Cowboys Who Rode Proudly, Carrying Cattle ... And The Methods Of Handling Them. Twenty-Eight Biographical Essays, Written By Fifteen Contributors And Illustrated By Eleven Artists.

HALEY JR., EVETTS [COMPILED & EDITED BY].

Publication: The Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library, 1992, Midland

First edition. Quarto. Quarter leather and decorated cloth, brand maps on endpapers, xxxi [1], 287 pp., illustrations by Beeler, Morton, Moline, Bryers, Moyers, Cornay, Scott, Baize, Ryan, Capron, and Hampton. Introduction, foreword, preface and acknowledgments, afterword, the brands, index. Twenty-eight sketches of the lives of cowboys or families of cowboys, who worked largely within the barbed wire, after the closing of the Southwestern frontier. They all lived primarily in Texas, Oklahoma or New Mexico. Each sketch delves into the life and work of individuals ranging from camp hands, wagon bosses, and range managers, to independent ranchers. Fifteen contributors and with illustrations by eleven artists, all about cowboys and cattle. Fine bright copy in bright dust jacket.