| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
978.6640922 Van |
| Item number |
15 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
978.6640922 Van |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Van Cleve, Spike |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
40 years' gatherin's. |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
by Spike Van Ceve;Introduction by Dean Krankel |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Lowell Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1977 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Kansas City |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
301 p |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
His horse gear, a bedroll and a warbag containing a change or two of clothes - these worldly goods were about all the old-time ranch hand could call his own. They were prized possessions, though, and together were usually referred to as "my forty year' gatherins." The stories in this book are Spike Van Cleve's forty years' gatherins - cherished memories of rugged, honest living in the clean air and mountainous rangeland near Big Timber, Montana. Spike was born, raised and lived until he died in this land he called "the prettiest country God ever made . . .heaven can't be any better than this." There, he and his family-like his Dad and Granddad before him-ran the Van Cleve ranch, now a 20,000 acre expanse under the Crazy Mountains in south central Montana. Spike Van Cleve was a natural born storyteller who was educated at Harvard but received his "learning" on the Montana range riding his horses and doing an honest day's work. In this collection of true stories about the land, the people, the horses and the good old times, Spike shifts like the wind, as in his touching story of "Cody and Terry," when the fatal crack of Spike's rifle signals the merciful end to a close partnership between a tearful cowboy and his favorite work horses. This sensitive, poetic story earned Spike Van Cleve a Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Ranchers Montana Sweet Grass County Biography. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Cowboys Montana Sweet Grass County Biography. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Sweet Grass County (Mont.) Biography. |
| General subdivision |
Biography. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Relator code |
Introduction |
| Personal name |
Krakel, Dean |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
900 - 999 |