J.P.S. Brown
 "Anyway, I don't think Arturo Mendez was here to talk about logs," he said. What did he really want?" Kane asked. "To do an evil thing." "What was that?" "To release wolves in our country." Along the border of southern Arizona and Northern Mexico, a close-knit group of Anglo and Hispanic families struggle to keep their ranches alive amidst the depredations of drug lords and smugglers. Here, age-old values collide with gangs of hardened border criminals in a raw tale of action, adventure, and justice. J.P.S. Brown opens a window onto a part of the world that few have seen and even fewer have understood, offering a view of the world of cattle ranching in an area where homes are still without electricity or plumbing. Where ranches are reachable only by plane or horseback, and where neighbors are family or deadly foes. Copies of J.P.S. Brown's books may be purchased by e-mail to the author, by mail to Diane Smith at P.O. Box 1122, Florence, AZ 85232, or by telephone: 520-868-8063. |
My WorksTHE FICTION OF J.P.S. BROWN
JIM KANE: novel about an American cowboy who buys horses in Jalisco and the Sierra Madre of Mexico. THE OUTFIT: Cowboy Bert Sorrells helps gather maverick cattle on a million acre Nevada ranch for Hollywood actor. THE FORESTS OF THE NIGHT: Mexican Sierra Madre rancher tracks down predator jaguar. STEELDUST: Bill Shane raises a top horse, then has to go into Mexico to track down the thief who stole his horse and sweetheart. CINNAMON COLT: Stories of animals and cowboys in Mexico. KEEP THE DEVIL WAITING: Story of a cowboy who joins his partners to smuggle marijuana out of Mexico in small planes. THE ARIZONA SAGA: Four books about one year in the life of the Cowdens, an 1885 cattle ranching family on the Arizona border, based on the author's Sorrells family history. THE WORLD IN PANCHO'S EYE: The first ten years in the life of Mikey Summers, born into a family of Arizona cattle ranchers, 1930s Nogales, Arizona. WOLVES AT OUR DOOR: 75 year old Jim Kane who ranches on the Arizona-Sonora border and his Mexican cohorts from the Sierra Madre who were depicted in JIM KANE, THE FORESTS OF THE NIGHT,STEELDUST,AND CINNAMON COLT join the 2006 drug war in the Sierra Madre and on the border. Jim Kane
"Hemingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' immortalized the mountain people of Spain...J.P.S. Brown's may assure the same type of immortality for the cowboys of today." -St. Louis Post Dispatch This book is far and away the best ethnography of border cowboy culture ever written or ever likely to be written. It includes almost every aspect of border cowboy culture: economics, foodways, social structure and social organization, clothing, recreation, and every aspect of what it takes to raise cattle from birth to beef steak -- and all viewed through the eyes of an insider, someone who knows from experience what the hell it's all about. Fantastic job! Helluvva book. -Bernard Fontana,Southwest studies at the University of Arizona. Participant observer anthropologist. The Outfit: A Cowboy's Primer
"Just the proper blend of men, cattle and country, the kind of a cowboy novel that makes cow people nod their heads in approval, and makes cowboy "fans" shake their heads in wonder and say, 'Gee, Zane Grey sure missed a lot.'" -Persimmon Hill magazine (National Cowboy Hall of Fame.) The Fiction of J.P.S. Brown -- The library of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City keeps a collection of J.P.S. Brown's books. |
