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FORD, GUS L. _Texas Cattle Brands_, Dallas, 1936. A catalogue
of brands. OP.

FRENCH, WILLIAM. _Some Recollections of a Western Ranchman_,
London, 1927. A civilized Englishman remembers. OP.

GANN, WALTER. _The Trail Boss_, Boston, 1937. Faithful
fiction, with a steer that Charlie Russell should have
painted. OP.

GARD, WAYNE. _Frontier Justice_, University of Oklahoma Press,
Norman, 1949. This book could be classified under "The Bad Man
Tradition," but it has authentic chapters on fence-cutting,
the so-called "Johnson County Cattlemen's War" of Wyoming, and
other range "difficulties." Clearly written from an equable
point of view. Useful bibliography of range books.

GIBSON, J. W. (Watt). _Recollections of a Pioneer_, St.
Joseph, Missouri (about 1912). Like many another book
concerned only incidentally with range life, this contains
essential information on the subject. Here it is trailing
cattle from Missouri to California in the 1840's and 1850's.
Cattle driving from the East to California was not
economically important. The outstanding account on the subject
is _A Log of the Texas-California Cattle Trail, 1854_, by
James G. Bell, edited

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Tom Lea, in _The Longhorns_ by J. Frank Dobie (1941)}

by J. Evetts Haley, published in the _Southwestern Historical
Quarterly_, 1932 (Vols. XXXV and XXXVI). Also reprinted as a
separate.

GILFILLAN, ARCHER B. _Sheep_, Boston, 1929. With humor and
grace, this sheepherder, who collected books on Samuel Pepys,
tells more about sheep dogs, sheep nature, and sheepherder
life than any other writer I know. OP.

GIPSON, FRED. _Fabulous Empire_, Houghton Mifflin, Boston,
1946. Biography of Zack Miller of the 101 Ranch and 101 Wild
West Show.

GOODWYN, FRANK. _Life on the King Ranch_, Crowell, New York,
1951. The author was reared on the King Ranch. He is
especially refreshing on the vaqueros, their techniques and
tales.

GRAY, FRANK S. _Pioneer Adventures_, 1948, and _Pioneering in
Southwest Texas_, 1949, both printed by the author, Copperas
Cove, Texas. These books are listed because the author has the
perspective of a civilized gentleman and integrates home life
on frontier ranches with range work.

GREER, JAMES K. _Bois d'Arc to Barbed Wire_, Dallas, 1936.
Outstanding horse lore. OP.

HAGEDORN, HERMANN. _Roosevelt in the Bad Lands_, Boston, 1921.
A better book than Roosevelt's own _Ranch Life and the Hunting
Trail_. OP.

HALEY, J. EVETTS. _The XIT Ranch of Texas_, Chicago, 1929. As
county and town afford the basis for historical treatment of
many areas, ranches have afforded bases for various range
country histories. Of such this is tops. A lawsuit for libel
brought by one or more individuals mentioned in the book put a
stop to the selling of copies by the publishers and made it
very "rare." _Charles Goodnight, Cowman and Plainsman_,
Boston, 1936, reissued by University of Oklahoma Press,
Norman, 1949. Goodnight, powerful individual and extraordinary
observer, summed up in himself the whole life of range and
trail. Haley's book, packed with realities of incident and
character, paints him against a mighty background. _George W.
Littlefield, Texan_, University of Oklahoma Presss
Norman, Okla., 1943, is a lesser biography of a lesser man.

HAMILTON, W. H. _Autobiography of a Cowman_, in _South Dakota
Historical Collections_, XIX (1938), 475-637. A first-rate
narrative of life on the Dakota range.

HAMNER, LAURA V. _Short Grass and Longhorns_, Norman,
Oklahoma, 1943. Sketches of Panhandle ranches and ranch
people. OP.

HARRIS, FRANK. _My Reminiscences as a Cowboy_, 1930. A blatant
farrago of lies, included in this list because of its supreme
worthlessness. However, some judges might regard the
debilitated and puerile lying in _The Autobiography of Frank
Tarbeaux_, as told to Donald H. Clarke, New York, 1930, as
equally worthless.

