New Cowboy

Author : Scott F. Stoddart
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476624204

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The New Western by Scott F. Stoddart Pdf

American moviegoers have long turned to the Hollywood Western for reassurance in times of crisis. During the genre's heyday, the films of John Ford, Howard Hawks and Henry Hathaway reflected a grand patriotism that resonated with audiences at the end of World War II. The tried-and-true Western was questioned by Ford and George Stevens during the Cold War, and in the 1960s directors like Sam Peckinpah and George Roy Hill retooled the genre as a commentary on American ethics during the Vietnam War. Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, the Western faded from view--until the Gulf War, when Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves (1990) and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992) brought it back, with moral complexities. Since 9/11, the Western has seen a resurgence, blending its patriotic narrative with criticism of America's place in the global community. Exploring such films as True Grit (2010) and Brokeback Mountain (2005), along with television series like Deadwood and Firefly, this collection of new essays explores how the Western today captures the dichotomy of our times and remains important to the American psyche.

Author : Kenneth J. Bindas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000470130

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The New Deal and American Society, 1933–1941 by Kenneth J. Bindas Pdf

The New Deal and American Society, 1933–1941 explores what some have labeled the third American revolution, in one concise and accessible volume. This book examines the emergence of modern America, beginning with the 100 Days legislation in 1933 through to the second New Deal era that began in 1935. This revolutionary period introduced sweeping social and economic legislation designed to provide the American people with a sense of hope while at the same time creating regulations designed to safeguard against future depressions. It was not without critics or failures, but even these proved significant in the ongoing discussions concerning the idea of federal power, social inclusion, and civil rights. Uncertainties concerning aggressive, nationalistic states like Italy, Germany, and Japan shifted the focus of FDR's administration, but the events of World War II solidified the ideas and policies begun during the 1930s, especially as they related to the welfare state. The legacy of the New Deal would resonate well into the current century through programs like Social Security, unemployment compensation, workers' rights, and the belief that the federal government is responsible for the economic well-being of its citizenry. The volume includes many primary documents to help situate students and bring this era to life. The text will be of interest to students of American history, economic and social history, and, more broadly, courses that engage social change and economic upheaval.

Author : Blake Allmendinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780195072433

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The Cowboy by Blake Allmendinger Pdf

What are the connections between cattle branding and Christian salvation, between livestock castration and square dancing, between rustling and the making of spurs and horsehair bridles in prison, between children's coloring books and cowboy poetry as it is practiced today? The Cowboy usesliterary, historical, folkloric, and pop cultural sources to document ways in which cowboys address religion, gender, economics, and literature. Arguing that cowboys are defined by the work they do, Allmendinger sets out in each chapter to investigate one form of labor (such as branding, castration,or rustling) that cowboys perform in their "work culture." He then looks at early oral poems that cowboys recited around campfires, on trail drives, at roundups, and at home in their bunkhouses, and at later poems, histories and autobiographies written by cowboys--most of which have never beforebeen studied by scholars. He discovers that these texts not only deal with work but with larger concerns, including art, morality, spirituality, and male sexuality. In addition to spotlighting little-known texts, art, and archival sources, The Cowboy examines the works of Twain, Steinbeck, Cather,Norris, Dana, McMurtry, and others, and features more than 60 historic photographs, many of which have not been published until now.

Author : Mark Ribowsky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780871407481

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The Last Cowboy: A Life of Tom Landry by Mark Ribowsky Pdf

“An eloquent, honest tribute to a sports genius.” —Publishers Weekly, Best 100 Books of 2013 As the coach during professional football’s most storied era, Tom Landry transformed the gridiron from a no-holds-barred battlefield to the highly-technical chess match it is today. With his trademark fedora and stoic facade, he was a man of faith and few words, for twenty-nine years guiding “America’s Team” from laughingstock to well-oiled machine, with an unprecedented twenty consecutive winning seasons and two Super Bowl titles. Now, more than a decade after Landry’s death, acclaimed biographer Mark Ribowsky takes a fresh look at this misunderstood legend, telling us as much about our country’s obsession with football as about Landry himself, the likes of whom we’ll never see again.

Author : Mia Brody
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Cowboy’s Bride: Steamy Mail Order Bride Western Romance by Mia Brody Pdf

The only way out of my horrible life is to become a mail order bride. But will my new cowboy husband be willing to take a chance on love? Tia I’m trying to start my life over as someone new. But with no skills or education, my options are pretty limited. Until I see the ad to become a mail order bride. Suddenly, I have hope. Maybe I can escape and live free. The only problem is I’m pretty sure my husband doesn’t like me at all. The more time I spend with him, the more I can’t help falling in love. But will my new cowboy husband break my heart? Ranger Grandpa was a diehard romantic. The kind of guy who believed in forever and soulmates. Too bad he’s made marriage a condition for inheriting the family ranch. Now I’m stuck with a mail order bride. I didn’t expect my bride to be so young and innocent. I didn’t expect this age gap or the things her curves would do to me. I certainly didn’t expect to be attracted to her. But will a beautiful, curvy woman like Tia be willing to accept a disfigured, grumpy cowboy like me? The Scott Brothers are fierce cowboys in need of mail order brides so they can claim their rightful inheritance. But that’s not the only thing these rough and dirty cowboys plan to claim! Each book in the Courage County Brides series is standalone with NO cheating and NO cliffhangers. Just a sweet, sexy HEA so you can get your swoon on.

