Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems
Title | Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Wallace McRae |
Publisher | Gibbs Smith |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2009-09 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781423609315 |
Wally McRae, a regularly featured performer at the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, has performed on a syndicated television program and at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. He is the first cowboy poet to be granted a National Heritage Award. This book contains 94 of his poems, including such classics as Reincarnation, along with 40 new poems published for the first time.Paperback; 25 black & white illustrations
Georgia Cowboy Poets
Title | Georgia Cowboy Poets PDF eBook |
Author | David Fillingim |
Publisher | Mercer University Press |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0881461830 |
"In this text, author and editor David Fillingim turns his attention to the West - West Georgia that is. This book examines how the contemporary cowboy poetry revival that sprung up in 1985 in Elko, Nevada, has borne fruit in the Peach State. First, Fillingim traces the history of cowboy poetry and its emergence as a cultural phenomenon. Then he recounts the story of how Georgia became home to a vibrant cowboy poetry scene. But the largest part of the book is an anthology of poems by some of the finest cowboy poets anywhere, and they all happen to be in Georgia." "As celebrated cowboy-poet Doris Daley says in the preface, "everywhere is west of somewhere". So settle in, and travel with Fillingim to someplace west of wherever you are, and enjoy this unique combination of shrewd scholarly analysis and heartwarming cowboy poetry." --Book Jacket.
A Ride Through Rhyme and Other Cowboy Poems
Title | A Ride Through Rhyme and Other Cowboy Poems PDF eBook |
Author | R. P. Smith (rancher.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 1995-07-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780963365125 |
Cowboy High Style
Title | Cowboy High Style PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Clair Flood |
Publisher | Gibbs Smith |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1995-03-21 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9780879056728 |
A tribute to the artistic and entrepreneurial spirit of Thomas Molesworth--a Wyoming furniture maker who, 60 years ago, outfitted famous western lodges and dude ranches--this fascinating book also introduces contemporary craftspeople who are leading the pack in today's Western revival. 140 photographs
The Cowboy Encyclopedia
Title | The Cowboy Encyclopedia PDF eBook |
Author | Richard W. Slatta |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780393314731 |
Over 450 entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth of both North and South America.
How to Be a Cowboy
Title | How to Be a Cowboy PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Arndt |
Publisher | Gibbs Smith |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2009-10-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1423612744 |
Explore every facet of being a cowboy with essays and colorful photos in this guide from the author of Buckaroo Boots and Art of the Buckle. How to be a Cowboy is a compendium of knowledge and insight, wit and wisdom, and all-around resource for every aspect of cowboy life. It includes the least you need to know about ranching, rodeoing, cooking, music, dancing, yodeling, lingo (like “dude,” “bronc,” and “hoss”), cowboy poetry, hats, boots (like boot history and how to choose a pair for yourself), spurs, shirts, horses, hats, buckles, denim, and also how to walk like a cowboy. Discover the top twenty cowboy movies and top western novels. You’ll even find advice from cowboy icon Will Rogers. “It’s the rich color camerawork that really compels, and Arndt’s classy shots of elaborately designed boots, shirts, blue jeans and hats, plus peripheral cowboy gear, are enough to make a guy chuck the 9-to-5 and head out to the wild, wild West.”—Martin Brady, BookPage
Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers
Title | Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers PDF eBook |
Author | Richard W. Slatta |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780806129716 |
Historians of the American West, perhaps inspired by NAFTA and Internet communication, are expanding their intellectual horizons across borders north and south. This collection of essays functions as a how-to guide to comparative frontier research in the Americas. Frontiers specialist Richard W. Slatta presents topics, techniques, and methods that will intrigue social science professionals and western history buffs alike as he explores the frontiers of North and South America from Spanish colonial days into the twentieth century. The always popular cowboy is joined by the fascinating gaucho, llanero, vaquero, and charro as Slatta compares their work techniques, roundups, songs, tack, lingo, equestrian culture, and vices. We visit saloons and pulperias as well as plains and pampas, and Slatta expertly compares clothing, weather, terrain, diets, alcoholic beverages, card games, and military tactics. From primary records we learn how Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans became the ranch hands, cowmen, and buckaroos of the Americas, and why their dependence on the ranch cattle industry kept them bachelors and landless peons.