Title: Cattle kings of the staked plains.
Authors: Wallis, George A.
Date: 1957
Publisher: American Guild Press,
Physical description: 180 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language: English
LC classification: F
Contents: Charles Goodnight and the JA Ranch -- C.C. Slaughter's Long-S -- The Farwells of the XIT -- Elizabeth McCormick, the Belle of Old Tascosa -- John S. Chisum and his "Jingle Bobs" -- Clifford B. Jones of the Spur Outfit -- Major George W. Littlefield and his Yellow House Ranch -- Isaac L. Elwood and the Spade -- Campbell and Mackenzie of the Matadors -- John T. McElroy at the foot of the plains -- William H. Bonney Alias Billy the Kid -- W.L. Hyatt of the 22 Outfit -- Claude Jeffers and "High Power" -- Bob Crosby and his Cross-B Ranch. Photographs: Col. C.C. Slaughter -- The capitol building in Austin: "The House the XIT Ranch built" -- A scene in the ealry days of the McElroy Packing Co. -- A herd on the trail in the Pecos River country near Carlsbad -- A branding scene on teh Quitaque division of the Slaughter ranches -- Bob Slaughter with the famous 4,000 pound Long S steer -- Claude Jeffers on "High Power," champion cutting horse of Texas -- Old Lincoln County jail and courthouse -- Billy the Kid's tombstone -- Bob Crosby roping a steer at the Pendleton Round-Up, 1927 -- Bob Crosby on "Nickel Grabber" -- Matador cowboys and Scottish stockholders around the chuck wagon in 1913 -- A Map of the Staked Plains / by Rufus L. Turner -- Appendix: Roster of World's Champion Cowboys.
Subject headings (LCSH): Llano Estacado.; New Mexico--Biography.; Ranch life.; Texas--Biography.