MAVERICK TOWN, THE STORY OF OLD TASCOSA.

McCarty, John L. C.L. Sonnichsen [Charles Leland Sonnichsen], 1901-1991 (Foreword). Harold D. Bugbee (illustrator).

ISBN 10: 0806120894 / ISBN 13: 9780806120898

Published by Norman, OK and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988., 1968

About this Item

Reprint of the 1968 enlarged edition. xvi, 287 pages. Paperback: H 21.5cm x L 13.75cm. Stiff paper covers lightly rubbed, minor bumping and touch of soiling at bottom corner of front cover and at bottom corners of first several leaves. Interior pages are otherwise bright and clean and binding is still crisp. Else a near fine copy. Foreword by C.L. Sonnichsen with chapter decorations (illustrations) by Harold D. Bugbee. ISBN 0806120894.

Seller Inventory # PXZP-20896

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MAVERICK TOWN, THE STORY OF OLD TASCOSA.
• Publisher: Norman, OK and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806120894
• ISBN 13: 9780806120898
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana-Regional

About this title

Synopsis

Once the rival of Dodge City and Cheyenne, for years Tascosa, Texas, lay a ghost town of crumbling adobes. Today almost all traces of frontier Tascosa are gone, replaced by the ultramodern stone buildings which make up a self-contained city of boys and administrative staff—Cal Farley's famed Boys Ranch.

Maverick Town tells the story of the rise and decline of Old Tascosa, which epitomized the romance and danger of the early West. Tascosa's heyday was brief, yet it compressed into a few years the history of an era— that of the open range—which will never return.

About the Authors

John L. McCarty was a Texas newspaperman and publisher whose twin interests in the history of the Panhandle country and writing about it led to many articles and two books about the Old West.

C.  L. Sonnichsen (1901-1991) was Benedict Professor of English at the University of Texas, El Paso. His many books include The Mescalero Apaches, Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City, and Cowboys and Cattle Kings: Life on the Range Today