HART, JOHN A., and Others. _History of Pioneer Days in Texas
and Oklahoma_. No date or place of publication; no table of
contents. This slight book was enlarged into _Pioneer Days in
the Southwest from 1850 to 1879_, "Contributions by Charles
Goodnight, Emanuel Dubbs, John A. Hart and Others," Guthrie,
Oklahoma, 1909. Good on the way frontier ranch families lived.
The writers show no sense of humor and no idea of being
literary.

HASTINGS, FRANK S. _A Ranchman's Recollections_, Chicago,
1921. OP. Hastings was urbane, which means he had perspective;
"Old Gran'pa" is the most pulling cowhorse story I know.

HENRY, O. _Heart of the West_. Interpretative stories of Texas
range life, which O. Henry for a time lived. His range stories
are scattered through several volumes. "The Last of the
Troubadours" is a classic.

HENRY, STUART. _Our Great American Plains_, New York, 1930.
OP. An unworshipful, anti-Philistinic picture of Abilene,
Kansas, when it was at the end of the Chisholm Trail. While
not a primary range book, this is absolutely unique in its
analysis of cow-town society, both citizens and drovers.
Stuart Henry came to Abilene as a boy in 1868. His brother was
the first mayor of the town. After graduating from the
University of Kansas in 1881, he in time acquired "the habit
of authorship." He had written a book on London and _French
Essays and Profiles_ and _Hours with Famous Parisians_ before
he returned to Kansas for a subject. Some of his non-complimentary
characterizations of westerners aroused a mighty
roar among panegyrists of the West. They did not try to refute
his anecdote about the sign of the Bull Head Saloon. This sign
showed the whole of a great red bull. The citizens of Abilene
were used to seeing bulls driven through town and they could
go out any day and see bulls with cows on the prairie. Nature
might be good, but any art suggesting nature's virility was
indecent. There was such an uprising of Victorian taste that
what distinguishes a bull from a cow had to be painted out. A
similar artistic operation had to be performed on the bull
signifying Bull Durham tobacco--once the range favorite for
making cigarettes.

HILL, J. L. _The End of the Cattle Trail_, Long Beach,
California [May, 1924]. Rare and meaty pamphlet.

HOLDEN, W. C. _Rollie Burns_, Dallas, 1932. Biography of a
Plains cowman. OP. _The Spur Ranch_, Boston, 1934. History of
a great Texas ranch. OP.

HORN, TOM. _Life of Tom Horn . . . Written by Himself,
together with His Letters and Statements by His Friends, A
Vindication_. Published (for John C. Coble) by the Louthan
Book Company, Denver, 1904. Who wrote the book has been
somewhat in debate. John C. Coble's name is signed to the
preface attributing full authorship to Horn. Of Pennsylvania
background, wealthy and educated, he had employed Horn as a
stock detective on his Wyoming ranch. He had the means and
ability to see the book through the press. A letter from his
wife to me, from Cheyenne, June 21,1926, says that Horn wrote
the book. Charles H. Coe, who succeeded Horn as stock
detective in Wyoming, says in _Juggling a Rope_ (Pendleton,
Oregon, 1927, P. 108), that Horn wrote it. I have a copy,
bought from Fred Rosenstock of the Bargain Book Store in
Denver, who got it from Hattie Horner Louthan, of Denver also.
For years she taught English in the University of Denver,
College of Commerce, and is the author of more than one
textbook. The Louthan Book Company of Denver was owned by her
family. This copy of _Tom Horn_ contains her bookplate. On top
of the first page of the preface is written in pencil: "I
wrote this--`Ghost wrote.' H. H. L." Then, penciled at the top
of the first page of "Closing Word," is "I wrote this."

Glendolene Myrtle Kimmell was a schoolteacher in the country
where Tom Horn operated. As her picture shows, she was lush
and beautiful. Pages 287-309 print "Miss Kimmell's Statement."
She did her best to keep Tom Horn from hanging. She frankly
admired him and, it seems to me, loved him. Jay Monaghan, _The
Legend of Tom Horn, Last of the Bad Men_, Indianapolis and New
York, 1946, says (p. 267), without discussion or proof, that
after Horn was hanged and buried Miss Kimmell was "writing a
long manuscript about a Sir Galahad horseman who was `crushed
between the grinding stones of two civilizations,' but she
never found a publisher who thought her book would sell. It
was entitled _The True Life of Tom Horn_."

