For the Western fan - the real stuff, and for the readers of her previous No Life For A Lady (1941) there's still the same sparkle and warmth. From the time when there was a personal and private interpretation of justice, when a new land was being carved out in spite of the emergencies of frontier living, on to the day of the Stanley Steamer and airplane, here is a procession of man hunts, cattle thieves, Indians, episodes above and below the border, disputes over land and the means by which they were settled - all in nostalgic presentation. Through the Cleaveland Papers housed at the New Mexico State University, Darlis Miller brings the story of the story to life. Die Tochter Der Prärie Agnes Morley Cleaveland, Sacred And Secular: Ancient Egyptian Ships And Boats (AIA Monographs New Series, No. Maxwell continued a feudal tradition, the claims of English and Dutch, the part that Clay Allison, Dick Wootton and his toll gate, the rowdies and the trail blazers, the law officers and Fred Lambert especially are part of the story which encompasses some eight generations of life in New Mexico. In 1941, Cleaveland wrote her memoir No Life for a Lady about growing up on a New Mexico cattle ranch where she was born in 1874. where Agnes spent the early part of her life until she was sent to school in Philadelphia. The Morley family settled near Datil, N.M. The controversial Maxwell Land Grant whose master Lucien B. Agnes Morley Cleaveland was born in 1874. Chronicles of Colfax County, and Cimarron in particular, are given a personal touch as the author parades a series of personalities and incidents gathered from family history and first hand interviews.

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