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Under the Texas Sun : Adventures of a Texas Cowpuncher Wardlaw Book
author
:
Dana, Anna Manns.
publisher
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Texas A&M University Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0890962847
print isbn13
:
9780890962848
ebook isbn13
:
9780585175058
language
:
English
subject
Vernon, Malcolm Graham,--1861-1936, Cowboys--Texas--Biography, Ranch life--Texas--History, Texas--Social life and customs.
publication date
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1986
lcc
:
F391.V47D36 1986eb
ddc
:
976.4/06/0924
subject
:
Vernon, Malcolm Graham,--1861-1936, Cowboys--Texas--Biography, Ranch life--Texas--History, Texas--Social life and customs.
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Under the Texas Sun
Adventures of a Texas Cowpuncher
Anna Manns Dana
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PRESS COLLEGE STATION
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Copyright 1986 by Anna Manns Dana All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First Edition
Chapter opening drawings are adapted, by permission of the artist, from the illustration for chapter 14 of The Wonderful Country, by Tom Lea.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dana, Anna Manns. Under the Texas sun. (A Wardlaw book) 1. Vernon, Malcolm Graham, 18611936. 2. Cowboys TexasBiography. 3. Ranch lifeTexasHistory. 4. TexasSocial life and customs. I. Title. II. Series. F391.V47D36 1987 976.4060924 [B] 86-14401 ISBN 0-89096-284-7
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CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Publisher's Acknowledgment
ix
Part One. The Family
1
1. Grandpa
3
2. Papa
10
3. Grapevine
12
4. The Posse
21
5. Toward Mexico
25
6. The Farm
34
7. Blanket, Texas
38
8. Arch Davis
41
9. Half Circle Six
44
Part Two. Young Man Riding with the Big Boys
47
10. The Army Contractor
49
11. "Lord" Vernon
52
12. Shootin' and Singin'
55
13. Stampedes
62
14. Drawing Straws
65
15. Colorful Language
68
16. The Nester
71
17. All Alone
77
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18. Revivals
80
19. The Big City
87
20. A Little Dogie
92
Epilogue
95
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PREFACE
My grandfather, Malcolm Graham Vernon, was a storyteller, and he must have been a spellbinder, for whenever any two members of his family or friends got together, at some point one would say, "Remember Papa's story about... ?" Only a few weeks before he died in 1936 did his children realize that these wonderful tales would be lost if they were not set down. The children would sit by his sickbed encouraging him to tell the stories of his youth and days as an early Texas cowboy, riding the range under the Texas sun. But his time to reminisce ran out, and not enough of his stories were preserved.
My mother kept family history records, letters written before and during the Civil War, and letters from her father to his mother written in the 1880s. My aunt saved the diaries my grandfather kept all his life; the earliest is a leather-bound one he carried on roundups and cattle drives. My uncle wrote down the stories he remembered of his father's life on the Half Circle Six Ranch; it was his intention to write this book. To me, the eldest grandchild, fell the lot to inherit the family records, the letters, the diaries, and my uncle's notesand the duty to record them.
I am grateful to my grandparents' three children, Rhea J. Vernon, Kate Vernon Manns, and Rose Vernon Johnson. Without my uncle's unfinished stories, rough drafts, and outlines,
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I could not have recalled the stories; had I not heard my mother and aunt retell the stories, I could not have understood his notes. I have three regrets: When I could have heard the stories firsthand, I was too young to be interested. I waited too long to write them down; all the people who could have helped recall them have died. I did not know my grandfather's exact words. Much of the fascination of any tale is in the telling, and he was the master storyteller.
The early family history was drawn from handwritten records, some made four generations back, and from The Garlington Family by T. K. Scogland. The names of the nonfamily characters are either the names recorded by my uncle or fictional. In writing the stories I admit to some fiction and frills, but not so much as to change the facts as they were given to me.
My brother, Malcolm Rhea Manns, and my cousin, Malcolm Vernon Balmer, are the family genealogists and have been of invaluable help. To them, the Malcolms of the last two generations, I dedicate this book.
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