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Voices from the Wild Horse Desert: The Vaquero Families of the King and Kenedy Ranches Paperback - 1997
by Monday, Jane Clements/ Colley, Betty Bailey
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- Title Voices from the Wild Horse Desert: The Vaquero Families of the King and Kenedy Ranches
- Author Monday, Jane Clements/ Colley, Betty Bailey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 303
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Univ of Texas Pr, Austin, Texas
- Date 1997
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0292752059
- ISBN 9780292752054 / 0292752059
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.09 x 0.78 in (23.50 x 15.47 x 1.98 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mexican American cowboys - Texas, South -, Mexican American families - Texas, South -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-45639
- Dewey Decimal Code 976.4
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In this book, Jane Clements Monday and Betty Bailey Colley bring together the voices of men and women who make ranching possible in the Wild Horse Desert. From 1989 to 1995, the authors interviewed more than sixty members of vaquero families, ranging in age from 20 to 93. Taken together, their words provide a panoramic view of ranch work and life that spans most of the twentieth century. The vaqueros and their families describe all aspects of life on the ranches, from working cattle and doing many kinds of ranch maintenance to the home chores of raising children, cooking, and cleaning. The elders recall a life of endless manual labor that nonetheless afforded the satisfaction of jobs done with skill and pride. The younger people describe how modernization has affected the ranches - from the use of helicopters at roundup to computers that track data on cattle - and how it has changed the lifeways of the people who work there.