The Creation Of The Cowboy Hero

Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786478392

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The Creation of the Cowboy Hero by Jeremy Agnew Pdf

As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy comes to us from movies and the book's main focus is his changing image in cinema. The development of the hero image and the fictional West is traced from early novels and films to the present, along with shifting audience expectations and economic pressures.

Author : William W. Savage
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806119209

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The Cowboy Hero by William W. Savage Pdf

Analyzes the modern myth of the cowboy as it appears in movies, advertising, the rodeo, and fiction, and gauges its effect on American thought

Author : Alf H. Walle
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879728124

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The Cowboy Hero and Its Audience by Alf H. Walle Pdf

"Demonstrating how the methods of popular culture scholarship can be merged with those of marketing and consumer research, a mutually beneficial strategy of analysis is showcased."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John Jennings
Publisher : West
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1552385280

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The Cowboy Legend by John Jennings Pdf

Annotation Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel. This title details the evidence that Everett Johnson a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of Wister's in Wyoming in the 1880s, was the initial and prime inspiration for Wister's cowboy.

Author : Peter Golenbock
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0446519502

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Cowboys Have Always Been My Heroes by Peter Golenbock Pdf

Many legendary players and coaches, including Roger Staubach, Tom Landry, Pete Gent, and Bob Hayes, share the story of this famous football team, which has won five Super Bowls and more games than any other team in NFL history.

Author : Richard W. Slatta
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Cowboys
ISBN : 9781402753695

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Cowboy by Richard W. Slatta Pdf

Text and photographs offer a pictorial account of cowboy life.

Author : Will Wright
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761952330

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The Wild West by Will Wright Pdf

This book, written by the author of the celebrated volume Six Guns and Society, explains why the myth of the Wild West is popular around the world. It shows how the cultural icon of the Wild West speaks to deep desires of individualism and liberty and offers a vision of social contract theory in which a free and equal individual (the cowboy) emerges from the state of nature (the wilderness) to build a civil society (the frontier community). The metaphor of the Wild West retained a commitment to some limited government (law and order) but rejected the notion of the fully codified state as too oppressive (the corrupt sheriff). Compelling and magnificently suggestive, the book unpacks one of the core icons of our time.

Author : Barbara McMahon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:630833131

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The Last Cowboy Hero by Barbara McMahon Pdf

Author : Donna Grant
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250165435

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The Christmas Cowboy Hero by Donna Grant Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant returns to Texas, where a small-town legend just might find the greatest gift of all in The Christmas Cowboy Hero... ’Tis the season for ex-Navy SEAL Clayton East to come home for the holidays—even if the mood at home is anything but festive. His father is ill. The East Ranch is in financial trouble. And now it’s on Clayton, the prodigal son, to make sure his family doesn’t lose everything. Headstrong Abby Harper is like a mother to her younger brothers, who she’s helped raise since she was a teenager. Keeping them in line is no small task while she’s also working toward her college degree. And now that one of her brothers has been arrested for stealing cattle at the East Ranch, Abby is at her wits’ end. But there is a silver lining: Clayton East. He believes in second chances, and is willing to give one to her brother this Christmas. Letting beautiful Abby—and the inescapable longing in his heart—off the hook, however, is a whole ’nother story. Could it be that the woman of this local hero’s dreams has been back at home all along? “Off-the-charts chemistry and a breath-stealing plot.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Protector

Author : John Larison
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735220461

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Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison Pdf

Named a Best Book by Entertainment Weekly, O Magazine, Goodreads, Southern Living, Outside Magazine, Oprah.com, HelloGiggles, Parade, Fodor’s Travel, Sioux City Journal, Read it Forward, Medium.com, and NPR’s All Things Considered. "A thunderclap of originality, here is a fresh voice and fresh take on one of the oldest stories we tell about ourselves as Americans and Westerners. It's riveting in all the right ways -- a damn good read that stayed with me long after closing the covers." - Timothy Egan, New York Times bestselling author of The Worst Hard Time From a blazing new voice in fiction, a gritty and lyrical American epic about a young woman who disguises herself as a boy and heads west In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbors, she cuts off her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter herself, Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's violent, capricious Governor, whose militia is also hunting Noah--dead or alive. Wrestling with her brother's outlaw identity, and haunted by questions about her own, Jess must outmaneuver those who underestimate her, ultimately rising to become a hero in her own right. Told in Jess's wholly original and unforgettable voice, Whiskey When We're Dry is a stunning achievement, an epic as expansive as America itself--and a reckoning with the myths that are entwined with our history.

Author : Joe B. Frantz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:794330379

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The American Cowboy by Joe B. Frantz Pdf

Author : Peter Golenbock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:608945873

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Cowboys Have Always Been My Heroes by Peter Golenbock Pdf

Author : Robert Nott
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476613727

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Last of the Cowboy Heroes by Robert Nott Pdf

In the world of Western films, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy have frequently been overlooked in favor of names like Roy Rogers and John Wayne. Yet these three actors played a crucial role in the changing environment of the post–World War II Western, and, in the process, made many excellent middle-budget films that are still a pleasure to watch. This account of these three Western stars’ careers begins in 1946, when Scott and McCrea committed themselves to the Western roles they would play for nearly twenty years. Murphy, who also joined them in 1946, would continue his Western career for a few years after his cohorts rode into the film sunset. Arranged chronologically, and balanced among the three actors, the text concludes with Audie Murphy’s last Western in 1967. Covering both the personal and professional lives of these three Hollywood cowboys, the book provides both their stories and the story of a Hollywood whose attitude toward the Western was in a time of transition and transformation. The text is complemented by 60 photographs and a filmography for each of the three.

Author : Charles W. Harris,Buck Rainey
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1976-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0806113413

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The Cowboy by Charles W. Harris,Buck Rainey Pdf

One of America’s unique contributions to world culture, the cowboy has captured the imagination of people everywhere. In The Cowboy: Six-Shooters, Songs, and Sex, eight renowned western writers report on what the cowboys really were like and what they are like today. Contributors detail how the cowboys lived, loved, and died, how they fared when ranchers switched from running cattle to entertaining dudes, and how the media have depicted the cowboy.

Author : Keith Ryan Cartwright
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496229496

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Black Cowboys of Rodeo by Keith Ryan Cartwright Pdf

They ride horses, rope calves, buck broncos, ride and fight bulls, and even wrestle steers. They are Black cowboys, and the legacies of their pursuits intersect with those of America’s struggle for racial equality, human rights, and social justice. Keith Ryan Cartwright brings to life the stories of such pioneers as Cleo Hearn, the first Black cowboy to professionally rope in the Rodeo Cowboy Association; Myrtis Dightman, who became known as the Jackie Robinson of Rodeo after being the first Black cowboy to qualify for the National Finals Rodeo; and Tex Williams, the first Black cowboy to become a state high school rodeo champion in Texas. Black Cowboys of Rodeo is a collection of one hundred years of stories, told by these revolutionary Black pioneers themselves and set against the backdrop of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, segregation, the civil rights movement, and eventually the integration of a racially divided country.