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Saddling Up Anyway

Dearen, Patrick
Saddling Up Anyway
Author Patrick Dearen brings the reckless and risky adventures of real cowboys to life with colorful stories from interviews with 76 men who cowboyed in the West before 1932 as well as 150 archival interviews and written accounts from as early as the 1870s and well into the mid-twentieth century.

CHF 23.50

The Hidden Treasure of the Chisos

Dearen, Patrick
The Hidden Treasure of the Chisos
The Big Bend of Texas is a mysterious place in 1869. Legend has it that there's a lost gold mine in the Chisos Mountains. Twelve-year-old Fish Rawlings and his cousin Gid have heard all about it. But when they discover a dying Indian in the desert, they have reason to believe it. Suddenly the boys find themselves with a great secret. No one else knows the way to the last Chisos mines-but do they dare? To find it, they must cross a desert prowl...

CHF 14.50

A Cowboy of the Pecos

Dearen, Patrick
A Cowboy of the Pecos
In the late 1880s, the Pecos River region of Texas and southern New Mexico was known as the cowboy s paradise. And the cowboys who worked in and around the river were known as the most expert cowboys in the world. A Cowboy of the Pecos vividly reveals tells the story of the Pecos cowboy from the first Goodnight-Loving cattle drive to the 1920s. These meticulously researched and entertaining stories offer a glimpse into a forgotten and yet myth...

CHF 19.90

Devils River

Dearen, Patrick
Devils River
In his newest book, "Devils River, " Patrick Dearen traces the 400-year history of the notorious river from the time of the first Spanish explorers to the modernization of southwestern Texas and the coming of the railroad.

CHF 32.50

To Hell or the Pecos

Dearen, Patrick
To Hell or the Pecos
Tom Rowden has been riding away from the Pecos River for twenty years, plagued by the haunting image of his wife, Sarah, the second before he killed her. Now, he is dead-set on returning to her unmarked grave above the river to make one final atonement. His journey is interrupted when a group of Mexican bandits burn down the 7L's ranch house, kill the ranch boss, and rape and abduct his daughter, Liz Anne. The 7L's greenhorn wagon boss, Jess G...

CHF 32.50

When the Sky Rained Dust

Dearen, Patrick
When the Sky Rained Dust
Fourteen-year-old Josh and his friend Shan are facing hard times on their families' farms in Central Texas in 1934. It's the days of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and rain is as scarce as money. With the long dry spell have come wild animals with flashing teeth and deadly rabies. Dust storms known as black blizzards are raging, threatening lives and destroying cropland. Will a rainmaker bring rain? Will their families lose their homes...

CHF 26.90

Castle Gap and the Pecos Frontier, Revisited

Dearen, Patrick
Castle Gap and the Pecos Frontier, Revisited
First published in 1988, Castle Gap and the Pecos Frontier was acclaimed by reviewers as "superb", "significant", and "utterly delightful". In this revised edition, Patrick Dearen draws on the latest in scholarship to update his study of the Pecos River country of West Texas. It's a land wild with tales that blend history, geography, and folklore, and from his search emerge six fascinating accounts.

CHF 31.50

Halff of Texas

Dearen, Patrick
Halff of Texas
Cowman Mayer Halff rode a long, busy trail that few men could have followed. It carried him from 1850s France to Texas and across 1, 500 miles of wild western country waiting to be tamed. Throughout his life, he was at ease whether dining with a U.S. President at a plush metropolitan banquet or squatting across a campfire from a dirt-streaked cowboy in some forsaken cow camp. Immigrating as a fourteen-year-old, Halff began as a foot peddler...

CHF 35.50

Perseverance

Dearen, Patrick
Perseverance
It was 1932, the depths of the Great Depression, and thousands of desperate people rode the rails in search of jobs, homes, and hope. For some, the tracks were a road to nowhere, a dead end in a boxcar or under the wheels or in a sea of emptiness. Their fate seemed certain-until Ish Watson grabbed the rungs of a passing freight train bound for a dying relative on the Texas Gulf Coast. He brought with him the traits bestowed by his rural upb...

CHF 30.90

The Big Drift

Dearen, Patrick
The Big Drift
Will Brite is a Slash Five cowboy working in the Middle Concho region of Texas in the winter of 1884 when a blizzard descends upon him—the likes of which he has never seen. Trapped under his horse and entangled in a barbed wire fence, Will finds an unexpected (and unwelcome) saviour in the form of Zeke Boles, a former slave on the run from a bloody, guilt-filled past.

CHF 32.50