Back Cover: "Home Ranch" by Will James. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition. Illustrated by the Author
John B. Mitchell, owner of the Seven X Ranch, started out with a few saddle horses that wasn't his and a long rope. He left Texas, in a hurry, in the late 1870's and drifted northward. Half a century later he was the monarch of a pretty fair sized outfit -- sixty miles long and over forty miles wide, with rivers and two mountain ranges and fine rolling country -- and thousands of cattle.
This is the story of life on the Seven X, of the Mitchell family and the cowboys who worked for them: of young Austin Mitchell and his sister June, and of the "pilgrims" from the East who invited themselves to the Seven X one summer to find out what "real" ranch life was like.
Without pulling a single six-gun, fanning a trigger, or using any other stock device of Western fiction, Will James tells the story of life on the Seven X Ranch during the early 1900s. This authentic portrait of a ranching family details their dangerous work, their dreams and aspirations, and the rugged land they lived in.
Back Cover: "Home Ranch" by Will James. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition. Illustrated by the Author
John B. Mitchell, owner of the Seven X Ranch, started out with a few saddle horses that wasn't his and a long rope. He left Texas, in a hurry, in the late 1870's and drifted northward. Half a century later he was the monarch of a pretty fair sized outfit -- sixty miles long and over forty miles wide, with rivers and two mountain ranges and fine rolling country -- and thousands of cattle.
This is the story of life on the Seven X, of the Mitchell family and the cowboys who worked for them: of young Austin Mitchell and his sister June, and of the "pilgrims" from the East who invited themselves to the Seven X one summer to find out what "real" ranch life was like.
Without pulling a single six-gun, fanning a trigger, or using any other stock device of Western fiction, Will James tells the story of life on the Seven X Ranch during the early 1900s. This authentic portrait of a ranching family details their dangerous work, their dreams and aspirations, and the rugged land they lived in.