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Show Pearl Baker Book Tells of Robbers Roost Robbers Roost, the hard-to-get-at badlands region best known in western lore as the . sanctuary of the Butch Cassidy " Wild Bunch, came to be a cattle ranch in the early part of 4 this century. A woman who grew up there writes of her father's effort to establish the ranch in Robbers Roost Recollections. The newest publication of . the Utah State University Press is illustrated with photographs and drawings . reminisicent of the working cow outfit. Its author is Pearl Baker, who now operates a gift and book shop in Green River. The story, though, is in many respects a biography of Joe Biddlecome, Pearl's father, fath-er, who moved his cow herd, his wife and little girl into the area in 1909. The only sign of habitation was a cabin that had been built and then burned. The Wild Bunch had often visited the former inhabitants of the cabin, Joe told his wife. The book tells the story of Biddlecome's struggle to turn the sparse country into a successful cattle ranch. It also gives an authentic picture of the life of the time--such I things as the customs of a cow camp, working and using rawhide and horsehair for equipment, handling cattle , and horses. The book is available from the Utah State University Press, Logan, 84322. |