
A Cowman's Wife
Women played a vital and, until recently, frequently overlooked role in the settlement of the American West. They were not only mothers, schoolteachers, and nurses, but also cowgirls, outlaws, and ranchers. Mary Rak's career as a ranchwoman, and eventually an author, began in 1919, when she and her husband Charles Lukeman Rak purchased a 22,000-acre spread fifty miles north of Douglas, Arizona. She went on to recount her struggle to learn the cattle business and cope with the numerous problems of life on an isolated ranch. The new introduction to this rangeland classic was written by the late Sandra L. Myres. Her research into the lives and writings of ranchwomen provides an excellent background for understanding Mary Rak and her work.
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- title.officialtitle
- A Cowman's Wife
- title.seriestitle
- DeGolyer Library Cowboy and Ranch Life Series
- title.addedtitle
- Number Two: The DeGolyer Library Cowboy and Ranch Life Series.
- creator
- Rak, Mary Kidder, 1879-1958
- contributor.aui
- Myres, Sandra L.
- contributor.edt
- Farmer, David
- contributor.dsr
- Timmons, David
- publisher
- Texas State Historical Association
- date
- 1993
- language
- eng
- description.content
- Autobiographical anecdotes by Mary Rak about running a cattle ranch with her husband in Arizona. Index starts on page 293.
- description.physical
- xx, vii, 301 p. : ill.
- subject.LCSH
- Ranch life -- Arizona.
- subject.LCSH
- Ranchers' spouses -- Arizona -- Biography.
- subject.LCSH
- Old Camp Rucker Ranch (Ariz.)
- subject.LCSH
- Rak, Mary Kidder, 1879-1958.
- subject.UNTL-BS
- Agriculture - Ranching - Ranches
- subject.UNTL-BS
- Social Life and Customs
- subject.UNTL-BS
- Agriculture - Domestic Animals - Cattle
- subject.KWD
- autobiographies
- subject.KWD
- histories
- subject.KWD
- cattle ranches
- primarySource
- 0
- coverage.placeName
- United States - Arizona - Cochise County
- coverage.sDate
- 1917~
- coverage.eDate
- 193u
- collection
- TSHAM
- institution
- TSHA
- resourceType
- text_book
- format
- text
- identifier.OCLC
- 27811218
- identifier.ISBN
- 0876111274
- identifier.LCCN
- 93-7187
- identifier.SERIESNO
- 2
- identifier.LOCAL-CONT-NO
- TSHA_0088
- identifier.UNTCAT
- b1709032
- identifier.CALL-NO
- SF197.4.R35 1993
- note.display
- Reprint of text published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.) in 1934.
- note.nonDisplay
- Added title from back of book.

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