A Texas Cowboy S Journal

Author : Jack Bailey,David Dary
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806182278

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A Texas Cowboy's Journal by Jack Bailey,David Dary Pdf

In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War. We follow Bailey as the drive moves northward into Kansas and then as his party returns to Texas through eastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri, northwestern Arkansas, and Indian Territory. For readers steeped in romantic cowboy legend, the journal contains surprises. Bailey’s time on the trail was hardly lonely. We travel with him as he encounters Indians, U.S. soldiers, Mexicans, freed slaves, and cowboys working other drives. He and other crew members—including women—battle hunger, thirst, illness, discomfort, and pain. Cowboys quarrel and play practical jokes on each other and, at night, sing songs around the campfire. David Dary’s thorough introduction and footnotes place the journal in historical context.

Author : Jack Bailey
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806137371

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A Texas Cowboy's Journal by Jack Bailey Pdf

Presents the day-to-day journal of Jack Bailey, a nineteenth-century North Texas farmer, in which he chronicles his experiences as a cowboy in the southern plains, and travels with his herd to Kansas.

Author : Bruce A. Glasrud,Michael N. Searles
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806156491

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Black Cowboys in the American West by Bruce A. Glasrud,Michael N. Searles Pdf

Who were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as wranglers, riders, ropers, bulldoggers, and bronc busters. They came from varied backgrounds—some grew up in slavery, while free blacks often got their start in Texas and Mexico. Most who joined the long trail drives were men, but black women also rode and worked on western ranches and farms. The first overview of the subject in more than fifty years, Black Cowboys in the American West surveys the life and work of these cattle drivers from the years before the Civil War through the turn of the twentieth century. Including both classic, previously published articles and exciting new research, this collection also features select accounts of twentieth-century rodeos, music, people, and films. Arranged in three sections—“Cowboys on the Range,” “Performing Cowboys,” and “Outriders of the Black Cowboys”—the thirteen chapters illuminate the great diversity of the black cowboy experience. Like all ranch hands and riders, African American cowboys lived hard, dangerous lives. But black drovers were expected to do the roughest, most dangerous work—and to do it without complaint. They faced discrimination out west, albeit less than in the South, which many had left in search of autonomy and freedom. As cowboys, they could escape the brutal violence visited on African Americans in many southern communities and northern cities. Black cowhands remain an integral part of life in the West, the descendants of African Americans who ventured west and helped settle and establish black communities. This long-overdue examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black cowboys ensures that they, and their many stories and experiences, will continue to be known and told.

Author : Mark Lause
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786631985

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The Great Cowboy Strike by Mark Lause Pdf

Although later made an icon of "rugged individualism," the American cowboy was a grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal worker, who waged a series of militant strikes in the generally isolated and neglected corners of the Old West. Mark Lause examines those neglected labour conflicts, couching them in the context of the bitter and violent "range wars" that broke out periodically across the region, and locating both among the political insurgencies endemic to the American West in the so-called Gilded Age.

Author : Carolyn Brown
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402296123

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One Texas Cowboy Too Many by Carolyn Brown Pdf

"A delightful story with a charming, laid-back cowboy and a good blend of humor and sexy tension makes this one entertaining read."—RT Book Reviews, 4 1⁄2 stars, TOP PICK! It's Romeo & Juliet meets the Hatfields & the McCoys in New York Times and USA Today bestseller Carolyn Brown's delightful and wildly romantic third contemporary cowboy romance in the Burnt Boot, Texas series. Leah Brennan has always been the good girl of the Brennan family, groomed to become the matriarch of the clan. When a dark-eyed, tattooed, ponytailed bad boy saunters into her life, Leah knows he's off-limits—but his mesmerizing gaze makes her forget everything she used to think was important. As town-wide tension rises, Leah wonders if love really can conquer all... When Rhett O'Donnell roars into Burnt Boot on a hot July evening, the first thing he sees is a beautiful blonde. She puts a little extra giddy-up in his heartbeat, but when Rhett's desire throws him into the middle of a love triangle and a hundred-year-old feud, he realizes that winning his cowgirl's heart will be a lot more complicated than he thought. Burnt Boot, Texas series: Cowboy Boots for Christmas (Book 1) The Trouble with Texas Cowboys (Book 2) One Texas Cowboy Too Many (Book 3) A Cowboy Christmas Miracle (Book 4) Praise for The Trouble with Texas Cowboys: "Touching and heartwarming, and completely believable...[the] characters are hilarious, colorful, and eccentric as ever; what a treat to be back in Burnt Boot!" —Fresh Fiction "Ruggedly handsome cowboys...a plucky heroine...humorous, heartwarming storytelling...infectious banter...a solid, well-crafted plot...and the chemistry sizzles. One entertaining read." —RT Book Reviews 4 stars