The main debate has been over Horn himself. The books about
him are not highly important, but they contribute to a
spectacular and highly controversial phase of range history,
the so-called Johnson County War of Wyoming. Mercer's
_Banditti of the Plains_, Mokler's _History of Natrona County,
Wyoming_, Canton's _Frontier Trails_, and David's _Malcolm
Campbell, Sheriff_ (all listed in this chapter) are primary
sources on the subject.

HOUGH, EMERSON. _The Story of the Cowboy_, New York, 1897.
Exposition not nearly so good as Philip Ashton Rollins' _The
Cowboy. North of 36_, New York, 1923. Historical novel of the
Chisholm Trail. The best character in it is Old Alamo, lead
steer. A young woman owner of the herd trails with it. The
success of the romance caused Emerson Hough to advise his
friend Andy Adams to put a woman in a novel about trail
driving--so Andy Adams told me. Adams replied that a woman
with a trail herd would be as useless as a fifth wheel on a
wagon and that he would not violate reality by
having her. For a devastation of Hough's use of history in
_North of 36_ see the Appendix in Stuart Henry's _Conquering
Our Great American Plains_. Yet the novel does have the right
temper.

HOYT, HENRY F. _A Frontier Doctor_, Boston, 1929. Texas
Panhandle and New Mexico during Billy the Kid days.
Reminiscences.

HUNT, FRAZIER. _Cat Mossman: Last of the Great Cowmen_,
illustrated by Ross Santee, Hastings House, New York, 1951.
Few full-length biographies of big operators among cowmen have
been written. This reveals not only Cap Mossman's operations
on enormous ranges, but the man.

HUNTER, J. MARVIN (compiler). _The Trail Drivers of Texas_,
two volumes, Bandera, Texas, 1920, 1923. Reprinted in one
volume, 1925. All OP. George W. Saunders, founder of the Old
Time Trail Drivers Association and for many years president,
prevailed on hundreds of old-time range and trail men to write
autobiographic sketches. He used to refer to Volume II as the
"second edition"; just the same, he was not ignorant, and he
had a passion for the history of his people. The chronicles,
though chaotic in arrangement, comprise basic source material.
An index to the one-volume edition of _The Trail Drivers of
Texas_ is printed as an appendix to _The Chisholm Trail and
Other Routes_, by T. U. Taylor, San Antonio, 1936--a
hodgepodge.

JAMES, WILL. _Cowboys North and South_, New York, 1924. _The
Drifting Cowboy_, 1925. _Smoky_--a cowhorse story--1930.
Several other books, mostly repetitious. Will James knew his
frijoles, but burned them up before he died, in 1942. He
illustrated all his books. The best one is his first, written
before he became sophisticated with life--without becoming in
the right way more sophisticated in the arts of drawing and
writing. _Lone Cowboy: My Life Story_ (1930) is without a date
or a geographical location less generalized than the space
between Canada and Mexico.

JAMES, W. S. _Cowboy Life in Texas_, Chicago, 1893. A genuine
cowboy who became a genuine preacher and wrote a
book of validity. This is the best of several books of
reminiscences by cowboy preachers, some of whom are as lacking
in the real thing as certain cowboy artists. Next to _Cowboy
Life in Texas_, in its genre, might come _From the Plains to
the Pulpit_, by J. W. Anderson, Houston, 1907. The second
edition (reset) has six added chapters. The third, and final,
edition, Goose Creek, Texas, 1922, again reset, has another
added chapter. J. B. Cranfill was a trail driver from a rough
range before he became a Baptist preacher and publisher. His
bulky _Chronicle, A Story of Life in Texas_, 1916, is
downright and concrete.

KELEHER, WILLIAM A. _Maxwell Land Grant: A New Mexico Item_,
Santa Fe, 1942. The Maxwell grant of 1,714,764 acres on the
Cimarron River was at one time perhaps the most famous tract
of land in the West. This history brings in ranching only
incidentally; it focuses on the land business, including grabs
by Catron, Dorsey, and other affluent politicians. Perhaps
stronger on characters involved during long litigation over
the land, and containing more documentary evidence, is _The
Grant That Maxwell Bought_, by F. Stanley, The World Press,
Denver, 1952 (a folio of 256 pages in an edition of 250 copies
at $15.00). Keleher is a lawyer; Stanley is a priest. Harvey
Fergusson in his historical novel _Grant of Kingdom_, New
York, 1950, vividly supplements both. Keleher's second book,
_The Fabulous Frontier_, Rydal, Santa Fe, 1945, illuminates
connections between ranch lands and politicians; principally
it sketches the careers of A. B. Fall, John Chisum, Pat
Garrett, Oliver Lee, Jack Thorp, Gene Rhodes, and other New
Mexico notables.

