The Three-Fingered Pinch

About the Book

Three-fingered pinch, known in New Mexico as the Carlsbad crease, in the Indian nations as the Seminole crease, and in modern times as the Gus crease after the hat the actor Robert Duvall wore in the miniseries Lonesome Dove. At the time of this story, the crease was an indication that the rider was from New Mexico. The style is believed to come into being around Carlsbad, New Mexico, in the 1870s.

About the Author

Donald E. Tripp was born a month prematurely on October 4, 1951, at five pounds, eight ounces and promptly lost twelve ounces. He was promptly placed in an incubator and thus survived. He rode his first horse at eleven years old in spite of his overprotective mother's demand that he not and retrained his first spoiled horse at the age of fifteen. He has been a small-town newspaper reporter, horse wrangler, and drover. He now lives in Bismarck, North Dakota, among the people he writes about.