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Ranch life--Pecos River Region (N.M. and Tex.) , Cowboys--Pecos River Region (N.M. and Tex.)--History, Pecos River Region (N.M. and Tex.)--Biography.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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F392.P3D429 1997eb
ddc
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976.4/9/0088636
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Ranch life--Pecos River Region (N.M. and Tex.) , Cowboys--Pecos River Region (N.M. and Tex.)--History, Pecos River Region (N.M. and Tex.)--Biography.
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A Cowboy of the Pecos
Patrick Dearen
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dearen, Patrick. A cowboy of the Pecos / Patrick Dearen. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55622-528-8 (pb) 1. Ranch lifePecos River Region (N.M and Tex.) 2. Cowboys Pecos River Region (N.M. and Tex.)History. 3. Pecos River Region (N.M. and Tex.)Biography. I. Title. F392.P3D429 1996 976.4'9'0088636dc20 96-42236 CIP
Copyright 1997, Patrick Dearen
All Rights Reserved
Republic of Texas Press is an imprint of Wordware Publishing, Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from Wordware Publishing, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN 1-55622-528-8 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9610
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For my grandfather, Walter H. Sparkman (18771956), a cowboy
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Contents
The Cowboy's Paradise
1
The California Cattle Trail
13
The Goodnight-Loving Trail
29
The Pecos Trail Hand
53
Hoof and Arrow
69
Thundering Herds
85
Cattle Kings Come to the Pecos of Texas
107
The Open Range Cowboy of the Pecos
125
Loafers, Diamondbacks, and Wild Horses
157
The Big Drift
171
The Big Dry
185
The Pecos Comes Under Fence
201
The Big Thirst
225
Epilogue
243
Bibliography
247
Index
259
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"If in the old days a man said of another, 'He is a cowboy of the Pecos,' that might mean many things." J. Frank Dobie, A Vaquero of the Brush Country
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The Cowboy's Paradise
He rode hell-bent-for-leather along a Southwest river likened to hell and entered the myth of the West.
He was a cowboy of the Pecos.
With skills tailored to the river's unique demands and with character honed by a no-man's-land in which "pecos" also meant murder1 and "pecos swap," theft,2 he was a breed of cowhand unlike any other. F. S. Millard, a Pecos cowboy of the 1880s, recalled one cowhand reckoning that "the Pecos boys were the most expert cowboys in the world" and another one adding, "Yes, with the ex left off.''3
They were indeed maybe the "best damned cowboy[s]"4 who ever sat a horse, men who rode wild broncs by day and even wilder ones over a plate of beans by night. But no Pecos hand ever had need to brag of his skill in working cattle; either he rode out into a midnight storm muttering, "If I couldn't hold this damned herd alone, may I go to hell,"5 or he rolled up his bedroll and went home to mama.
It was a confidence that many would carry into the sunsets of their lives.
"If we could turn back fifty years now [from the 1950s]," reflected septuagenarian Julius D. Henderson, a Pecos hand of the late 1890s, "we could show those drugstore cowboys how it was done."6
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