01745cam a2200277 4500 516918756 TxAuBib 20210916120000.0 740218s1957||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u TxAuBib Dobie, J. Frank, 1888-1964, (James Frank.) A vaquero of the brush country : partly from the reminiscences of John Young / by J. Frank Dobie. Illustrated by Justin C. Gruelle. Preface by Lawrence Clarke Powell. Vaquero of the Brush Country, A. Boston : Little, Brown, [1957] xvi, 302 p : illus ; 22 cm. Bibliography: p. [263]-265. This true story of the Texas brush range and the first cowboys, as thrilling as any tale of fiction, has become a classic in Western literature. It is the story of the land where cattle by tens of thousands were killed on the prairie and where the "Skinning War" was fought. It is the story of the Chisholm Trail up to Abilene and the Platte and of establishing a ranch on the free grass of the Texas Panhandle, of roping elk in Colorado, of trailing Billy the Kid in New Mexico, of the grim lands of the Pecos. And it is the story of John Young, old-time vaquero who was trail driver, hog chaser, sheriff, ranger, hunter of Mexican bandits, horse thief killer, prairie fire fighter, ranch manager, and other things—a man who was also something of a dreamer, a man of imagination. 20210916. Texas Rangers. Frontier and pioneer life Texas. Ranch life Texas. Cowboys. Texana. Young, John Duncan, 1856- BTCLS