Last Buckaroo (Fiction)
Mackey Hedges, Booksurge, $20, Hardcover.
By: Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza 02/01/2009
Tap McCoy, an aging buckaroo, tells about his travels from ranch to ranch as he earns his living the cowboy way. With a keen sense of humor and careful attention to detail, he relives his experiences with bucking horses, pack mules, deadly accidents, ornery bosses, barroom brawls and even some ladies of the night. Tap and his young friend Dean travel across the West in a dilapidated pickup truck. From California feedlots to Arizona’s Apache country, they live a footloose and fancy-free lifestyle most of us only dream about. This memorable book is written by a true storyteller. Cowboy devotees will like it. Guaranteed.
Comments (2)
A classic...a must read by the real deal, not some posing Montana or wannabe dink that is trying to pass off as a buckaroo, or some clinic-raised preening wuss usin' a back cinch...nope. Mackey is the real thing and you can tell by what he writes. If you read one book this year, this should be it..... Straight up good reading and goes fast - you don't want it to end. This is what REAL buckaroos did and how it was...before all the hype and all the PC garbage....
I loved the book and I especially liked the Glossary for us city folks who don't know all of the buckaroo language.
A book for all ages. Can you believe no horrible language or gross sex. I couldn't endorse it more.
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