John Peirce, Sherry Cherryhomes Peirce

Cowboys & Cowtales

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Neil Investments Inc
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781098313609
• ISBN-10: 1098313607
• Artikelnr.: 60205177

Autorenporträt

My early childhood was spent in Archer County, Texas. Then our family moved to the Adams Ranch, east of Matador, Texas. This ranch was 42,000 acres and included the eastern most acreages of the historic Matador Ranch (which had just sold). By the eighth grade I was making regular cowboy wages when not in school: $8 dollars a day. Somewhat reluctantly, I left after graduating high school and started college. In 1970, seven years later, I graduated veterinary school. I practiced in San Antonio for six years: equine medicine and surgery. Then we departed for Clovis, New Mexico, - sole reason.....I did not want to raise kids in an urban area. Slowly, I developed a remote ranch practice covering a large area of SE New Mexico and NW Texas--including working the weekly cattle sale in Lubbock, Texas, two and sometimes three days a week. Though not professionally challenging, I throughly enjoyed the people and the activities. In retrospect had I to do it over again, I would have been over in the Animal Science Department more directly involved with beef cattle instead of veterinary school. Close but no cigar, was true for me until I met Sherry. Then my life went from black & white to cinematographic color. Thank you Lord. >My dad worked for the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Assn. and they transferred him to the central office in Fort Worth when I was 14. It was a life changer for all of us and a very difficult transition. I did eventually adapt to urban life but for most of my life have felt that I have had one foot in the rural way of life and one in the urban and not completely at home in either. I chose to go to the University of Texas at Austin instead of Texas Tech which my dad really wanted for me and would have been a better fit. My main goal was to get out as quickly as possible and go to work. I finished school in 3 years with a degree in Math and minor in Computer Science and went to work for Texas Instruments. I have lived in several different locations in Texas but Lost Valley has always been home. My grandmother Alma King always felt that the rest of the world might be in chaos but all would be well in Lost Valley. That sense of belonging to the land does not wane with age but, perhaps, becomes stronger. It is more of a sense of you belonging to the land rather than the land belonging to you.