Getting by in Hard Times: Letters from the Pitchfork Ranch, 1938-1939

By Scott White

This book provides a rare look at the day-to-day details of running the Pitchfork Ranch during the late 1930s. Letters of brothers Eugene F. Williams and J. Gates Williams and of Virgil V. Parr illuminate the great challenges faced by the ranch owners and manager at a time when the rest of the country was trying to recover from the Great Depression and severe drought.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467546887
• ISBN13: 9781467546881
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: National Ranching Heritage Center
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 12.1"