This I Can Leave You
A Woman's Days on the Pitchfork Ranch
978-1-58544-075-7 Paperback
6 x 9 x 0 in
324 pp. Illus.
Pub Date: 06/01/2000
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Her stories reveal life as it was on an isolated ranch during the war years and the years of change that followed. The Pitchfork is one of Texas’ largest and oldest ranches, eighty miles east of Lubbock and a hundred miles north of Abilene.
Mamie’s reminiscences about life there with her husband, her grandchildren, and the many hired hands needed to run such a spread portray the exuberant informality of chuck-house meals, the color of Christmas dances, and the Forks’ grand tradition of hospitality. “My book is about the ranch people,” she writes, “more than it is about the ranch’s history, or its skunks and rattlesnakes.”
Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
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