The Unvarnished West Ranching As I Found It

Download or read book The Unvarnished West written by J. M. Pollock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Unvarnished West: Ranching as I Found It The notes from which this little book has been compiled were written in the first place only for the perusal of personal friends. By some of those kindly critics it was suggested that others outside that limited circle might be interested and amused by a record of experiences which fell to my lot while ranching in the Far West. Thus it comes to pass that I venture into print. Many of the incidents here set down have to do with hardships and bad weather. I hope that no reader will form an unfavourable opinion of Texas on that account. As a rule the climate of North-west Texas is one of the finest, brightest, and most exhilarating in the world. Hence it is with a sharp sense of contrast that one recalls the cruel pitiless "Northers" that occur several times almost every winter. When life goes smoothly under a smiling sun there is little to write about. It is the floods, blizzards, and storms that "make copy." I take this opportunity of acknowledging with thanks the courteous permission of the Editor of the "Wide World Magazine" to reprint an account of a stampede which appeared originally in that publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.