Bar Nothing Ranch

by Rosemary Taylor

Bar Nothing Ranch is a novel by Rosemary Taylor that tells the story of a young woman named Hannah who inherits a ranch in the Texas Hill Country from her grandfather. Despite having no experience with ranching or farming, Hannah decides to take on the challenge of running the ranch and making it profitable. She quickly learns that ranching is not an easy task, and she faces numerous obstacles along the way, including drought, financial difficulties, and a hostile neighbor who wants to buy her land.As Hannah struggles to keep the ranch afloat, she meets a variety of colorful characters, including a handsome cowboy named Jake, who becomes her ally and confidant. Together, they work to overcome the challenges of running a ranch and build a life together on the Bar Nothing Ranch.Throughout the novel, Taylor paints a vivid picture of life in rural Texas, with its rugged landscapes, harsh weather, and close-knit communities. She also explores themes of family, love, and perseverance, as Hannah learns to navigate the complexities of ranching and find her place in the world.Overall, Bar Nothing Ranch is a heartwarming and engaging novel that will appeal to fans of Western fiction and anyone who enjoys a good story about overcoming adversity and finding one's place in the world.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

248 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1947

Reviews

[Phillip · Rating 3 out of 5]

Within the covers of this book is a cavalcade of anecdotes from the annals of the 76 Dude Ranch in Arizona. Here are collected tales of the interactions between ranchers and guests as they work and live side by side in the mid-twentieth century

Rosemary Taylor displays a deft hand at telling a tale and finding the humor in human relationships. The book has no pretensions towards dramatic flow. The reader might well imagine themselves sitting around a desert campfire participating in a friendly session of yarn swapping, which is by no means an unpleasant diversion.

[Bernice · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was my second reading, the first was in 1947. The content is not as risque as the title suggests. It is a fictionalized narrative of guests at the 76 Ranch in Bonita, Arizona written by a native Tucsonian. Of particular interest is a character in Chapter 17, who is loosely based on my husband who was a bachelor guest at the ranch during the summer of 1945.

[Pamela]

This summer I've read Chicken Every Sunday and Ridin' the Rainbow also by Taylor. I found this book for my dad who remembered reading it back in the 1960s. Taylor is an interesting western writer with a great eye for humor.