Author : Travis D. Stimeling Ph.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199831913

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Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks by Travis D. Stimeling Ph.D. Pdf

Country music of late 1960s and early 1970s was a powerful symbol of staunch conservative resistance to the flowering hippie counterculture. But in 1972, the city of Austin, Texas became host to a growing community of musicians, entrepreneurs, journalists, and fans who saw country music as a part of their collective heritage and sought to reclaim it for their own progressive scene. These children of the Cold War, post-World War II suburban migration, and the Baby Boom escaped the socially conservative world their parents had created, to instead create for themselves an idyllic rural Texan utopia. Progressive country music--a hybrid of country music and rock--played out the contradictions at work among the residents of the growing Austin community: at once firmly grounded in the conservative Texan culture in which they had been raised and profoundly affected by the current hippie counterculture. In Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene, Travis Stimeling connects the local Austin culture and the progressive music that became its trademark. He presents a colorful range of evidence, from behavior and dress, to newspaper articles, to personal interviews of musicians as diverse as Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Doug Sahm. Along the way, Stimeling uncovers parodies of the cosmic cowboy image that reinforce the longing for a more peaceful way of life, but that also recognize an awareness of the muddled, conflicted nature of this counterculture identity. Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks brings new insight into the inner workings of Austin's progressive country music scene -- by bringing the music and musicians brilliantly to life. This book will appeal to students and scholars of popular music studies, musicology and ethnomusicology, sociology, cultural studies, folklore, American studies, and cultural geography; the lucid prose and interviews will also make the book attractive to fans of the genre and artists discussed within. Austin residents past and present, as well as anyone with an interest in the development of progressive music or today's 'alt.country' movement will find Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks an informative, engaging resource.

Author : Guy Logsdon
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0252064887

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"The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" and Other Songs Cowboys Sing by Guy Logsdon Pdf

"One of the finest works to come out in recent years on cowboy songs, in addition to being the first good collection of the cowboy's bawdy material. . . . A must for anyone who is a student of cowboy music--or anyone who just likes the sound of dirty subject matter rhyming." -- Hal Cannon, Journal of Country Music "A brave and honest step toward increasing our understanding of what cowboys really sing." -- Bob Bovee, Old Time Herald "A thorough piece of scholarship and collectanea and a valuable, welcome addition to cowboy song literature." -- Keith Cunningham, Mid-America Folklore "Logsdon has written the book with a scholar's attention to detail. But what shows through the scholarship is the collector's enthusiasm for the material. . . . A superb job in a difficult area." -- Angus Kress Gillespie, Journal of American History "A major contribution to the folklore and popular culture, history, and social psychology of American cowboy culture." -- Kenneth S. Goldstein, former president, American Folklore Society

Author : Sara R. Massey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 158544443X

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Black Cowboys Of Texas by Sara R. Massey Pdf

Offers twenty-four essays about African American men and women who worked in the Texas cattle industry from the slave days of the mid-19th century through the early 20th century.