Author : Richard W. Slatta
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0806129719

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Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers by Richard W. Slatta Pdf

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.

Author : Jack Bailey
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806147925

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A Texas Cowboy's Journal by Jack Bailey 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 : Nancy Bo Flood
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781590788936

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Cowboy Up by Nancy Bo Flood Pdf

It's morning at the rodeo. Riders are standing by. Horses are in the chutes. "Cowboy up!" the announcer calls. Then the excitement begins in this riveting collection, narrative poems give voice to the individual competitors, lively prose explains rodeo events, and evocative photographs show off the riders and ropers, the horses, bulls, and broncs. It all adds up to an unforgettable close-up view of Navajo rodeo over the course of one action-packed day.

Author : Perry Meisel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195353457

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The Cowboy and the Dandy by Perry Meisel Pdf

What is rock and roll and where does it come from? In this adventurous new study of music, literature, and culture, Perry Meisel shows how rock and roll joins Romanticism and the blues tradition by focusing on the preoccupation with boundaries that are common to both--the boundaries between freedom and irony, country and city, and cowboy and dandy. Meisel traces the emergence of rock and roll out of jazz and Romantic culture alike as he examines, in a series of juxtaposed chapters, rhythm and blues, Emerson and the cowboy, urban blues, the dandy and psychedelia, Willa Cather, Miles Davis, Virginia Woolf, and 1960s rock. In the process, Meisel shows how the presumable difference between high and mass or pop culture disappears when both turn out to have similar structures. He also reveals how canons emerge inevitably within all traditions rather than being imposed upon them from without.

Author : Don Cusic
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 081312882X

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It's the Cowboy Way! by Don Cusic Pdf

Author : Michael L. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030112643

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Hunger for the Wild by Michael L. Johnson Pdf

Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the West, and how it has changed over the centuries.

Author : Michael L. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002778284

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New Westers by Michael L. Johnson Pdf

These "New Westers", Johnson reveals, line-dance and two-step, listen to Garth Brooks and George Strait, drink beer from long-neck bottles, wear clothes ordered from Sheplers, watch rodeo on ESPN, play Wild West arcade games, eat fajitas and tacos in stuccoed Mexican cafes, collect Western art and Native American crafts, and vacation in and move to the West. "New Westers" rewrite the history and biography of the West. They reimagine the West in Cowboy sagas and poetry, Native American novels, Mexican-American drama, nature writing, revisionist films, eclectic visual artwork, and neo-traditional music. They flock to movies like Thelma and Louise, Unforgiven, and Dances with Wolves, watch mini-series like Lonesome Dove, and read bestsellers like The Crossing and All The Pretty Horses. "New Westers" are men and women who may or may not have ever hitched up a horse but who crave connection with the West. At the end of a century of urbanization, technological change, and cultural confusion, they seek a more natural home, a fuller and wider sense of place, and a deeper and more colorful personal identity. They also want to revive the dream of the mythic West - but on different terms. They overrun the Old West and yet strive to preserve it, raising troubling new concerns about the differences between the mythic and the real, between traditional and contemporary cultural influences.

Author : Paul F. Starrs
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801863511

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Let the Cowboy Ride by Paul F. Starrs Pdf

The dime novel and dude ranch, the barbecue and rodeo, the suburban ranch house and the urban cowboy—all are a direct legacy of nineteenth-century cowboy life that still enlivens American popular culture. Yet at the same time, reports of environmental destruction or economic inefficiency have motivated calls for restricted livestock grazing on public lands or even for an end to ranching altogether. In Let the Cowboy Ride, Starrs offers a detailed and comprehensive look at one of America's most enduring institutions. Richly illustrated with more than 130 photographs and maps, the book combines the authentic detail of an insider's view (Starrs spent six years working cattle on the high desert Great Basin range) with a scholar's keen eye for objective analysis.

Author : Tina Leonard
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460335246

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The Rebel Cowboy's Quadruplets by Tina Leonard Pdf

Rebel with a cause Beautiful Mackenzie Hawthorne is looking for a ranch foreman, not a husband. Good thing, because marriage isn't in injured bull rider Justin Morant's future. Justin is happy to take up the cause of saving the Hanging H ranch—and then there's the bonus of playing stand-in father to the sexy single mom's four angelic newborns. Mackenzie doesn't know what miracle brought Justin to Bridesmaids Creek, Texas, but she'd be a fool to fall for the hunky cowboy who wears his rebel status like a badge of honor. Justin's a natural with her daughters and a whiz at ranching…yet one day she knows he's going to gallop off into the sunset. Unless, of course, the marriage-minded townspeople get their hands on him!

Author : John Clayton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803206939

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The Cowboy Girl by John Clayton Pdf

In 1901, Philadelphia's celebrity female journalist stepped off a train in Blackfoot, Montana, and into a world of living legends. The miners and frontiersmen, Indians and trappers that Caroline Lockhart met there inspired this beautiful, single, strong-willed woman to live a life she had only dreamed about in what remained of the Wild West.