How to made usb pen drive a recovery tool....?, how to made usb pen drive a recovery tool....?

As I have downloaded your Recovery Assistant tool on Intel base machine now please describe the whole process to make USB pen drive a recovering tool for my Mac Book Pro as it was pre-install a Snow Lapord OS X.

What OS are you trying to make a bootable recovery for?
10.6 is not available for download and I can't see how you have a MacBook Pro with Retina that came with 10.6.8?
You can either make a recovery disk (which boots & then downloads the installer from the App store). clintonfrombirmingham linked instructions for that.
Or you can make a bootable install disk. First you download the OS from the App store & then use a command to image the installer to a USB disk.
Creating a bootable OS X installer in OS X Mavericks
http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/create-mavericks-installation-media/
10.6 should be on a DVD installer disk which can be copied to a USB disk via another method, ask if you need that.

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