XIT Buck: The Personal Recollections of a Fast-Moving and Fascinating Boyhood - Softcover

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BUCK MACCONNELL'S STORY is filled with amusing anecdotes, little-known facts, real personalities, and genuine adventures. It is as authentically Western as Buck himself, who, at the tender age of thirteen, rode the boxcars west - not without encounters with treacherous tramps and surly brakemenn-nfinally arriving in Colorado where he began to learn the ways of the West. nThree years later Buck signed on at the XIT, largest ranch under fence in the world. Covering over three million acres of land, the XIT was the giant of the cattle industry. It is here that MacConnell's recollections linger as he tells his story of cattle ranching, lusty people, and limitless horizons early in this century.nnVoid of glitter and Western stereotypes, XIT Buck is a picturesque review of one cowboy's perspective of the most transitional period that the ranch cattle industry has ever experienced.n- Austin American-Statesman

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