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Buffalo Guns and Barbed Wire: Two Frontier Accounts by Don Hampton Biggers Biggers, Don Hampton; Greene, A C and Connor, Seymour V

Newspaperman Don Hampton Biggers witnessed the last years of the West Texas frontier and grew intrigued with the buffalo hunters, the early cattlemen, and the stories they told As the twentieth century began, he was collecting and publishing the recollections of oldtimers who had participated in making Texas historyThis book combines two of Biggerss works, History That Will Never Be Repeated> 1901 and Pictures of the Past 1902both rare and coveted by collectors of Texana The two, republished in 1991 as a Book Club of Texas special edition and trade clothbound edition, are now available in paperback for the first timeFor Pictures of the Past the author wove old buffalo hunters stories into descriptions of the herds, the slaughter, Indian incidents, Fort Griffin, the battle at Adobe Walls, and much more History That Will Never Be Repeated records lore of the cattle industry in West Texas from 1876 In these vivid accounts by cowboys and ranchers are some of the most emblematic events of the American Westriding line, working roundup, turning a drift herdrecalled not for their romance but for their hardship and for the sheer endurance required of the men who lived them The remarkable period photography of George Robertson and Erwin E Smith illustrates the book in duotone throughout