Chili, stew, biscuits it's all here in over a hundred old-time recipes, home remedies too More than a cookbook, it's a treasure trove of ranch lore.
"This is a splendid collection of cowcamp cook tales and 112 authentic old-time dutch oven recipes." Books of the Southwest
"It is a delightful combination of yarns, history, nostalgia, and solid information all ingeniously brewed up and spiced by a lady who knows what she is about." Journal of Arizona History
"We haven't had a book that was so much fun to read in a long time." Journal of the West
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"Age and size ain't got nothin' to do with it," Mack's daddy once said. "You gotta want to be a cowboy." Mack Hughes wanted to be a cowboy, all right, and he was just twelve years old when he went to work for the famous Hashknife spread in northern Arizona. Growing up on the range, Mack lived a life about which modern boys can only wonder. He spins yarns of bad horses and the men who rode them, tells of wild dogs that ravaged young calves, and recalls lonely winter weeks spent at a remote camp-where his home was a shack so flimsy that snow blew through the cracks and covered his bed....