The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

- J. Frank Dobie

The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.

- J. Frank Dobie

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

- J. Frank Dobie

Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remingto…

- J. Frank Dobie

Luck is being ready for the chance.

- J. Frank Dobie

The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.

- J. Frank Dobie

When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvati…

- J. Frank Dobie

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

- J. Frank Dobie

The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed t…

- J. Frank Dobie