"El Cojo" (The Lame One) The Story Of South Texas Cattleman And Banker Charles Waugh Hellen, Sr

CHARLES W. "BILL" HELLEN

Publication: C W Hellen Ranches, LTD, 2014, Hebbronville

First edition. 4to. Limited to 500 copies. Signed by the author. Cloth, brand on front cover and titles on spine in silver gilt, decorated endpapers, xiii [1], 122 pp., frontispiece, introduction, acknowledgements, illustrated from photographs, map, portraits. The Hellen family has been involved in the south Texas cattle ranching business for 120 years, surviving destructive weather and droughts, early day frontier dangers, unpredictable cattle markets, and burdensome government regulations and taxes. There are two main branches in Jim Hogg County, El Ebanito and La Mota. This is their story with firsthand accounts by the founder, Charles Waugh Hellen Sr. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.