Hashknife Cowboy: Recollections of Mack Hughes

by Stella Hughes, Joe Beeler (Illustrator)

Overview

"Age and size ain't got nothin' to do with it," Mack's daddy once said. "You gotta want to be a cowboy." Mack Hughes wanted to be a cowboy, all right, and he was just twelve years old when he went to work for the famous Hashknife spread in northern Arizona. Growing up on the range, Mack lived a life about which modern boys can only wonder. He spins yarns of bad horses and the men who rode them, tells of wild dogs that ravaged young calves, and recalls lonely winter weeks spent at a remote camp-where his home was a shack so flimsy that snow blew through the cracks and covered his bed.

Stella Hughes, author of the best-selling Chuck Wagon Cookin' and a cowhand in her own right, has compiled from her husband's reminiscences an authentic look both at Arizona history and at cowboying as it really was. Illustrated by Joe Beeler, founding member of the Cowboy Artists of America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816533381
Publisher:	University of Arizona Press
Publication date:	11/01/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	7 MB

Table of Contents

Contents Introduction Map of Hashknife Country Leavin' Bear Flat Headin' for the Roundup Big Tank Spring Works Home on the Little Colorado Broken Bones Them Ol' Hashknife Horses Stampede Dry Lake Christmas at Sixteen Mile The Scab John Dallies Nevada Carl Cooties Wild Horses Wild Dogs New Boss Moonshine Lost Fingers Cowboy Terms Index

Editorial Reviews

Winner of the Western Writers of America's Spur Award

"A real chunk of the old west."—Western Horseman

"Episodes in the cowhand's day that you won't find noted in other sources."—Tombstone Epitaph

"Through these pages sparkles a joy of life and living that engrosses the reader and never palls."—Branding Iron

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