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Foreword vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 ONE My Early Days 9 TWO My First Paying Job 26 THREE I Head West 32 FOUR A Runaway Wife 40 FIVE I Land in the Duke’s City 46 SIX Parker Kidnaps Anita 50 Photographs after page 52 SEVEN Into the Rooming-House Business 53 EIGHT I Marry My Second Husband 60 NINE I Realize My Big Ambition 63 TEN Running Two Ranches 73 ELEVEN Whiskey-Making and the Bishop’s Visit 78 TWELVE Getting Along with the Neighbors 82 THIRTEEN Winters Alone 91 ❙ CONTENTS ❙ ❙ CONTENTS ❙ FOURTEEN Cowboys and Cattle Drives 94 FIFTEEN Single Again 97 SIXTEEN Adventures Trucking 100 SEVENTEEN I Build a Roadhouse 106 EIGHTEEN Adventures of a Deputy Sheriff 114 NINETEEN Turkey Farming 120 TWENTY I Try Real Estate 122 TWENTY-ONE In Taos with Doughbelly Price 124 TWENTY-TWO Taos People and How I Stretched the City Limits 129 TWENTY-THREE My Circle Expands 137 TWENTY-FOUR I Build on South Santa Fe Highway 143 Afterword 149 vi ...

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