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My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting. Six Years With the Texas Rangers: Nine Years Among the Indians, Here's how restrictions apply. About the Author Richard W. Penguin Classics December 1, Language: Start reading A Texas Cowboy on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle? Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: Share your thoughts with other customers.
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I like him because he's a man of opposites. In this book, he's a younger man than the first book I read. Here, he is, feisty and determined and also quirky, to his own detriment. He roped a buffalo. He is also a man who lived the hard life of a cowboy. Wannabes would think twice about adopting the cowboy lifestyle.
The book is written in a first person report style, short and clipped sentences some might find "off-putting" but he makes fun of himself with a humorous honesty I enjoyed. He wouldn't pass a lie-detector test, but I still enjoyed the book. One person found this helpful. Sincere recollections of Charlie from his youth in Matagorda, TX; his love of cowboying on the open range, an absolute window on the true past of wrangling, roping, branding, driving and selling wild cattle to the east to feed the nation after the Civil War.
A winsome trail is travelled as you immerse in the world that was from cowboy to detective. It informs how we got to where we are today, with railroads, conspiracies, politics, superimposition of law and the hemming in of the heartland. I hated to report their threats against the greedy corporation which treated them as slaves. The Pinkerton Agency once again succeeded in suppressing the book. It tried to have Siringo prosecuted for libel, requesting extradition from his ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico , to Chicago.
However, New Mexico governor George Curry denied the extradition request. Pinkerton operatives bought up all copies available at newsstands and obtained a court order confiscating the book's plates. In , Siringo began working as a New Mexico Ranger to assist in the capture of numerous rustlers causing problems in the area, holding that position until His health began to fail, and his ranch was failing owing to his having been away for some time.
He moved to Los Angeles , where he became somewhat of a celebrity due to his well-publicized exploits. He renewed his relationship with Wyatt Earp during this period. The Pinkerton Agency again halted publication, resulting in a whittled down and revised copy being released the following year, with many fictional accounts rather than the true accounts that Siringo had envisioned. Siringo died in Altadena, California , on October 18, He was buried at Inglewood Cemetery in Inglewood California. His activities remain some of the first examples of the use of undercover work in the capture of fugitives.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A Texas Cow Boy: Two Evil Isms, Pinkertonism and Anarchism: A Lone Star cowboy. A History of "Billy the Kid". Nineteenth-Century American Western Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. University Of New Mexico Press. The Floor of Heaven: Retrieved 16 April Archived from the original on The Handbook of Texas Online. But the single mom is so focused on her big-city fairy tale, she could miss Chance's offer of the most important gift of all—the love and support of a real family.
Paperback , pages. Published November 8th by Harlequin first published November 1st To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about A Texas Cowboy's Christmas , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about A Texas Cowboy's Christmas. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. It's easy to dismiss the importance and drive for financial security when you have always been wealthy and never had to worry about paying your bills, so Chance's disdain of Molly's motivation for success came across as self-indulgent and annoying.
Think of the self-indulgent monster you are raising. One of the reasons Molly dismissed a relationship with 2.
One of the reasons Molly dismissed a relationship with Chance was because he came from money - yet that's all she worked for. That seems so hypocritical to me. Nov 04, Beth rated it really liked it.
She is in charge of the design and materials to be used on a kitchen renovation on the Circle H Ranch. Molly and Chance seem to suffer from mutual aggravation whenever they are together but they need to finish the project in five weeks, for the planned fund-raiser for the Lockhart Foundation and the West Texas Warrior Assistance Gala. There is another problem with this situation. Braden has come to look at Cowboy Chance as an idol, and wants to be just like him.
Not exactly what Molly had planned for her son. Molly is a single mother who wants only the best for her child. She wants all the material things that money can buy for her son, all the things she never had as a child. Molly plans on moving to Dallas after the first of the year in order to grow her business and be better prepared to provide for her son. While working together, a relationship develops; but can it withstand their different opinions on the value of money and social standing? Will it be able to continue if Molly and Braden move to Dallas? And will Santa bring Braden his bull family for Christmas?
This was a warm, funny Christmas story with an important message in it.
The characters, even the minor characters, were well developed. The dialog was realistic and the storyline entertaining, it drew you into the story quickly. The character of Braden was so well written that you fell in love with him and his innocents from the start. Jan 01, Lisa Richards rated it really liked it. I've read dozens of Thacker's books and she always delivers a satisfying story. I love that so many of her's are westerns as a good western romance is not always plentiful.
She ranks right up there with the best of them. I love that family is at the root of all of her stories and love the humor that she mixes in. Molly is a single mother and though I gotta give her points for being a super Mom, I didn't much like that she seemed to think that material things were the most important thing in life. Luckily, Chance is able to overlook that and see the real Molly.
Frankly, I felt like slapping her silly a couple of times. Braden, Molly's son, was so adorable. Toss in a kid and a cowboy and you'll hook me every time. Jan 07, DelAnne Frazee rated it it was amazing Shelves: Cathy Gillen Thacker Published: Description from the Publisher: Though being with the handsome rancher does make the idea of small-town life more tempting… Molly has always gotten under Chance's skin, and now that he's bonded with her little tyke, he can't imagine Bullhaven Ranch without them.
My review of "A Texas Cowboy's Christmas": A story with strong characters that are well rounded and believable. The plot revolves around the collaboration of Molly and Chance to prepare for the upcoming Gala, but they cannot seem to be in each other's presence Unfortunately she seems to have closed off her heart to the possibility of love and forgotten the best things in life can't be bought.
With Christmas close at hand perhaps the magic in the season will heal old wounds and bring a Christmas miracle or two. My rating for "A Texas Cowboy's Christmas" is 4. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.