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2007 New Mexico Book Award
Best Southwest History Book University of Oklahoma Press "What happens when you turn history over to a poet who has also been a rancher? You get a delightful, intelligent,
nonlinear treatment of southwestern ranch life that deftly belnds history, personal experience, and cultural commentary. I
generally dislike authorial intrusions into historical explorations, but, in this case, it works wonderfully....Furthermore,
the book weaves together human, natural, and animal history, providing a complete and satisfying portrait of ranch life, yesterday
and today....He candidly ponders the meshing of history, myth, and legend that marks so much of western accounts. His journey
of self-discovery, backed by substantive research into a good range of historical sources of ranch life, informs and entertains.
No reader interest in the American Southwest could ask for more."
"For some 150 years, the large and widely scattered Cowden family of West Texas and New Mexico has exemplified the ever-changing
ranching industry, sharing in its occasional flush times and enduring hardship and pain through its frequent droughts and
periods of depression. With a skillful blending of past and present, author Michael Pettit demonstrates how the industry has
met, and sometimes failed to meet, the challenges of the times."
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