TRAILS TO TEXAS : Southern Roots of Western Cattle Ranching

Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Taupe linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fin. Illustrated ("A Cracker Cowboy", Frederick Remington) DJ/NF with closed tear to upper front by spine & faint creasings to upper backk; under mylar. Monograph of the system of open-range cattle ranching in the Great Plains written by 6th-generation Texan with ancestral roots among herders and ranchers, professor of geology, Terry G. Jordan. An analytical essay in cultural geography . a study of culture from a spatial and ecological point of view with attention to the interrelationship between "peopl;e as bearers of culture and the physical environment that houses them." The work traces the Anglo cattle-herding culture from South Carolina to Texas where it meets with Hispanic herdsmaen of skilled horsemanship.