J. Frank Dobie
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The twilight of the longhorn has fallen. The noble breed is nearer extinction than the buffalo ever was. Yet in this rousing chronicle the great days of the longhorn live again, a brave and surging part of our national heritage.
James Frank Dobie (September 26, 1888 - September 18, 1964) was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days...
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J. Frank Dobie's stories of memorable characters from Texas history.
287 pages, frontis, illustrations. Trail drives, outlaws, Bigfoot Wallace, buffalo, Indian fights, etc. Herd 691, Six-Guns 602 "Has some information on Clay Allison and other gunmen." Trail drives, outlaws, Bigfoot Wallace, buffalo, Indian fights, cowboys, Texas, ranching, Gunmen.
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Contains sixteen character sketches of interesting personalities known by Dobie.
J. Frank Dobie liked to write about genuine, independent, unpretentious people, specialists of one kind or another, whether that specialty was teaching or horseshoeing--people who were, above all, interesting. There are sixteen such personalities in Out of the Old Rock.
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The author took a trip, 2000 miles on horseback, across Northern Mexico with the characters being inventions, patched from realities. He invented a slight string of experiences on which to thread tales and people. Dobie's Mexico is of the hot, dry brush country of the Montes, the western footwhills of the Sierra Madre Orientale. Dobie brings his characters together to eat, drink, or take a siesta; and they tell sotires or discuss their beliefs, customs,...
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A relaxed, satisfying memoir by a master storyteller. It reveals the admirable human spirit of a man who has become as much a legend as those about whom he wrote.
When Frank Dobie died in September of 1964 he left, along with a wealth of Southwestern folklore (among them the classics Coronado's Children, The Mustangs and Cow People), a collection of autobiographical pieces which he hoped, some day, to turn into a full-length autobiography. Now, three...
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"Tales (both fact and fable) told about a master hunter of the Rockies who in his prime was 'chief huntsman' to Theodore Roosevelt."
Ben Lilly was the greatest bear hunter in history after Davy Crockett, by his own account and also by the record. Folklorist Dobie met Lilly some twenty years before writing this book, and was so struck by this extraordinary man that he began collecting everything he could find about him. Lilly was born in Alabama in...