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The memoir of a man who was part of a part of every gold discovery that stirred the West, from the summer of 1851 when he traveled the Oregon trail to California, until a January day in 1869 when he climbed aboard an eastbound train at Evanston, Wyoming.

Through the recollections of Edward Everett Dale we are able to view a pattern of life in rural America now gone forever.

This is the story of and by an outspoken Texian, complete with his attitudes, principles, and moralizings, and the nineteenth-century style and flavor of his writing.

The memoir of a man's boyhood on a ranch in east Texas.

A firsthand account of pioneer life in east Texas.

The memoirs of a man who participlated in virtually every major event in Texas history from 1836 to 1896.

A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, as told by one of its workers.Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaireand didfor some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and iniquity that some feared. In Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers, Gerald Lynch provides a much-needed insider's view of the oil industry, describing life in various oil fields in and around Texas. He also chronicles changes in drilling methods and oil-field technology and how these changes affected him and his fellow oil-field workers. No one else has written a working-class history of the oil fields as colorful and articulate as this one.</

The classic account of what day-to-day life was like for cowboys and pioneer families in the American West. Born in a log cabin in 1879Edward Everett Dale sought education and become a prolific and versatile professional writerbut always remained rooted in his close connection to the frontier. He lived in a sod house, and once rode the range as cook to a group of cowboys. His life experiences brought exceptional authenticity to his work, including this classic first-hand account of the way pioneers lived. In Frontier Ways he describes all aspects of frontier life: the building of a home, the problems of finding wood and water, the procuring and cooking of food, medical practices, and the cultural, social, and religious life of pioneer families. Lively and involving, this collection of his essays has allowed generations of readers to look back on the West's fascinating past. ';At times [Dale] was the serious scholarly research-bent historian, but more often he was the folklorist, humorist, on-the-spot frontier reporter.' Great Plains Journal