Kin, Cowboys, Outlaws & Friends

by T.J. Jarrett

Val Verde County rancher, U.T. graduate, served with the Air Force Reserve 433rd Troop Carrier Wing in San Antonio. Includes many interesting aspects of Del Rio including horse-racing, biographical information on his ranch hands, working cattle and ranching, the Patton and Miers Families, Mexico ranches, the 700,000 acre San Miguel Ranch, the Santo Doming Ranch and other families in the Sonora and Del Rio area.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 2004

About the author

TJ Jarrett is a writer and software developer in Nashville, Tennessee. Her recent work has been published or is forthcoming in Poetry, African American Review, Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Callaloo, DIAGRAM, Third Coast, VQR, West Branch and others.

She has earned scholarships from Colrain Manuscript Conference, Sewanee Writer’s Conference and Vermont Studio Center; a fellowship from the Summer Literary Seminars 2012; a runner up for the 2012 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize and 2012 New Issues Poetry Prize; and her collection The Moon Looks Down and Laughs was selected as a finalist for the 2010 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry.

Her debut collection Ain’t No Grave is published with New Issues Press (2013).

Her second collection Zion (winner of the Crab Orchard Open Competition 2013) will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in the fall of 2014.

Reviews

[Drew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Written by a friend, fellow member of the Juno Family, about the era of our grandfathers and fathers, about ranching, challenges, and character—the character that is so deeply needed and no longer honored today. The book brought back so many memories of a time that is no more.