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Hashknife Cowboy: Recollections of Mack Hughes
by Stella Hughes
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0816508461
- ISBN 13
- 9780816508464
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Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
The Hashknife Pony Express, the longest sanctioned U.S. Postal Service Pony Express route in the world makes an annual trip to Scottsdale, AZ each year to deliver mail and celebrate the Old West.
The Hashknife riders will embark on a rigorous three-day, 200-mile journey on horseback, which begins on Jan. 28 when riders pick up the first bags of mail from the Holbrook post office. The mail is either sent in to the post office from various locations throughout the U.S, or is dropped off in person. The riders will stop at postal offices in Payson and Fountain Hills before spending the night on the Verde River at the Fort McDowell Indian Community. At noon on Jan. 30, the riders will arrive at the "Passing the Legacy" sculpture located on the north side of the Marshall Way Bridge and the Scottsdale Waterfront to deliver the mail.
"Age and size ain't got nothin' to do with it," Mack's daddy once said. "You gotta want to be a cowboy." Mack Hughes wanted to be a cowboy, all right, and he was just twelve years old when he went to work for the famous Hashknife spread in northern Arizona. Growing up on the range, Mack lived a life about which modern boys can only wonder. He spins yarns of bad horses and the men who rode them, tells of wild dogs that ravaged young calves, and recalls lonely winter weeks spent at a remote camp-where his home was a shack so flimsy that snow blew through the cracks and covered his bed.Stella Hughes, the author of the best-selling Chuck Wagon Cookin' and a cowhand in her own right, has compiled from her husband's reminiscences an authentic look both at Arizona history and at cowboying as it really was. Illustrated by Joe Beeler, a founding member of the Cowboy Artists of America.
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- Bookseller
- B-Well Ventures
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 148
- Title
- Hashknife Cowboy: Recollections of Mack Hughes
- Author
- Stella Hughes
- Illustrator
- Joe Beeler
- Format/Binding
- Excellent and Like New
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0816508461
- ISBN 13
- 9780816508464
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Place of Publication
- Tucson
- Date Published
- 1985
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B-Well Ventures
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Phoenix, Arizona
About B-Well Ventures
This is a family owned business with a desire to pass on the gift of reading book of all types. We have acquired some very rare book from the late 1890's to brand new books. We also offer text books at a very discounted price for struggling students. Books for all those who love to read.In addition, we offer CD's and DVD's
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