KENT, WILLIAM. _Reminiscences of Outdoor Life_, San Francisco,
1929. OP. This is far from being a straight-out range book. It
is the easy talk of an urbane man associated with ranches and
ranch people who was equally at home in a Chicago office and
among fellow congressmen. He had a country-going nature and
gusto for character.

KING, FRANK M. _Wranglin' the Past_, Los Angeles, 1935. King
went all the way from Texas to California, listening and
looking. OP. His second book, _Longhorn Trail Drivers_ (1940),
is worthless. His _Pioneer Western Empire Builders_ (1946) and
_Mavericks_ (1947) are no better. Most of the contents of
these books appeared in _Western Livestock Journal_, Los
Angeles.

KUPPER, WINIFRED. _The Golden Hoof_, New York, 1945. Story of
the sheep and sheep people of the Southwest. Facts, but, above
that, truth that comes only through imagination and sympathy.
OP. _Texas Sheepman_, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1951.
The edited reminiscences of Robert Maudslay. He drove sheep
all over the West, and lived up to the ideals of an honest
Englishman in writing as well as in ranching. He had a sense
of humor.

LAMPMAN, CLINTON PARKS. _The Great Western Trail_, New York,
1939. OP. In the upper bracket of autobiographic chronicles,
by a sensitive man who never had the provincial point of view.
Lampman contemplated as well as observed He felt the pathos of
human destiny.

LANG, LINCOLN A. _Ranching with Roosevelt_, Philadelphia,
1926. Civilized. OP.

LEWIS, ALFRED HENRY. _Wolfville_ (1897) and other Wolfville
books. All OP. Sketches and rambling stories faithful to
cattle backgrounds; flavor and humanity through fictionized
anecdote. "The Old Cattleman," who tells all the Wolfville
stories, is a substantial and flavorsome creation.

LOCKWOOD, FRANK C. _Arizona Characters_, Los Angeles, 1928.
Skilfully written biographies. OP.

MCCARTY, JOHN L. _Maverick Town_, University of Oklahoma
Press, 1946. Tascosa, Texas, on the Canadian River, with
emphasis on the guns.

MCCAULEY, JAMES EMMIT. _A Stove-up Cowboy's Story_, with
Introduction by John A. Lomas and Illustrations by Tom Lea,
Austin, 1943. OP. "My parents be poor like Job's turkey,"
McCauley wrote. He was a common cowhand with uncommon
saltiness of speech. He wrote as he talked. "God pity the
wight for whom this vivid, honest story has no interest," John
Lomax pronounced. It is one of several brief books
of reminiscences brought out in small editions in the "Range
Life Series," under the editorship of J. Frank Dobie, by the
Texas Folklore Society. The two others worth having are _A
Tenderfoot Kid on Gyp Water_, by Carl Peters Benedict (1943)
and _Ed Nichols Rode a Horse_, as told to Ruby Nichols
Cutbirth (1943).

MCCOY, JOSEPH G. _Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the
West and Southwest_, Kansas City, 1874. In 1867, McCoy
established at Abilene, Kansas, terminus of the Chisholm
Trail, the first market upon which Texas drovers could depend.
He went broke and thereupon put his sense, information, and
vinegar into the first of all range histories. It is a
landmark. Of the several reprinted editions, the one preferred
is that edited by Ralph P. Bieber, with an information-packed
introduction and many illuminating notes, Glendale,
California, 1940. This is Volume VIII in the "Southwest
Historical Series," edited by Bieber, and the index to it is
included in the general index to the whole series. Available
is an edition published by Long's College Book Co., Columbus,
Ohio. About the best of original sources on McCoy is _Twenty
Years of Kansas City's Live Stock and Traders_, by Cuthbert
Powell, Kansas City, 1893--one of the rarities.

MACKAY, MALCOLM S. _Cow Range and Hunting Trail_, New York,
1925. Among the best of civilized range books. Fresh
observations and something besides ordinary narrative. OP.
Illustrations by Russell.

