Author: J. W. Williams
Publisher: Double Mountain Books
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A Double Mountain Books classic reissue, this storybook travelogue covers the big ranches of West and South Texas. Williams made many informal excursions to study their history, founders, and owners, picking up facts, folklore, and range gossip along the way. He documents the fifteen largest ranches in Texas and the ways they adapted to changing conditions in the ranching industry. Photographs and maps illustrate the text. Though it never received wide circulation following its publication in 1954, The Big Ranch Country has been recognized as a standard work by ranch historians. J. W. Williams wrote often in books and newspapers about West Texas, and his work is still cited by authors and scholars.
The Big Ranch Country
Author: J. W. Williams
Publisher: Double Mountain Books
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A Double Mountain Books classic reissue, this storybook travelogue covers the big ranches of West and South Texas. Williams made many informal excursions to study their history, founders, and owners, picking up facts, folklore, and range gossip along the way. He documents the fifteen largest ranches in Texas and the ways they adapted to changing conditions in the ranching industry. Photographs and maps illustrate the text. Though it never received wide circulation following its publication in 1954, The Big Ranch Country has been recognized as a standard work by ranch historians. J. W. Williams wrote often in books and newspapers about West Texas, and his work is still cited by authors and scholars.
Publisher: Double Mountain Books
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A Double Mountain Books classic reissue, this storybook travelogue covers the big ranches of West and South Texas. Williams made many informal excursions to study their history, founders, and owners, picking up facts, folklore, and range gossip along the way. He documents the fifteen largest ranches in Texas and the ways they adapted to changing conditions in the ranching industry. Photographs and maps illustrate the text. Though it never received wide circulation following its publication in 1954, The Big Ranch Country has been recognized as a standard work by ranch historians. J. W. Williams wrote often in books and newspapers about West Texas, and his work is still cited by authors and scholars.
Beating the Odds in a Big Country
Author: Robert Lehane
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643102434
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The implementation of the Brucellosis and Tuberculosis Eradication Campaign has been one of the most significant animal health achievements in the history of Australia and worldwide. The unprecedented technical and operational complexity of the campaign presented an enormous challenge to cattle producers, veterinarians, research scientists, field staff and administrators over the 25 years of the project. Beating the Odds in a Big Country captures the dynamism of the campaign and records the very real contribution in cash and kind made by the many producers whose herds were subject to eradication programs.
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643102434
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The implementation of the Brucellosis and Tuberculosis Eradication Campaign has been one of the most significant animal health achievements in the history of Australia and worldwide. The unprecedented technical and operational complexity of the campaign presented an enormous challenge to cattle producers, veterinarians, research scientists, field staff and administrators over the 25 years of the project. Beating the Odds in a Big Country captures the dynamism of the campaign and records the very real contribution in cash and kind made by the many producers whose herds were subject to eradication programs.
Racing in the Street
Author: June Skinner Sawyers
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142003541
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
For more than three decades, Bruce Springsteen’s ability to express in words and music the deepest hopes, fears, loves, and sorrows of average Americans has made him a hero to his millions of devoted fans. Racing in the Street is the first comprehensive collection of writings about Springsteen, featuring the most insightful, revealing, famous, and infamous articles, interviews, reviews, and other writings. This nostalgic journey through the career of a rock-’n’-roll legend chronicles every album and each stage of Springsteen’s career. It’s all here—Dave Marsh’s Rolling Stone review of Springsteen’s ten sold-out Bottom Line shows in 1975 in New York City, Jay Cocks’s and Maureen Orth’s dueling Time and Newsweek cover stories, George Will’s gross misinterpretation of Springsteen’s message on his Born in the USA tour, and Will Percy’s 1999 interview for Double Take, plus much, much more.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142003541
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
For more than three decades, Bruce Springsteen’s ability to express in words and music the deepest hopes, fears, loves, and sorrows of average Americans has made him a hero to his millions of devoted fans. Racing in the Street is the first comprehensive collection of writings about Springsteen, featuring the most insightful, revealing, famous, and infamous articles, interviews, reviews, and other writings. This nostalgic journey through the career of a rock-’n’-roll legend chronicles every album and each stage of Springsteen’s career. It’s all here—Dave Marsh’s Rolling Stone review of Springsteen’s ten sold-out Bottom Line shows in 1975 in New York City, Jay Cocks’s and Maureen Orth’s dueling Time and Newsweek cover stories, George Will’s gross misinterpretation of Springsteen’s message on his Born in the USA tour, and Will Percy’s 1999 interview for Double Take, plus much, much more.
Springsteen on Springsteen
Author: Jeff Burger
Publisher:
ISBN: 161374434X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
An extensive collection of Springsteen's spoken words over the past 40 years. It includes interviews, speeches, and features.
Publisher:
ISBN: 161374434X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
An extensive collection of Springsteen's spoken words over the past 40 years. It includes interviews, speeches, and features.
Country Life
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The Country Gentleman
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
A journal for the farm, the garden, and the fireside, devoted to improvement in agriculture, horticulture, and rural taste; to elevation in mental, moral, and social character, and the spread of useful knowledge and current news.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
A journal for the farm, the garden, and the fireside, devoted to improvement in agriculture, horticulture, and rural taste; to elevation in mental, moral, and social character, and the spread of useful knowledge and current news.
Forest and Stream
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Country, Kin and Culture
Author: Claire Smith
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 9781862545755
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Outlines how one Aboriginal community drew upon their sense of country, kin and culture to survive the incursions of British colonisation. It outlines their histories from before contact to the present, through protectionism and assimilation, to self- determination and reconciliation.
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 9781862545755
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Outlines how one Aboriginal community drew upon their sense of country, kin and culture to survive the incursions of British colonisation. It outlines their histories from before contact to the present, through protectionism and assimilation, to self- determination and reconciliation.
Black Cowboys Of Texas
Author: Sara R. Massey
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585444434
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Offers twenty-four essays about African American men and women who worked in the Texas cattle industry from the slave days of the mid-19th century through the early 20th century.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585444434
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Offers twenty-four essays about African American men and women who worked in the Texas cattle industry from the slave days of the mid-19th century through the early 20th century.
Country Gentleman
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description