| Maverick Town: The Story of Old Tascosa Enl Edition Contributor(s): McCarty, John Lawton (Author), Bugbee, Harold D. (Illustrator), Sonnichsen, C. L. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0806120894 ISBN-13: 9780806120898 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $21.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1968 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 976.482 |
| LCCN: 87005946 |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 5.48" W x 8.5" (0.90 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Once the rival of Dodge City and Cheyenne, for years Tascosa, Texas, lay a ghost town of crumbling adobes. Today almost all traces of frontier Tascosa are gone, replaced by the ultramodern stone buildings which make up a self-contained city of boys and administrative staff--Cal Farley's famed Boys Ranch. Maverick Town tells the story of the rise and decline of Old Tascosa, which epitomized the romance and danger of the early West. Tascosa's heyday was brief, yet it compressed into a few years the history of an era-- that of the open range--which will never return. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sonnichsen, C. L.: - C. L. Sonnichsen (1901-1991) was Benedict Professor of English at the University of Texas, El Paso. His many books include The Mescalero Apaches, Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City, and Cowboys and Cattle Kings: Life on the Range Today McCarty, John L.: - John L. McCarty was a Texas newspaperman and publisher whose twin interests in the history of the Panhandle country and writing about it led to many articles and two books about the Old West. |