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Author : Gary Cartwright
Release : 2004
Genre : Ranches
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Book Synopsis Showdown at Waggoner Ranch by : Gary Cartwright
Download or read book Showdown at Waggoner Ranch written by Gary Cartwright. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wyman Meinzer
Release : 2010-11-08
Genre : Ranch life
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Book Synopsis Under One Fence by : Wyman Meinzer
Download or read book Under One Fence written by Wyman Meinzer. This book was released on 2010-11-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thin morning fog, hanging over the sage and bluestem, obscures the trucks and trailers around the pens at Peek Trap. The sun, edging above the horizon, draws the eye from modernity toward something more durable. A whinny in the distance sharpens your focus on a band of shadow cast by a low bluff. The first few horses run into the new light, and the rest of the remuda emerges, strung out along the base of the bluff, nine dozen geldings running parallel to the horizon a quarter mile out. Another day begins. A day that has endured over a century in character. Welcome to the Waggoner Ranch.
Author : Paul Lederer
Release : 2014-12-30
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Showdown at Guyamas by : Paul Lederer
Download or read book Showdown at Guyamas written by Paul Lederer. This book was released on 2014-12-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thrilling first installment in this genre-busting series, Spectros journeys to Mexican mining country to confront the conjurer who kidnapped his bride A narrow carriage rumbles through the treacherous mountains of Sonora. Inside, surrounded by countless books and pieces of scientific equipment, rides Dr. Spectros—the most brilliant magician of the Old West. For years, he has pursued the fiendish sorcerer Blackschuster, who long ago stole the only woman the doctor ever loved. Spectros has now chased his nemesis to Mexico, where he discovers a town just as rotten as the conjurer who hides there. Blackschuster has come in search of the silver he requires to keep the bride of Spectros trapped in eternal sleep. With the help of his associates, the gunslinger Ray Featherskill, the knife expert Inkada, and the hulking bruiser Montak, Spectros corners his enemy, but defeating him will take a magic more powerful than any the world has ever seen.
Author : Knox Kinard
Release : 1941
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Book Synopsis A History of the Waggoner Ranch by : Knox Kinard
Download or read book A History of the Waggoner Ranch written by Knox Kinard. This book was released on 1941. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judy Alter
Release : 2021-10-21
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Most Land, the Best Cattle by : Judy Alter
Download or read book The Most Land, the Best Cattle written by Judy Alter. This book was released on 2021-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th century, Daniel Waggoner and his son, W.T. (Tom), put together an empire in North Texas that became the largest ranch under one fence in the nation. The 520,000-plus acres or 800 square miles covers six counties and sits on a large oil field in the Red River Valley of North Texas. Over the years, the estate also owned five banks, three cottonseed oil mills, and a coal company. While the Waggoner men built the empire, their wives and daughters enjoyed the fruits of their labor. This dynasty’s love of the land was rivaled only by their love of money and celebrity, and the different family factions eventually clashed. Although Dan seems to have led a fairly low-profile life, W. T. moved to Fort Worth, became a bank director, built two office buildings, ran his cattle on the Big Pasture in Indian Territory (Oklahoma), hosted Teddy Roosevelt at a wolf hunt in the Big Pasture, and sent Quanah Parker to Washington, D.C., for Roosevelt’s inauguration. W. T. had two sons, Guy and E. Paul, and a daughter named Electra, the light of his life. W. T. built a mansion in Fort Worth for her—today the house, the last surviving cattle baron mansion on Fort Worth’s Silk Stocking Row, is open to the public for tours and events. Electra, an international celebrity and extravagant shopper (she once spent $10,000 in one day at Neiman Marcus), died at the age of forty-three. Guy had nine wives; his brother E. Paul, partier and horse breeder, was married to the same woman for fifty years and had one daughter, Electra II. Electra II was a both a celebrity and a talented sculptor, best known for a heroic-size statue of Will Rogers on his horse, Soapsuds, as well as busts of two presidents and various movie stars. After marriage to an executive she settled in a mansion at the ranch and raised two daughters. This colorful history of one of Texas’s most influential ranching families demonstrates that it took strength and determination to survive in the ranching world…and the society it spawned.
