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The Ranch That Was Us

Amazon.com Price:  $10.45 (as of 12/04/2019 08:55 PST- Details)

Description

Braiding strands of earthen insight with uproarious storytelling, Texas Hill Country legendary creator Becky Patterson recreates the history of the Steiler Hill Ranch in twenty-four anecdotal chapters interspersed with original artwork. The result is a mix of memoir and montage, treasure chest and tableau vivant of a world that’s beautiful, brash, and wonderfully heartbreaking. Patterson — the daughter of Texas folk hero and self-proclaimed mayor of Luckenbach, Hondo Crouch — has big shoes to fill and she does so successfully in this colorful choice of Hill Country and Texas ranch vignettes.

Foreman and general cowboy guru Raymond Kuhlmann tells stories of the Goat King and German drinking songs, the buzzard traps and Mexican corridos that filled the middle of the night pastures. First-person accounts and vivid historical narratives evoke the ranch’s past, overlaid with Patterson’s breathless personal histories of afternoons spent rescuing a doe in a nightgown, or saving a porcupine from a pack of dogs.

This is a book in an effort to connect you to no matter what patch of earth you hold dear. It is poignant reminder of the landscapes we’ve forgotten to keep close, of the land that doesn’t belong to us but simply is who we are. The Ranch That Used to be Us is an affectionate reminder to go out of doors and touch the earth that may be you.

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