The autonomous tales in this collection are linked by a set of recurring characters and the common backdrop of New Mexico and the American West

The Summerfield Stories

Literature & Fiction

Ferguson, J. M.

United States

TCU Press

Warning: Writer at Work: The Best Collectibles of Larry L. King

King, Larry L.

History & Criticism

From Rattlesnakes to Road Agents: Rough Times on the Frio (Chisholm Trail Series) (Volume 3)

Biographies & Memoirs

Farris, Frances Bramlette

Historical

Roland Thaxter Bird, universally and affectionately known to friends and associates as R. T., achieved a kind of Horatio Alger success in the scientific world of dinosaur studies. Forced to drop out of school at a young age by ill health, he was a cowboy who traveled from job to job by motorcycle until he met Barnum Brown, Curator of Vertebrae Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and a leader in the study of dinosaurs. Beginning in 1934, Bird spent many years as an employee of the museum and as Brown's right-hand man in the field. His chart of the Howe Quarry in Wyoming, a massive sauropod boneyard, is one of the most complex paleontological charts ever produced and a work of art in its own right. His crowning achievement was the discovery, collection, and interpretation of gigantic Cretaceous dinosaur trackways along the Paluxy River near Glen Rose and at Bandera, Texas. A trackway from Glen Rose is on exhibit at the American Museum and at the Texas Memorial Museum in Austin. His interpretation of these trackways demonstrated that a large carnosaur had pursued and attacked a sauropod, that sauropods migrated in herds, and that, contrary to then-current belief, sauropods were able to support their own weight out of deep water. These behavioral interpretations anticipated later dinosaur studies by at least two decades. From his first meeting with Barnum Brown to his discoveries at Glen Rose and Bandera, this very human account tells the story of Bird's remarkable work on dinosaurs. In a vibrantly descriptive style, Bird recorded both the intensity and excitement of field work and the careful and painstaking detail of laboratory reconstruction. His memoir presents a vivid picture of camp life with Brown and the inner workings of the famous American Museum of Natural History, and it offers a new and humanizing account of Brown himself, one of the giants of his field. Bird's memoir has been supplemented with a clear and concise introduction to the field of dinosaur study and with generous illustrations which delineate the various types of dinosaurs.

Bones for Barnum Brown: Adventures of a Dinosaur Hunter

Bird, Roland T.

Professionals & Academics

The Trail to Ogallala (Texas Tradition Series)

The Trail to Ogallala (Texas Tradition Series) (Volume 3)

CAPPS, BENJAMIN

Genre Fiction

Benjamin Capps

North to Yesterday (Texas Tradition Series) (Volume 4)

Flynn, Robert

Contemporary

By the late Texas writer, Larry L. King, author of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and other works. King was also one of the great writers Willie Morris added to the Harper's Magazine group in the late 1960s. With a foreword by Edwin Shrake. Drawings by Paul Rigby.

This thoroughly researched and superbly written book combines history, myth, folklore, and fiction to tell the story not only of the buffalo but of the relationship between buffalo and man on the North American continent. Synthesizing larger and longer histories of this unique animal, this book traces the history of the buffalo from the time it led man to North America, fed him, clothed him, and housed him. As buffalo increased in numbers, they became central to the culture of the Great Plains Indians who lived surrounded by them. Much of the Indian way of life was related to knowledge of and reverence for the buffalo. When the European white man arrived, he lived off the buffalo as he explored the continent. Later, he slaughtered the great herds of animals when they trampled his crops, stopped his railway trains, and fed the Indians who fought him for the land. But when extinction threatened the buffalo, the white man was challenged by the idea of saving the animal, an idea that captures the imagination of Americans yet today. Heads, Hides &amp; Horns traces this major history in a thousand small stories, with directions for tanning, recipes for cooking, stories of tenderfeet and hide hunters, Metis from Canada who searched for bones, ciboleros from Mexico who hunted buffalo in Texas, and hundreds of anecdotes and first-person accounts. Over one hundred illustrations accompany the lively text. The pictorial research behind this book is as thorough as the textual study, and the illustrations include works by major artists of the period - Karl Bodmer and Frederic Remington, for example - along with actual period photographs. Combining the best of art and history told in an anecdotal and readable manner, Heads, Hides &amp; Horns offers fascinating reading for anyone interested in the American West, its culture, traditions, and ecology.

Heads, Hides and Horns: The Complete Buffalo Book

History

Barsness, Larry

Americas

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