"Ben Green has won the approval of the sternest literary critics I know-ranch cowboys. In old Doc's books, they recognize a man who knew horses and cattle to the bone and could tell about them with honest prose and a sly cowboy sense of humor. I've read them all, as have most of the cowboys I kno...
From the same corral that produced the widely loved Horse Tradin’, Ben K. Green has rounded up fifteen new yarns filled with the ornery yet irresistible style that has earned his books a place in classic Western Americana.Some More Horse Tradin’ recounts the dealings of a whole slew of craggy old...
I had answered a call earlier in the day south of Sanderson and went to my batchin’ outfit instead of going back to town that night. Mr. Hill, who was foreman of the Hess Ranch a few miles north of Marathon, had been trying to reach me at Fort Stockton. When he couldn’t get me he called Roger Gal...
These nice little, fat, young, hard-twisted, ill-tempered, unbroke Mexican mules were getting in bed with me, so to speak, because they were worth about $17 a head; I had been feeding them about two months, and I had a little more money than that in them to start with, not counting the feed bill....
Shultz Bros. had leased the Coleman pasture, about twelve miles north of Weatherford, and I was going out there to check around on the cattle and come back that night or the next morning. I had tied my horse to the telephone pole on the east side of Huddleston’s Drugstore, which was next door to ...