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Review: No Life for a LadyUser Review - Alison - GoodreadsInteresting look into life on a New Mexican cattle ranch in the late 1800's, riding side saddle, no less. Read full review Review: No Life for a LadyUser Review - Zola - GoodreadsBought this at the Gateway Arch on a highschool band trip. I'm going to re-read it eventually, cuz it's been a long time since I read it. Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesain't Alamosa arrived asked Aunt Laura bear became bedroll began better Billy Bob Lewis Bob Matheson Bob McCord buckboard bunch burro calf camp Catron County cattle Clay Allison Corky Corky's corral course cowboy cowpuncher coyotes Datil dogs door eyes face father feet fence Gatlin Gene Gene Rhodes girl grizzly grizzly bear hand head herd homesteaders horse hundred Indian Jim Broyles knew lady later lived looked Lora Lora's Magdalena Maynard Dixon Mexican Mexico miles Montague Stevens Morley mother mountain Navajo neighbor never night Pie Town pinon ponies ranch range Ray and Bowlegs Ray's remember ride rode rope saddle San Augustine seemed side six-shooter Socorro County stand stood story sure tell told took town trail tree turned wagon waiting wanted young Popular passagesPage 37 - ... well-stocked cattle range of a good many thousand acres, she rode and did her indomitable best to keep herself informed about what was happening to her livestock; but she was unable successfully to cope with the cattle rustlers who abounded and with the proclivities of open-range cattle to wander. That she survived the years that followed speaks volumes for her courage, her stamina, and her self-sacrifice. It would have been so very easy to sink under the all but overwhelming flood of hardships... Page 171 - Midnight supper consisted of coffee and cake. Every woman brought a cake, whether she came by wagon or horseback. Even when it is packed in a tin bucket it is no mean achievement to keep a layer cake intact for mile after mile on horseback. Page 7 - Not content with exposing their machinations in his own paper, he and the Reverend FJ Tolby, a crusading Methodist minister, wrote a series of articles about them for Dana of the New York Sun. The Reverend Tolby's tombstone bears the inscription, 'Assassinated Sept. 14. 1875. Page 333 - Their clearings may be seen with the stumps of the piñons still showing, or the dust of their plowed fields blowing across the face of the sky. A windmill is a rare exception, but 'dirt tanks' for restraining flood water during the rainy season are adjuncts of many of them. Page 156 - Not many had reason to, with their menfolks to carry the responsibility of looking after their cattle. It was this deadly staying at home month in and month out, keeping a place of refuge ready for their men when they returned from their farings-forth, that called for the greater courage, I think. Men walked in a sort of perpetual adventure, but women waited — until perhaps the lightning struck. Page 38 - I was walking on clouds. I was a useful member of society. The horse never recovered sufficiently to be of any value, but the experience was momentous for me. I had earned the horse by not screaming in terror when a fearsome-looking stranger set me for the first time on a horse's back. Page 122 - Wheeler, who topped me in age by a few months and in stature by almost a foot. Gus furnished the school with its major problem in discipline. Page 160 - ... the present type of tipped match instead of the blocks of sulphurheaded matches the fumes of which gave them their local name of 'hell-sticks' and 'choked a fellow to death before he could get his cigareet lighted.' Most ranches supplied 'hell-sticks. References to this bookFrom other books
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