Title: The hash knife brand /
Authors: Tinsley, Jim Bob.
Publisher: University Press of Florida,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Ranch life Southwest, New History.; Hash Knife Brand.; Cowboys Southwest, New History.; Cattle trade Southwest, New History.; Frontier and pioneer life Southwest, New; Southwest, New Social life and customs.
Abstract: Old-time western action and adventure punctuate this history of cowboy life and commerce, the story of a large-scale cattle-ranching business when ranges were still unfenced and cattle drives raised dust from Texas to Montana. Jim Bob Tinsley traces the development of the Hash Knife outfit - its brand, its owners, and its hell-for-leather cowboys - through three Texas ranches (one with its own Boot Hill and a foreman who wore chaps with cartridge loops that dangled to his knees), a vast Montana range, and a two-million-acre spread in northern Arizona.
Contents: 1. Cattlemen-Bankers with a Vision -- 2. Choosing a Brand and Beginning a Cattle Empire -- 3. The Trans-Pecos Range -- 4. Between the Forks of the Brazos -- 5. A New Range 1,200 Miles North -- 6. The Hash Knife Outfit in the Arizona Territory -- 7. Rhyming Robber of the Hash Knife -- 8. Songs on the Hash Knife Range -- 9. Trouble between Cowboys and Navajos -- 10. Sheriff Frank Wattron's International Furor -- 11. The Babbitt Era of the Hash Knife in Arizona -- 12. The Hash Knife Today.