Some More Horse Tradin
DOWNLOAD
Download Some More Horse Tradin PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Some More Horse Tradin book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Some More Horse Tradin
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ben K. Green
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2013-10-23
Some More Horse Tradin written by Ben K. Green and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-23 with Fiction categories.
From the same corral that produced the widely loved Horse Tradin’, Ben “Doc” Green has rounded up fifteen new yarns filled with the ornery yet irresistible “con” that has branded Doc’s books as classics of Western Americana. Some More Horse Tradin’ recounts the go-arounds of Doc and a whole slew of craggy old-timers and rangy characters, including a watermelon hauler “who has a bit of snuff that seeps out a little on his whiskers,” Professor Know-It-All, the “charitable” Mr. Undertaker, and the well-known public cowboy Will Rogers. See all of them matching their wiles and hear a lot of palaver, dealin’ and tradin’ for well-bred usin’-type mares, snorty-like range horses, and even used-to-be bad horses from the tumbleweeded plains of Texas to the mountain meadows of Yankee Vermont. Watch the Doc stretch a city ordinance with a frustrated lawman in “The Last Trail Drive Through Downtown Dallas” and admire the old-time knavery, skill, and salesmanship in such tales as “Gittin’ Even,” “Brethren Horse Traders,” “Mule Schoolin’,” and “Water Treatment and the Sore-Tailed Bronc.” So here you go—with Doc Green and his horse-tradin’ West in finest fettle. As he puts it himself, “These apples come from the same barrel as Horse Tradin’ but they ain’t none of them spotty.”
Horse Tradin
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ben K. Green
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2011-01-05
Horse Tradin written by Ben K. Green and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-05 with Nature categories.
Here are the yarns of a true cowboy for those who have in their blood either a touch of larceny, an affection for the Old West, or better yet, both. These twenty tales add up to a true account of Ben K. Green’s experiences around the corrals, livery stables, and wagon yards of the West. Green was a veterinarian who took down his shingle and went into horse trading, in what he imagined would be retirement. No stranger to the saddle, Green claims to have “with these bloodshot eyes and gnarled hands measured over seventy thousand horses.” His tales range from tricks to make an old horse seem young (at least until the poor creature died from the side effects of the scam) to a recipe for making a dapple-gray mule from a bucket of paint and a chicken’s egg. So you want to go into the horse business? You can learn the knavery, skill, salesmanship, and pure con man hokum of horse trading here, in a book every westerner or horse fancier should have on hand.
Wild Cow Tales
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ben K. Green
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2011-05-18
Wild Cow Tales written by Ben K. Green and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In thirteen stories full of rope burns and brush scratches, the author of the classic Horse Tradin’ tells of the days when he made a specialty of catching wild cows. Ben K. Green calls himself a “stove-up old cowboy,” and readers of this book will learn soon enough where the broken bones came from. Green tells of his adventures with wild steers, sharing with readers the years he worked in thorny brush and canyon country delivering those animals that were too wily or too wild for the normal roundup. Finding them was hard, even dangerous, work. Few cowboys looked for such chores. Green declares, “I got real good at it, but of course in those days I didn’t know any better.”
Village Horse Doctor
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ben K. Green
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2013-10-23
Village Horse Doctor written by Ben K. Green and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-23 with Nature categories.
In the inimitable yarn-spinning fashion of Horse Tradin’ and Wild Cow Tales, Ben K. (Doc) Green now takes us back with him to the deep Southwest and the never-a-dull-moment years he spent as practicing horse doctor—working out of Fort Stockton, Texas—along the Pecos and the Rio Grande, in one of the last big “horse countries” of North America. With precious little formal schooling, but with a perfect (if sometimes profane) corralside manner and plenty of natural wit, Doc became the first to hang up a shingle out there in the trans-Pecos country. And he didn’t start small! The territory he had for his practice was 420 miles north and south by 360 miles east and west. And he covered that territory by all means known to man—shank’s mare, horseback, buckboard, and (his standby for long hauls) a beat-up old coupe on whose body panels he kept his books in chalk. To go with Doc on his rounds, visiting his “patients,” is a nostalgic and hilarious journey into a spacious yesterday—and a liberal education in the kind of horse and cow savvy of which precious little remains in the modern world. As a horseman it was a savvy he came by naturally. But perhaps he learned most from his own research: his own book on horse confirmation, privately published in several printings, is still a bible among practical horsemen; his research in his own laboratory on horse colors and pigmentation has made him an expert on what makes a “strawberry roan” or a “coyote dun.” But the meat of Ben Green’s books is in his yarns. To hear him tell the tales of his struggles with mean and friendly stockmen, yellowweed fever, banditos, poison hay, and “drouth”—to say nothing of his canny mix of science and horse sense when treating animals “that ain’t house pets”—is a 100-proof old-time pleasure.
Horse Trading And Other Tales
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ralph Dye
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Horse Trading And Other Tales written by Ralph Dye and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Horse shows categories.
Horse Tradin
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ben K. Green
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1999-08-01
Horse Tradin written by Ben K. Green and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-01 with Pets categories.
A collection of twenty anecdotes about the Texas West, specifically tales from the corrals, livery stables and wagonyards by the old horse traders. The author is a semi-retired veterinarian.
Horse Trading In The Age Of Cars
DOWNLOAD
Author : Steven M. Gelber
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Horse Trading In The Age Of Cars written by Steven M. Gelber and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with History categories.
The trading, selling, and buying of personal transport has changed little over the past one hundred years. Whether horse trading in the early twentieth century or car buying today, haggling over prices has been the common practice of buyers and sellers alike. Horse Trading in the Age of Cars offers a fascinating study of the process of buying an automobile in a historical and gendered context. Steven M. Gelber convincingly demonstrates that the combative and frequently dishonest culture of the showroom floor is a historical artifact whose origins lie in the history of horse trading. Bartering and bargaining were the norm in this predominantly male transaction, with both buyers and sellers staking their reputations and pride on their ability to negotiate the better deal. Gelber comments on this point-of-sale behavior and what it reveals about American men. Gelber's highly readable and lively prose makes clear how this unique economic ritual survived into the industrial twentieth century, in the process adding a colorful and interesting chapter to the history of the automobile.
Horse Trading In The Age Of Cars
DOWNLOAD
Author : Steven M. Gelber
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2008-10
Horse Trading In The Age Of Cars written by Steven M. Gelber and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10 with Business & Economics categories.
Gelber's highly readable and lively prose makes clear how this unique economic ritual survived into the industrial twentieth century, in the process adding a colorful and interesting chapter to the history of the automobile.
Short Story Index
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Short Story Index written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Short stories categories.
Famous Texas Folklorists And Their Stories
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jim Gramon
language : en
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Release Date : 2000-09-01
Famous Texas Folklorists And Their Stories written by Jim Gramon and has been published by Taylor Trade Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-01 with Social Science categories.
Jim Gramon, a native Texas storyteller, introduces you to some of his friends: John Henry Faulk, Cactus Pryor, Allen Damron, Mason Brewer, Mody Boatright, and Ben King Green. And he shares funny Texas stories from all over the state, from the Oil Patch to the Panhandle, from the Big Bend to the Piney Woods; big towns and small (Dallas, Houston, Austin, El Paso, Terlingua, Manchaca, Cumby, Sulfur Springs, Commerce).