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Black Range Tales Chronicling Sixty Years Of Life And Adventure In The Southwest

James A McKenna

""Black Range Tales"" is a collection of stories chronicling the life and adventures of James A. McKenna in the American Southwest over the course of sixty years. McKenna, a cowboy, rancher, and lawman, shares his experiences in vivid detail, from his early days as a young man working on ranches to...

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The MeatEater Podcast

It was described as mostly memoirs and recollections of a prospector and miner active in the 1880s in New Mexico, who recounted looting a Pueblo site and finding a mummified body there. The book also contains accounts of his hunting experiences, mentioning 50-pound turkeys.

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He always, he always likes to cringe when I say it's his favorite book, but, uh, he turned, there's a book called black range tales.

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It was described as mostly memoirs and recollections of a prospector and miner active in the 1880s in New Mexico, who recounted looting a Pueblo site and finding a mummified body there. The book also contains accounts of his hunting experiences, mentioning 50-pound turkeys.

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He always, he always likes to cringe when I say it's his favorite book, but, uh, he turned, there's a book called black range tales.

It's, it's mostly like the memoirs and recollections of a minor, a prospector and minor who was active in the 1880s down in New Mexico, in the black range, but all around that area.

What's funny about it is the first pay. Oh, I can't say this. Nevermind. Nevermind.

he talks about 50 pound turkeys in that book.

It was sitting in some window at a curio shop in some town in Arizona or New Mexico. I can't remember where.

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