A01=Ben K. Green
animal health
Arizona
Author_Ben K. Green
big animal vet
Category=FJW
cattle ranching
cowboys
deep southwest
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equince Vetenarians
equine
equine anatomy
equine behavior
equine vet
horse doctore
horse stories
horse trader
life of cowboys in the early 1900’s
Pecos
rancher stories
ranchers
Rio Grande
Southwest
texas history
Texas veterinarian
trans-Pecos territory
true cowboy stories
veterinarian in the far Southwest
western literature
westerners
Product details
- ISBN 9780803270909
- Weight: 340g
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2000
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Ben K. Green takes us back to the deep Southwest and the never-a-dull-moment years he spent as a practicing horse doctor along the Pecos and the Rio Grande. With precious little formal schooling but a perfect corral-side manner and plenty of natural wit, Green became the first to hang up a shingle in the trans-Pecos territory. Hear him tell the tales of his struggles with mean stockmen, yellowweed fever, banditos, poison hay, and “drouth.” His canny mix of science and horse sense when treating animals “that ain’t house pets” is 100-proof old time pleasure.
A veterinarian in the far Southwest for much of his life, Ben K. Green retired to ranch in Texas until his death in 1974.
