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Lucky 7: A Cowman's Autobiography

Lucky 7: A Cowman's Autobiography

Paperback

Biographies GeneralRegional: Southwest

ISBN10: 0292732945
ISBN13: 9780292732940
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Jan 1 1957
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

No. 7-as Carpenter, the youngest of seven children, called himself-was born in Missouri in 1854 and moved west with his family, first to Kansas, then to the settlements near Pikes Peak, and finally, in 1872, to Texas with his elder brother. From the time he made his first cattle drive, he wanted no other life but that of herding longhorns across the free and flat grasslands of the West. His schooling was the trail, the campfire, the saddle. In 1900, after a full and active life, he retired to his own ranch west of the Pecos. As the years passed, he sadly watched the fences go up and the free range disappear. Thus this book came to be written from the longing memory of a time-stranded cowman. He tells his story in the hard-punching, gritty language, direct humor, and attachment to bald fact and frank opinion that characterize the true Westerner.

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