- Paperback: 232 pages
- Publisher: Texas A&M University Press (Jun 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0890969841
- ISBN-13: 978-0890969847
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 413 g
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4.3 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
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Great Book, Aug 30 2002
By Jason K. Terry - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cowhand: The Story of a Working Cowboy (Hardcover)
I really liked this book. It relates the true adventures of a cowhand in Texas in the 1920's and 30's. Gipson's writing style is delightful. The stories are simple and down-home, yet entertaining, making the old days seem like a hard, but neat time to live. I gave it four stars instead of five because I think a full rating should only go to a handful of absolute classics. This is a great book.
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Yee-haw . . ., Sep 26 2006
By Ronald Scheer "rockysquirrel" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cowhand : The Story of a Working Cowboy. (Hardcover)
This is an as-told-to profile of Texas cowhand Ed "Fat" Alford, related as a string of yarns you might hear told around the campfire or the bunkhouse at the end of a hard day's work. Fat was the oldest of a large family of siblings, never married, who gave his life to cowboying and whatever else in the way of work he could scrounge up during the 1920s and 1930s. Gipson has a gift for making these times and the men who lived them come to life with plenty of good humor, even though they were often struggling just to keep a buck in their jeans. At a young age, he's obliged to support his mother and her several children when his father dies in an outbreak of meningitis. While often entertaining, Fat's story does a lot to take the romance out of the profession and reveal how much plain, sweaty, dirty, exhausting hard work there is in being a "working cowboy."
5.0 out of 5 stars
The real deal about the American Cowboy, Jan 20 2012
By Gary D. Gale - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Cowhand : The Story of a Working Cowboy. (Hardcover)
This book is a hoot. The life story of a true American Cowboy should be required reading for every young person today. The work ethic back then was by far superior to that displayed by most kids today. Work Hard-Play Hard. The American way!
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