6666: Portrait of a Texas Ranch - Hardcover

Henry Chappell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0896725367 ISBN 13: 9780896725362

Publisher: Texas Tech University Press, 2004

Synopsis

'If ever there was a coffee-table book that could exemplify the best of the best, this is it. Wyman Meinzer's photos portray the heart and soul of this historic ranch, but even more important, so do Henry Chappell's words...His sentences drip with vivid imagery, allowing readers to watch a movie in their mind of this west Texas ranch where one's livelihood is still earned, four generations later' - ""True West"". ""The Sixes' - the name alone conjures all the history, romance, and tradition of the West. It's how the West was, and still is, on a 290,000-acre working cattle outfit in Texas...Chappell handily captures the essence of the West Texas cattle outfit and its history...Meinzer's work is eye-candy for those enamored of the ranching lifestyle. This coffee-table volume's a keeper' -""Western Horseman"". 'A sumptuous, beautifully written and illustrated volume that tells the story of one of the largest and most famous ranches in the Panhandle...Meinzer's photographs and Chappell's prose enchant the reader' - ""Roundup Magazine"". '[A] handsome, oversized book featuring lavish photographs...150 pages of stunning pictures ...Meinzer has produced about 15 other books that are credits to his talented eye, but this one may be the most impressive yet' - Glen Dromgoole, ""Lubbock Avalanche-Journal"".

About this title

Product Description:

6666 The Four Sixes is not a relic, showpiece, or preserve. It's a working cattle ranch, some 290,000 acres of West Texas prairie carefully used. Here, men still earn their livelihoods on horseback, not out of blind adherence to tradition, but out of necessity. Since Samuel "Burk" Burnett began buying rangeland in King County in the 1890s, his cowhands have relied on methods developed by early vaqueros Full description

About the Author:

Wyman Meinzer, of Benjamin, is one of today’s foremost portrayers of the Texas landscape.

Chappell hunts and fishes all over Texas and the Southwest. His articles, essays, and short stories have appeared in Field & Stream, Sports Afield, Gray's Sporting Journal, Texas Parks & Wildlife.

Red Steagall spent eight years as a music industry executive in California before deciding to dedicate himself to a career in recording, songwriting, television, and film that has spanned thirty-six years and has taken him around the globe. He was named the Official Cowboy Poet of Texas in 1991 and was inducted in the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2004. A five-time winner of the Wrangler Award for original music from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, he was inducted into the Museum's Hall of Great Westerners in 2003. Steagall conducts business from Fort Worth.

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0896725367
• ISBN 13: 9780896725362
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 157