Author : Fay E. Ward
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2003-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486426990
Want to know how to throw a half-diamond hitch and wield a branding iron? Interested in the recipe for S. B. stew? This authoritative manual by an old-time cowboy explains it all. 600 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Fay E. Ward
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2013-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0486146235
Want to know how to throw a half-diamond hitch and wild a branding iron? Interested in the recipe for S. B. stew? This authoritative manual by an old-time cowboy explains it all. 600 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Fred Gipson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2000-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780890969847
Readers brought up on Hollywood westerns will have their eyes opened by this story of a working cowboy. Although he never chased a rustler or rescued a pretty girl and probably couldn't even hire on as an extra in a B-grade western, Ed Alford (or "Fat") has worked cattle most of his life. Fred Gipson's vivid, earthy book about this cowhand, now in paperback, tells what the job is really like, the hardships, the hell-raising, and the sheer monotony of daily tasks.Fat Alford became a cowboy because he didn't think picking cotton was any way for a man to make a living. Although he may not have looked much like a cowboy and certainly started out green, he learned to rope a cow in an impenetrable brush, to break a mean horse, to get by with poor gear, worse food, and sorry mounts in freezing cold or blistering heat and still get the job done.Gipson's warm and rousing account captures the vivid reality of how it was and introduces us to a remarkable character--a working cowhand. This new paperback edition of Cowhand is sure to delight a whole new generation of readers.
Author : William Reynolds
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Cowboys
ISBN : 9781423618331
Revised to include presidential hats, new celebrity hats, and a fully updated resource listing of custom hatters. The Cowboy Hat Book features an impressive array of cowboy hats, showcasing the wide variety of styles, colors, and fabrics used to create the cowboy hat, now a symbol of America and western culture that is recognized all over the world. Beginning with a brief history of the cowboy hat, the authors go on to explain the building of the perfect hat, its care and feeding, hat etiquette, hat hair, and more. Beautiful photos of real cowboys and movie cowboys sporting their trademark hats illustrate how creases, brims, shapes, and trims are unique to the individual who wears each hat. The Cowboy Hat Book celebrates the history and importance of this unique piece of clothing that hasn't fundamentally changed in more than 100 years. Ritch Rand's family has been making handcrafted hats for over twenty years. His hats have rested on dozen's of famous heads-from presidents to kings and heads of state to movie stars. He lives in Billings, Montana. William Reynolds is president and CEO of the marketing, PR, and advertising agency Banning Company, Inc. The company has a special division that services the western and equine industries. He lives in Malibu, California.
Author : Ray Holmes
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806135038
In Working Cowboy, Margot Liberty and Barry Head present the oral history of Ray Holmes, a Wyoming cowboy born in 1911. Holmes has spent his life on horseback, herding cattle and doing other work with livestock. Since the time he rode his first horse, Holmes wanted nothing more than to be a cowboy--though his father insisted he would never make a living at it. The determination that started him on his dream has stayed with him throughout his life. Holmes remains a quiet man, averse to bragging but is candid and strongly opinionated. Practical chapters, such as “Some Talk about Cowboys” and “Some Talk about Calves and Calving,” alternate with chapters describing Holmes’s colorful life, including his coping with the blizzard of 1959, listening to the very first radio in the neighborhood, and sleeping with potatoes to keep them from freezing.
Author : Michaele Dufresne
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Dogs
ISBN : 9781584537977
Jack wants to be a cowboy, so he needs all the right equipment.
Author : Richard W. Slatta
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393314731
Over 450 entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth of both North and South America.
Author : Kendall Nelson
Publisher :
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780967744018
Contemporary cowboy life is masterfully revealed in this new book of large-format duotone photographs.
Author : Jim Arndt
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : 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
Author : Michele Morris
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 31,47 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780671866822
From nuggets of sage advice--"Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction"--to campfire fare, Morris presents the truth about America's most enduring and intriguing "life-style". Features lists of the best rodeos, dude ranches, trail rides, and festivals. 67 photos. 51 line drawings.
