Texas Cowboys

The stories these cowboys tell are exciting and lively. Reading the book is like meeting them face to face and sharing in the active lives they led. --Plano ProfileThe illustrations in this fascinating book are outstanding. The Lannings have given us a well-edited book that can be a greatly-appreciated gift. --The Pacific HistorianFor all the insights into the lives and attitudes of the cowboys however the greatest charm for many readers will be not in the tales but in the telling. . . . These men and women many of whom rarely if ever fidgeted at a school desk show a natural and comfortable sense of language its rhythms and infinite possibilities . . . these voices from the past are a delight to hear. --Southern Quarterly Vol. 24 no. 3If you are a fan of history and cowboys you may enjoy this collection. Crotchety cooks goosy broncs and spooky steers populate the pages and some of the adventures are so wild that you wonder just how in blazes these people lived to tell the tales. --The LariatAll in all I liked the book very much and so will others who have an enthusiasm for the Texas Range Cattle Industry and for those who served it in its heyday. --Colin RickardsAll of the accounts are more than readable; they are very interesting vignettes of trail drives and Indian scares rustlers and `stomps' or stampedes . . . The book is highly recommended as accurate Americana. --Old WestThis book is a contemporary selection of 33 interviews with old cowboys culled from a herd of 400 in the Texas Rangelore Collection of the Library of Congress . . . Crotchety cooks goosey broncs and spooky steers populate the pages and some of the adventures are so wild that you wonder just how the blazes these people lived to tell the tales. --Quarter Horse JournalThese oral histories from old Texas cowhands and ranch workers tell . . . what everyday life in Texas was all about. The stories are plainly told dignified and timeless. --Fort Worth Stockyards GazetteThis is primary source material of very high quality and fascinating reading. --Abilene Reporter-NewsWhether it's stage robberies breaking and catching wild stock or just daily ranch life . . . this book gives you a good sense of what life was like. --Quarter Horse Journal