Happy man
The happy man
Robert Olney Easton
- Albuquerque, NM University of New Mexico Press 1977
- 221 p
To find a place -- Arky Billy and the Duke -- The happy man -- The silver bullet -- Jim Magee's sand -- Women and dynamite -- Nobody danced -- Dynamite's day off -- The wind of Pelican Island -- All in a day -- Death in October.
The book grew out of the author's own experiences as a ranch hand in the Sacramento River Delta country northeast of San Francisco. Thoroughly enjoyable reading, it is also a valuable description of the modern cattle industry, which, as Easton puts it, does not so much raise cattle as manufacture them, turning "beef into dollars as fast as Henry Ford turned cars off the assembly line"