Works
Holden authored or coauthored more than twelve books and forty-two articles and pamphlets in professional and commercial journals. He also wrote for The Handbook of Texas, including the article on the Matador Ranch. Four works focused on the Yaqui Indians. His only novel, Hill of the Rooster, published in 1956, traces the life of a woman called "Chepa" during the Yaqui rebellion of 1926-1927. Holden also wrote Teresita (1978), which describes the life of Teresa Urrea, a Mexican folk healer.
Other Holden books included:
- A Yaqui Life (coauthored in 1971 with daughter Jane Holden Kelley)
- Rollie Burns (1932)
- Spur Ranch (1934)
- A Ranching Saga: The Lives of William Electious Halsell and Ewing Halsell
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