For Old Times Sake

Roswell, New Mexico: Hall-Poorbaugh Press Inc., 1980. First Edition . Hard Back. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4. Klinikowski, Gayle - Illustration. 142 Pages with last six pages black and white photographs. Signed with name only by the author on the title page. Dark red boards with silver lettering on the spine and gold lettering and decoration on the front board. Ever since Tom Brown, Sr., and I wrote the book Three Ranches West I have wanted to produce another book. This time, however, it was my intent to recall the not too long ago times, both good and bad and tell it like it was. Most everyone can recall the hard times of the twenties and thirties and those are the times I tried to picture in For Old Times Sake. Most of the stories are about family experiences- events that really happened to me or to my family. Some of the stories are of a humorous nature, while some are more serious. In any event it is my sincere desire that when you, my many friends over the Southwest, read For Old Times Sake, you will either laugh or cry, for that is what any good account of old times will do for one. If you are in search of something of high literary quality, you may be disappointed in For Old Times Sake. However, because it is plain spoken in simple Old West flavor, you might be able to say, that's just the way it was when I was growin up. Therefore, if you want reading which tells of real periences which your parents and mine had during the homestead days, depression years, and during flood and drought, I think you will not be disappointed when you read about the way it used to be in For Old Times Sake. In writing this collection of stories I was reminded many times of my own father and mother as they struggled to eke out a living, first, on our claim at Corona, later at the old Pat Garrett place East of Roswell, and still later as we moved up and down the Hondo Valley when my father cowboyed for George Clements, the Circle Diamond A, and others.