brush Country
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Author : Billie Houston
language : en
Publisher: Chavelbooks, LLC
Release Date : 2018-07-22
Brush Country written by Billie Houston and has been published by Chavelbooks, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-22 with categories.
Brush Country is a collection of poems that vary in style, tone, length, and content. Their unity is in the setting, the Brush Country of Central Texas. Whether rugged and rough hewn as the tangled underbrush that grows in in stubborn profusion beneath stately oaks and scrubby mesquites, or as finely wrought as fragile flowers that bloom in shady glades and hidden places, these poems reflect the unique environment, the ambiguous nature, and the exceptional people who inhabit this unusual little corner of the world.
Brush Country
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Author : Barri Bryan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Brush Country written by Barri Bryan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with categories.
Brush Country is a collection of poems that vary greatly in style, tone, length, and content. Their unity is in the setting. Each poem is about some person, place or event that has transpired or been inspired by the Brush Country of Central Texas. Each poem has its own ambiance and its own rhythm. Whether rugged and rough hewn as the tangled underbrush that grows in stubborn profusion beneath the stately oaks and scrubby mesquites or as finely wrought as the fragile flowers that bloom in shady glades and hidden places, these poems reflect the unique environment, the ambiguous nature and the paradoxical people who inhabit this distinctive and unusual little corner of the world.
Seldom Heard
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Author : Dian L. Malouf
language : en
Publisher: Beyond Words
Release Date : 2013-06-25
Seldom Heard written by Dian L. Malouf and has been published by Beyond Words this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-25 with Photography categories.
Seldom Heard is a collection of stories from modern cattlemen (all characters) who have shared vignettes about their ancestors, ranches and their lives on the range. Includes 26 easy to read essays of Southern Texas ranches, many of which date back 100 years in the same family. Includes two of the biggest ranches in Texas –East Family Ranches, and Killam Family Ranches. To go ranch hopping through the great ranches of South Texas is an experience worth having. Dian Malouf knows the old-timers who inhabit them. Her book—Seldom Heard—is an easy read through 26 essays of ranches, many of which date back 100 years in the same family. Some of these vast spreads top 360,000 acres. Don’t miss this book of authentic people who restore your faith in a world overrun by television facelifts and trivial pursuit of rock stars. These rancher’s idiosyncrasies are abundant and amusing, and Dian reveals them with surprise and humor. This is a Texas that may be devoured by urban society in the next 25 years, so meet them while you can. The likes of this authentic and stubborn society of individuals is worth knowing before they leave us.