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The Cowboy's Own Brand Book

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I bought this book after getting reacquainted with western dinnerware, specificially Wallace China's Rodeo and Boots & Saddles series. I'd seen them in restaurants when my parents took me on vacation in the West in the 1950s and now I was rediscovering them through online auctions.
The plates, cups, saucers, bowls and platters are ringed with cattle brands and I turned to Amazon.com for a reference book to help me with this distinctively American form of communication.
The language of brands - and it is a language or sorts - is simple and follows logical rules, clearly laid out in The Cowboy's Own Brand Book. It's an easy read and a quick introduction to something that's part of our heritage.

As a teacher this book is very helpful in discussing the different cattle brands in America.

quick, easy, fun and correct. instructions on how a brand is read, definitions of letters in the 'cowboys' alphabet, a very easy read. in an hour you will be able to read any brand correctly!