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LZ Cowboy : A Cowboy's Journal, 1979-1981 Western Life Series ; 3
author
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Erickson, John R.
publisher
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University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin
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1574410245
print isbn13
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9781574410242
ebook isbn13
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9780585269764
language
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English
subject
Erickson, John R.,--1943---Diaries, Cowboys--Texas--Texas Panhandle--Autobiography--Diaries, Texas Panhandle (Tex.)--Social life and customs.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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F392.P168E75 1997eb
ddc
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976.4/8063/092
subject
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Erickson, John R.,--1943---Diaries, Cowboys--Texas--Texas Panhandle--Autobiography--Diaries, Texas Panhandle (Tex.)--Social life and customs.
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LZ Cowboy
A Cowboy's Journal 19791981
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Other books in the Western Life Series:
Number One: Catch Rope The Long Arm of the Cowboy, by John R. Erickson
Number Two: Through Time and the Valley, by John R. Erickson
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LZ Cowboy
A Cowboy's Journal 19791981
By John R. Erickson
Photographs By Kris Erickson
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1996 by John R. Erickson
All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition 1997
5 4 3 2 1
Permissions University of North Texas Press P.O. Box 13856 Denton, Texas 76203-6856
The paper in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984.
Number Three: Western Life Series
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Erickson, John R., 1943 LZ cowboy: a cowboy's journal, 19791981 / by John R. Erickson; photographs by Kris Erickson. p.cm. (Western life series; 3) Includes index. ISBN 1-57441-024-5 (alk. paper) 1. Erickson, John R., 1943 Diaries. 2. Cowboys Texas Texas Panhandle Diaries. 3. Texas Panhandle (Tex.) Social life and customs. I. Title. II. Series. F392.P168E75 1997 976.4'8063'092 dc21 [B] 96-40038 CIP
In the summer of 1979 I learned that Lawrence Ellzey was looking for a ranch hand. Lawrence and his son Tom had a cow/calf and yearling operation headquartered on Wolf Creek, some twenty-five miles southeast of Perryton, Texas, and I was interested in the job.
I had spent the past year and a half working one of the Barby ranches in Beaver County, Oklahoma. My time on the Beaver River had been very productive. Not only had I gotten a thorough education in the cowboy profession, but I had also managed to write Panhandle Cowboy, The Modern Cowboy, Alkali County Tales, and a number of articles in my small office in John Little's barn.
The move to Perryton and to the LZ Ranch appealed to me for several reasons. I wanted to be closer to my father who lived in Perryton. Also, though Perryton was hardly at the crossroads of the world, it was two hours closer to a major airport than our trailer house on the Beaver River. By 1979 my desire to become a professional writer required that
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I make occasional trips out into the modern world, and access to the airport was important.
And then there was the appeal of working with the Ellzey family. I had known these people all my life. Some of my earliest memories included Lawrence playing the guitar and singing cowboy songs with his magnificent baritone voice; riding horses at the ranch; playing childhood games with the Ellzey boys; and Sunday lunch get-togethers at one family's house or the other.
In high school I played football and sang in the choir with John and Tom. At the University of Texas I shared a house with John and Lawrence, Jr., and sang in the UT a cappella choir with Tom and John. In the early 1970s, when Tom, John, and I ended up back in Perryton and started our own families, I worked cattle with the Ellzeys on my days off. Kris and I sang in Lawrence's choir at the First United Methodist Church, and then sang in the community's annual presentation of Handel's Messiah, which Lawrence started in the early 1950s and directed for some thirty years.
After Kris and I moved to the Crown Ranch in Beaver County in 1974, we continued to maintain our ties with the Ellzeys. We seldom missed the big Fourth of July picnic at the ranch, an annual affair begun by Lawrence's father, Thomas Virgil Ellzey, back in 1939. While I was managing the Crown Ranch (197478), I swapped out ranch work with John and Tom. I rode in their roundups and they came to mine. They always came well mounted and they always made good hands.
There were many qualities I admired in the Ellzey family, but the one which bound us most closely together was
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our love of ranch life, in all its forms and expressions: the beauty of a sunset on Wolf Creek; the changes in the weather; pride in horses and horsemanship; an endless curiosity about the land and the peculiar habits of animals; and most of all, the work.
Ranching is a hard life and a tough business, and anyone who doesn't have an appetite for hard work won't last long. The Ellzeys worked hard all of them: men and women, young and old, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, grandparents and grandchildren, uncles and aunts and cousins. They took pride in their work and they found ways of enjoying it. Work was what they did most and best, and I liked that.
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