Buffalo guns & barbed wire : two frontier accounts, a combined reissue of Pictures of the past and History that will never be repeated

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Buffalo guns & barbed wire : two frontier accounts, a combined reissue of Pictures of the past and History that will never be repeated

Title:

Buffalo guns & barbed wire : two frontier accounts, a combined reissue of Pictures of the past and History that will never be repeated

Author:

Biggers, Don Hampton, 1869-1957.

Publication Information:

Lubbock, TX, USA : Texas Tech University Press, c1991.

Format:

Books

Carrier Type:

xix, 241 p. : ill., map ; 20 x 27 cm.

Subject Term:

Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas.

Hunting -- Texas -- History -- 19th century.

American bison -- Texas -- History -- 19th century.

Cattle trade -- Texas -- History -- 19th century.

Ranch life -- Texas -- History -- 19th century.

American bison hunting -- Texas -- History -- 19th century.

Geographic Term:

Texas -- History -- 1846-1950.

Added Author:

Biggers, Don Hampton, 1869-1957. History that will never be repeated. 1991.

ISBN:

9780896722422

9780896722415

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Newspaperman Don Hampton Biggers witnessed the last years of the West Texas frontier and grew intrigued with the buffalo hunters, the early cattlemen, and the stories they told. As the twentieth century began, he was collecting and publishing the recollections of old-timers who had participated in making Texas history.This book combines two of Biggers's works, History That Will Never Be Repeated (1901) and Pictures of the Past (1902)--both rare and coveted by collectors of Texana.The two, republished in 1991 as a Book Club of Texas special edition and trade clothbound edition, are now available in paperback for the first time.

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