Author: Will JamesPublisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN:
Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Cowboys North and South
Author: Will JamesPublisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN:
Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Cowboys of the Americas
Author: Richard W. SlattaPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300056716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Lavishly illustrated with photographs, paintings, and movie stills, this Western Heritage Award-winning book explores what life was actually like for the working cowboy in North America. "If you read only one book on cowboys, read this one".--Journal of the Southwest.
Big-enough
Author: Will JamesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780878423699
Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A delightful tale for adults and children alike, BIG- ENOUGH is the story of a cowboy and a cow horse, born on the same day, who together grow "big-enough for most anything." Young Billy was a born cowboy - unfortunately, his parents have other aspirations for him and send him off to be "educated and turned into something else." But one day Billy takes his horse, Big- Enough, and departs to pursue his true destiny, finding adventure, adversity, and, ultimately, manhood. BIG- ENOUGH is a coming-of-age-in-the-West novel of the highest quality, capturing the spirit of a young cowboy, his best horse, and the American West itself.
Will James' Book of Cowboy Stories
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A collection of cowboy stories written and illustrated by an authentic cowboy, Will James.
The Drifting Cowboy
Author: Will JamesPublisher: Tumbleweed (Paperback)
ISBN: 9780878423262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First publishing in 1925, the seven stories collected here revolve around the adventures of a lanky cowboy named Bill, whose drifting takes him throughout the West as he lives the hard life of a working cowboy.
Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers
Author: Richard W. SlattaPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806129716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
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.
Dakota Cowboy
Author: Ike BlasingamePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803250154
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
"I've known about Ike Blasingame all my life, knew many of his fellow punchers, white and Indian. Ike was certainly a salty representative of the Texas bronc twister when he came North with that most romantic of cow outfits, the British-owned Matador. . . . [He] takes the reader across the treacherous Missouri River as the spring-softened ice goes out under the horses' feet, into the still wild cow towns, through the round-ups, the prairie fires. . . . There is the authentic smell and feel of the Northern cow country of fifty years ago in the story Ike Blasingame tells."-Mari Sandoz"Here is one of the most gripping Western tales since Andy Adams' The Log of a Cowboy was published in 1903. The telling is considerably like Adams'-warm, human, flavorful. The author, a one-time Matador ranch cowboy, . . . lived his story, and he tells it straight in the language of the cow country without contrivance."-New York Times"Many of the cowboys who have written about their experiences never really looked at any wider segment of the cattle business than was visible between their horses' ears, but Ike Blasingame did. He paints a big picture without omitting details."-New York Herald-Tribune
The Cowboy Encyclopedia
Author: Richard W. SlattaPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393314731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Over 450 entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth of both North and South America.
Sand
Author: Will JamesPublisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780878423521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
When Tilden fails to reboard the train on time, he is stranded in Montana, and he meets a group of cowboys who tell him about a wild black stallion. He becomes determined to catch the horse in order to impress Rita, the daughter of a rancher.
Cotton Bowl Days
Author: John EisenbergPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684831201
Category : Football fans
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A lifelong Dallas Cowboy fan, the author presents a look at growing up with his favorite men, profiling the then-young team's players, their city, and the Cotton Bowl.