MANDAT-GRANCEY, BARON E. DE. See Conn, William.

MERCER, A. S. _Banditti of the Plains, or The Cattlemen's
Invasion of Wyoming in 1892_, Cheyenne, 1894; reprinted at
Chicago in 1923 under title of _Powder River Invasion, War on
the Rustlers in 1892_, "Rewritten by John Mercer Boots."
Reprinted 1935, with Foreword by James Mitchell Clarke, by the
Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. All editions OP. Bloody
troubles between cowmen and nesters in Wyoming, the "Johnson
County War." For more literature on the subject, consult the
entry under Tom Horn in this chapter.

MILLER, LEWIS B. _Saddles and Lariats_, Boston, 1912. A
fictional chronicle, based almost entirely on facts, of a
trail herd that tried to get to California in the fifties. The
author was a Texan. OP.

MOKLER, ALFRED JAMES. _History of Natrona County, Wyoming,
1888-1922_, Chicago, 1923. Contains some good material on the
"Johnson County War." This book is listed as an illustration
of many county histories of western states containing concrete
information on ranching. Other examples of such county
histories are S. D. Butcher's _Pioneer History of Custer
County_ (Nebraska), Broken Bow, Nebraska, 1901; _History of
Jack County_ (Texas), Jacksboro, Texas (about 1935);
_Historical Sketch of Parker County and Weatherford, Texas_,
St. Louis, 1877.

MORA, JO. _Trail Dust and Saddle Leather_, Scribner's, New
York, 1946. No better exposition anywhere, and here tellingly
illustrated, of reatas, spurs, bits, saddles, and other gear.
_Californios_, Doubleday, Garden City, N. Y., 1949. Profusely
illustrated. Largely on vaquero techniques. Jo Mora knew the
California vaquero, but did not know the range history of
other regions and, therefore, judged as unique what was
widespread.

NIMMO, JOSEPH, JR. _The Range and Ranch Cattle Traffic in the
Western States and Territories_, Executive Document No. 267,
House of Representatives, 48th Congress, 2nd Session,
Washington, D. C., 1885. Printed also in one or more other
government documents. A statistical record concerning grazing
lands, trail driving, railroad shipping of cattle, markets,
foreign investments in ranches, etc. This document is the
outstanding example of factual material to be found in various
government publications, Volume III of the _Tenth Census of
the United States_ (1880) being another. _The Western Range:
Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture_, etc (a "letter" 620
pages long), United States Government Printing Office,
Washington, 1936, lists many government publications both
state and national.

NORDYKE, LEWIS. _Cattle Empire_, Morrow, New York, 1949.
History, largely political, of the XIT Ranch. Not so careful
in documentation as Haley's _XIT Ranch of Texas_, and not so
detailed on ranch operations, but thoroughly illuminative on
the not-heroic side of big businessmen in big land deals. The
two histories complement each other.

O'NEIL, JAMES B. _They Die But Once_, New York, 1935. The
biographical narrative of a Tejano who vigorously swings a
very big loop; fine illustration of the fact that a man can
lie authentically. OP.

OSGOOD, E. S. _The Day of the Cattleman_, Minneapolis, 1929.
Excellent history and excellent bibliography. Northwest. OP.

PEAKE, ORA BROOKS. _The Colorado Range Cattle Industry_,
Clark, Glendale, California, 1937. Dry on facts, but sound in
scholarship. Bibliography.

PELZER, LOUIS. _The Cattlemen's Frontier_, Clark, Glendale,
California, 1936. Economic treatment, faithful but static.
Bibliography.

PENDER, ROSE. A _Lady's Experiences in the Wild West in 1883_,
London (1883?); second printing with a new preface, 1888. Rose
Pender and two fellow-Englishmen went through Wyoming ranch
country, stopping on ranches, and she, a very intelligent,
spirited woman, saw realities that few other chroniclers
suggest. This is a valuable bit of social history.

PERKINS, CHARLES E. _The Pinto Horse_, Santa Barbara,
California, 1927. _The Phantom Bull_, Boston, 1932. Fictional
narratives of veracity; literature. OP.

