Land And Cattle : Conservations With Joe Pankey, A New Mexico Rancher

Hardcover with dust jacket, 96 pages, 9x10.75 in, [2327.5 cm], B&W photographs.

Dust jacket rubbed, creased, dust-stained, pages age-tanned.

"This is a book on hard country ranching. Joe Pankey has been a cattle rancher in New Mexico all his life. Here, in Joe's own words and Jack Parson's photographs, is the story of the Pankey family ranch, how it grew and how it is run today - a story that preserves part of the history of an important but often overlooked industry...
Joe Pankey's narrative is a rich mixture of personal views on conservation and land management, tales of Pankey adventures - Joe's father traded cattle with Pancho Villa, and Joe himself was a bronc rider in rodeos and western movies - and impressions of ranch life, from modest beginnings to modern innovations. Pictures and text offer a fascinating commentary on the changes that have taken place during the twentieth century ....ranching is still made up of timeless skills of the cowboy -riding horses, mending fences, doctoring and branding cattle, repairing machinery. These tasks and others are carefully documented here in over 140 photographs ..." From the dust jacket's front flap.

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