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I See by My Get-Up
A former university professor recounts how he became a rancher in New Mexico and shares his observations on ranch life
151 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1987
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December 3, 2017
Another library sale shelf find, I picked this one because I like to read about people living a ranching lifestyle. Didn't pay too much more attention at the moment, but when I got home and looked closer, I found that I had previously read (and still owned) a copy of another book by the same author. So I was excited to learn something about his private life. And there were pictures, which always helps in a book like this.
Apologies for not making many detailed notes while reading, so I cannot be very specific, but this is the story of how Ron Querry went from being a rebellious college professor with a western background to marrying a ranch woman who was trying to keep life going on what had been her grandfather's cattle ranch in New Mexico.
He had worked with horses in his past, but was not a rancher. His wife was used to doing all the cattle work herself, and while at times she may have been happy for the help Ron gave, at other times he got them into the types of messes that are funny later. Much later.
I wondered about the title. Seemed an odd one to me until I read the excerpt from a version of a traditional cowboy song, The Streets Of Laredo. One man is out walking in Laredo and meets another who says "I see by your get-up that you are a cowboy ~~" and then he tells his tale.
That was not the version I knew, I had always heard 'outfit', not 'get-up'. And of course The Smothers Brothers version stays in one's head even longer than the normal ones do. So once I learned the reason for the title, I had a soundtrack in my head that made me laugh as much as some of Querry's stories did.
Anyway, the book was good and I decided when I finished to read that other book of his that I own, and which became my final title for November In Arizona. So coming right up will be my review of The Death of Bernadette Lefthand.
Apologies for not making many detailed notes while reading, so I cannot be very specific, but this is the story of how Ron Querry went from being a rebellious college professor with a western background to marrying a ranch woman who was trying to keep life going on what had been her grandfather's cattle ranch in New Mexico.
He had worked with horses in his past, but was not a rancher. His wife was used to doing all the cattle work herself, and while at times she may have been happy for the help Ron gave, at other times he got them into the types of messes that are funny later. Much later.
I wondered about the title. Seemed an odd one to me until I read the excerpt from a version of a traditional cowboy song, The Streets Of Laredo. One man is out walking in Laredo and meets another who says "I see by your get-up that you are a cowboy ~~" and then he tells his tale.
That was not the version I knew, I had always heard 'outfit', not 'get-up'. And of course The Smothers Brothers version stays in one's head even longer than the normal ones do. So once I learned the reason for the title, I had a soundtrack in my head that made me laugh as much as some of Querry's stories did.
Anyway, the book was good and I decided when I finished to read that other book of his that I own, and which became my final title for November In Arizona. So coming right up will be my review of The Death of Bernadette Lefthand.
April 9, 2013
Magnificent Kindle find! More! More!
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