PILGRIM, THOMAS (under pseudonym of Arthur Morecamp). _Live
Boys; or Charley and Nasho in Texas_, Boston, 1878. The
chronicle, little fictionized, of a trail drive to Kansas. So
far as I know, this is the first narrative printed on cattle
trailing or cowboy life that is to be accounted authentic. The
book is dated from Kerrville, Texas.

PONTING, TOM CANDY. _The Life of Tom Candy Ponting_, Decatur,
Illinois [1907], reprinted, with Notes and Introduction by
Herbert O. Brayer, by Branding Iron Press,
Evanston, Illinois, 1952. An account of buying cattle in Texas
in 1853, driving them to Illinois, and later shipping some to
New York. Accounts of trail driving before about 1870 have
been few and obscurely printed. The stark diary kept by George
C. Duffield of a drive from San Saba County, Texas, to
southern Iowa in 1866 is as realistic--often agonizing--as
anything extant on this much romanticized subject. It is
published in _Annals of Iowa_, Des Moines, IV (April, 1924),
243-62.

POTTER, JACK. Born in 1864, son of the noted fighting parson,"
Andrew Jackson Potter, Jack became a far-known trail boss and
ranch manager. His first published piece, "Coming Down the
Trail," appeared in _The Trail Drivers of Texas_, compiled by
J. Marvin Hunter, and is about the livest thing in that
monumental collection. Jack Potter wrote for various Western
magazines and newspapers. He was more interested in cow nature
than in gun fights; he had humor and imagination as well as
mastery of facts and a tangy language, though small command
over form. His privately printed booklets are: _Lead Steer_
(with Introduction by J. Frank Dobie), Clayton, N. M., 1939;
_Cattle Trails of the Old West_ (with map), Clayton, N.M.,
1935; _Cattle Trails of the Old West_ (virtually a new
booklet), Clayton, N. M., 1939. All OP.

_Prose and Poetry of the Live Stock Industry of the United
States_, Denver, 1905. Biographies of big cowmen and history
based on genuine research. The richest in matter of all the
hundred-dollar-and-up rare books in its field.

RAINE, WILLIAM MCLEOD, and BARNES, WILL C. _Cattle_, Garden
City, N. Y., 1930. A succinct and vivid focusing of much
scattered history. OP.

RAK, MARY KIDDER. _A Cowman s Wife_, Houghton Mifflin, Boston,
1934. Unglossed, impersonal realism about life on a small
modern Arizona ranch. _Mountain Cattle_, 1936, and OP, is an
extension of the first book.

REMINGTON, FREDERIC. _Pony Tracks_, New York, 1895 (now
published by Long's College Book Co., Columbus,
Ohio); _Crooked Trails_, New York, 1898. Sketches and
pictures.

RHODES, EUGENE MANLOVE. _West Is West, Once in the Saddle,
Good Men and True, Stepsons of Light_, and other novels.
"Gene" Rhodes had the "right tune." He achieved a style that
can be called literary. _The Hired Man on Horseback_, by May
D. Rhodes, is a biography of the writer. Perhaps "Paso Por
Aqui" will endure as his masterpiece. Rhodes had an intense
loyalty to his land and people; he was as gay, gallant, and
witty as he was earnest. More than most Western writers,
Rhodes was conscious of art. He had the common touch and also
he was a writer for writing men. The elements of simplicity
and the right kind of sophistication, always with generosity
and with an unflagging zeal for the rights of human beings,
were mixed in him. The reach of any ample-natured man exceeds
his grasp. Rhodes was ample-natured, but he cannot be classed
as great because his grasp was too often disproportionately
short of the long reach. His fiction becomes increasingly
dated.

_The Best Novels and, Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes_,
edited by Frank V. Dearing, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1949,
contains an introduction, with plenty of anecdotes and too
much enthusiasm, by J. Frank Dobie.

RICHARDS, CLARICE E. A _Tenderfoot Bride_, Garden City, N. Y.,
1920. The experiences of a ranchman's wife in Colorado. The
telling has charm, warmth, and flexibility. In the way that
art is always truer than a literal report, _A Tenderfoot
Bride_ brings out truths of life that the literalistic _A
Cowman's Wife_ by Mary Kidder Rak misses.

RICHTER, CONRAD. _The Sea of Grass_, Knopf, New York, 1937. A
poetic portrait in fiction, with psychological values, of a
big cowman and his wife.

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