Black Range Tales: Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest. Introduction by Shane Leslie. Illustrated with Numerous Woodcuts by Howard Simon.
de McKenna, James A
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Glorieta, New Mexico: The Rio Grande Press, Inc., [1981]. Octavo, gold boards (hardcover), xiv, 300, [7] pp. Map illus. endpapers. Near-Fine, with slight edgewear. From Introduction: “Uncle Jimmie McKenna lived a lifetime in the great southwest. According to W. J. (Oxy Bill) Hamlett, 82, of Silver City, NM, a friend, McKenna was born in Greensbug, PA, in 1851...Oxy Bill says that he and Unlce Jimmie put these stories together on scraps of paper in the blacksmith shop years ago...Sometimes they got help from members of the Spit and Whittle Club of Kingston. Oxy Bill says that McKenna worked for awhile on the Mississippi River boats, but they were too tame. He came west, finally, and started prospecting around the Black Range for gold and silver, or anything else he could find...” Contents: Pioneering from ‘77 to ‘87; Lost Canyon Diggings; Over the Black Range; Danny’s Trouble with the Devil; Pilgrims, Burros, and Bears; A Kingston Foot Race; Christmas in Kingston; A Prospector’s Dream; The Four Neals; Mandy Lou; Pete; The Apache Passes By; Tales of a Western Judge; Radium Wells; Old Kentuck’s Dream; Old Towns and Friends.
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- Black Range Tales: Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest. Introduction by Shane Leslie. Illustrated with Numerous Woodcuts by Howard Simon.
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- McKenna, James A
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- The Rio Grande Press, Inc., [1981].
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- Glorieta, New Mexico
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- [1981]
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- Western Americana, American West, American History, United States History, New Mexico, Prospecting, Mining, Black Range.
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