I Bit the Silver Spoon

A narrative of a mans life in the southwest - what brought him there and how he came to love the land its peoples and its challenges. John Duncklees memoirs remind us that individualism personal courage and honesty can still thrive in America. Jim Woolard award winning author of Thunder in the Valley Winds of Autumn Blood at Dawn and Cold Moon In his fascinating memoir John Duncklee shows how an East Coast outcast became a cowboy rancher student wrangler teacher environmentalist lecturer furniture marker rebel reprobate and one of the original voices of contemporary Southwestern literature. Writers readers ranchers and working cowhands everywhere should all be grateful John Duncklee bit that silver spoon and lived to write about it. Johnny D. Boggs two-time Spur Award-winning author of Camp Ford and East of the Border I Bit the Silver Spoon in the authentic life-story of a died-in-the-wool cowpoke still writing and raising hell down New Mexico-way. John Duncklee is the last of a dying breed-a cowboy-adventurer out of the pages of Louis LAmour or Luke Short with a torch of the mad irascible poet added like whiskey to campfire coffee. How Big John came West and all he did out there amidst the sage and saguaros after growing up amongst Eastern wealth is riveting poetic inspiring bittersweet reading. Peter Brandold author of the Lou Prophet and Rogue Lawman novels published by Berkley