Pulling Leather: Being the Early Recollections of a Cowboy on the Wyoming Range, 1884-1889
by Reuben B. Mullins
Category: Biography & Autobiography

Round-ups, trail drives, a lynching, mail order romances, blacksmithing, bunkhouse humor, Indians, the Blizzard of 1885-86, cattle barons, Calamity Jane, the rise & demise of the open-range cattle era--Rueben Mullins experienced the West as it will never be again. His original first-hand account languished in archival collection until now, 100 years after he rode the open-range, Mullins's story has been published to high praise by historians, literary review publications, & readers: "...(this) memoir represents as real a record of life in the West as exists anywhere..."--RED NECK REVIEW OF LITERATURE. "...full of specific & carefully observed details about round-ups, horse breaking...& all the day-to-day affairs that are so conspicuously absent from THE VIRGINIAN or even from THE LOG OF A COWBOY..."--TEXAS BOOKS IN REVIEW. "...'perzactly' the sort of book True West readers love most!"--TRUE WEST. "Reuben B. Mullins could ride & write!"--BLOOMSBURY REVIEW. "This well-rounded narrative is reminiscent of such range classics as Teddy 'Blue' Abbot's WE POINTED THEM NORTH & Andy Adams' THE LOG OF A COWBOY"--B. Byron Price, Executive Director, National Cowboy Hall of Fame. Finalist: 1989 Ben Franklin Awards. Wyoming Historical Association Award.