Paso por Aqui de Rhodes, Eugene Manlove - 1982-01-01

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Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976. Third Printing . Trade Paperback. Good. 4 3/4" x 7 1/2. 128 Pages. A 1 1/4 inch bottom corner crease. Taking his title, Pasó Por Aquí, from Juan de Oñate's carving in the living rock of El Morro, New Mexico, Eugene Manlove Rhodes created his own memorial to the decent people of his world who had passed this way without fanfare. Rhodes wrote about them with wit, gusto, and tenderness, with honesty, clarity, and a sureness of interpretation as yet unequaled. He captured for all time the free, lonely, self-reliant, skilled, eternally optimistic essence of his West. Rhodes himself rode a brindle steer, fleeing from an irate sheriff, as his story hero McEwen does, and Rhodes made seven miles on his bovine mount before the beast sulled on him. Rhodes was also a volunteer nurse in a diphtheria pest house when El Garrotillo (the strangler) was the most feared disease in the isolated West. Pat Garrett appears here under his own name and in a favorable… Leer más

Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1982. Reprint. Wraps. Good. W. H. D. Koerner. Western Frontier Library. 12mo, 128 pp., illus. including two in color. Wrappers a bit handled and edgeworn, previous owner name/address on halftitle and name inside back cover, otherwise unmarked.

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Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1973. Paperback. New. 148 pages. 7.40x5.30x0.60 inches.

University of Oklahoma Press. Paperback. New. 7x5x0.

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Paperback / softback. New. Taking his title, <i>Pasó Por Aquí, </i>from Juan de Oñate's carving in the living rock of El Morro, New Mexico, Eugene Manlove Rhodes created his own memorial to the decent people of his world who had ""passed this way"" without fanfare.<br /> Rhodes wrote about them with wit, gusto, and tenderness, with honesty, clarity, and a sureness of interpretation as yet unequaled. He captured for all time the free, lonely, self-reliant, skilled, eternally optimistic essence of his West.<br /> Rhodes himself rode a brindle steer, fleeing from an irate sheriff, as his story hero McEwen does, and Rhodes made seven miles on his bovine mount before the beast ""sulled"" on him. Rhodes was also a volunteer nurse in a diphtheria pest house when El Garrotillo (the strangler) was the most feared disease in the isolated West.<br /> Pat Garrett appears here under his own name and… Leer más

University of Oklahoma Press, 1973-08-15. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!