Author : John R. Erickson
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574410245

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LZ Cowboy by John R. Erickson Pdf

This contemporary cowboy journal reveals the rituals and labors of daily cowboy life in the Texas Panhandle, from 1979-1981. The author, nationally known for his Hank the Cowdog series, continues to recount stories about the well known characters and places of his previous works. The hard times of struggling through a depressed cattle market, drought, sickness, injuries, and inclement weather are balanced with humorous tales of steer and human antics. Contains a short glossary of cowboy terms. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Carolyn Brown
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402296109

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Trouble with Texas Cowboys by Carolyn Brown Pdf

"Funny, frank, and full of heart." -USA Today Happy Ever After on One Hot Cowboy Wedding Can a girl ever have too many cowboys? No sooner does pint-sized spitfire Jill Cleary set foot on Fiddle Creek Ranch than she finds herself in the middle of a hundred-year-old feud. Quaid Brennan and Tyrell Gallagher are both tall, handsome, and rich...and both are courting Jill to within an inch of her life. She's doing her best to give these feuding ranchers equal time-too bad it's dark-eyed Sawyer O'Donnell who makes her blood boil and her hormones hum... Praise for The Cowboy's Mail Order Bride: "Another heartwarming read from the amazing Carolyn Brown...overflowing with romance and laughter." -Night Owl Reviews Reviewer Top Pick "Will leave readers swooning and wishing they had their very own cowboy." -RT Book Reviews, 4 stars "Another scrumptious, heartwarming story by author extraordinaire Carolyn Brown." -Romance Junkies

Author : Paul H Carlson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752496474

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Cowboy Way by Paul H Carlson Pdf

The lives of American cowboys have been both real and mythic. This work explores cowboy music dress, humour, films and literature in sixteen essays and a bibliography. These essays demonstrate that the American cowboy is a knight of the road who, with a large hat, tall boots and a big gun, rode into legend and into the history books.

Author : Marie W. Dallam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190856571

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Cowboy Christians by Marie W. Dallam Pdf

Cowboy Christians examines the long history of cowboy Christianity in the American West, with a focus on the present-day cowboy church movement. Based on five years of historical and sociological fieldwork in cowboy Christian communities, this book draws on interviews with leaders of cowboy churches, traveling rodeo ministries, and chaplains who serve horse racing and bull riding communities, along with the author's first-hand experiences as a participant observer. Marie W. Dallam traces cowboy Christianity from the postbellum period into the twenty-first century, looking at religious life among cowboys on the range as well as its representation in popular imagery and the media. She examines the structure, theology, and perpetuation of the modern cowboy church, and speculates on future challenges the institution may face, such as the relegation of women to subordinate participant roles at a time of increasing gender equality in the larger society. She also explores the cowboy Christian proclivity for blending the secular and the sacred in leisure environments like arenas, racetracks, and rodeos. Dallam locates the modern cowboy church as a descendant of the muscular Christianity movement, the Jesus movement, and new paradigm church methodology. Cowboy Christians establishes the religious significance of the cowboy church movement, particularly relative to twenty-first-century evangelical Protestantism, and contributes to a deeper understanding of the unique Christianity of the American West.

Author : Clifford Peter Westermeier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Cowboys
ISBN : UVA:X000440863

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Trailing the Cowboy by Clifford Peter Westermeier Pdf

Author : John R. Erickson
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1574411209

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Some Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys by John R. Erickson Pdf

Erickson's articles and essays have been published in Texas Highways, Livestock Weekly, The Dallas Morning News, The Dallas Times Herald, and American Cowboy . This collection is arranged by Place; From Buffalo to Cattle; The Cowboy; Cowboy Tools; Ranch and Rodeo; Animals; and This and That. Many of the pieces are anecdotal, based on Erickson's experiences and observations on ranches. Others required some research and are more historical. Some are essays in which Erickson views contemporary life through the lens of cowboying. But all of them are vintage master storyteller John Erickson, told with humor and thoughtfulness.

Author : Jacqueline M. Moore
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814763414

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Cow Boys and Cattle Men by Jacqueline M. Moore Pdf

Winner of the 2010 T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award Cowboys are an American legend, but despite their ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing the class, gender, and labor histories of ranching in Texas during the second half of the nineteenth century. As working-class men, cowboys showed their masculinity through their skills at work as well as public displays in town. But what cowboys thought was manly behavior did not always match those ideas of the business-minded cattlemen, who largely absorbed middle-class masculine ideals of restraint. Moore explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans considered the most masculine. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.