The Old Cowboys

Author : William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496740045

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Old Cowboys Never Die by William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone Pdf

From the legendary, bestselling authors of Forever Texas comes a thrilling, action-packed novel that proves old cowboys not only get wiser with age – they get bolder and tougher too… After thirty hard years of chasing stampedes into storms and pushing herds of half-crazy cows across the plains, longtime buddies and cattle drivers Casey Tubbs and Eli Doolin are ready to hang up their spurs. But when they get to Abilene with their final delivery of two thousand cows, the company lawyer has skipped town with their crew’s entire wages. That means there’s just one last job Eli and Casey will have to do… Steal it back. Sure, pulling off a robbery is a new challenge for these old boys. But they’ve learned a lot of tricks over the years —and they’re one hell of a team. Between the two of them, they devise a scheme to hold up the lawyer on the noon train and deliver the money to the men who earned it. Except after pulling off the perfect crime—and getting away with it—an honest, peaceful retirement stops sounding so good. Casey and Eli start thinking they may have missed their calling in life. This could be the start of a whole new career . . . as outlaws. “Superb from start to finish. An instant classic. “ —New York Times Bestselling Author Marc Cameron on Forever Texas

Author : Tricia Martineau Wagner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762767427

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Black Cowboys of the Old West by Tricia Martineau Wagner Pdf

The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses—men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the black cowboys who made up one-fourth of the wranglers and rodeo riders. This book tells their story. When the Civil War ended, black men left the Old South in large numbers to seek a living in the Old West—industrious men resolved to carve out a life for themselves on the wild, roaming plains. Some had experience working cattle from their time as slaves; others simply sought a freedom they had never known before. The lucky travelled on horseback; the rest, by foot. Over dirt roads they went from Alabama and South Carolina to present-day Texas and California up north through Kansas to Montana. The Old West was a land of opportunity for these adventurous wranglers and future rodeo champions. A long overdue testament to the courage and skill of black cowboys, Black Cowboys of the Old West finally gives these courageous men their rightful place in history. Praise for an earlier book by the same author: “Whether you are a history enthusiast or a lover of adventure stories, African American Women of the Old West presents the reader with fascinating accounts of ten extraordinary, generally unrecognized, African Americans. Tricia Martineau Wagner takes these remarkable women from the footnotes of history and brings them to life.” —Ed Diaz, President of the Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation

Author : David Rickman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486250014

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Cowboys of the Old West Coloring Book by David Rickman Pdf

37 detailed illustrations, informative captions.

Author : William Manns,Elizabeth Clair Flood
Publisher : ZON International Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cowboys
ISBN : 0939549131

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Cowboys & the Trappings of the Old West by William Manns,Elizabeth Clair Flood Pdf

Contains over five hundred-fifty illustrated photographs of stetsons, boots, spurs, saddles, chaps and other trappings of the American western cowboy and cowgirl and traces the history of the cowboy from the cattle trails of the old west to the wild west shows and rodeos.

Author : Ike Blasingame
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1964-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803250150

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Dakota Cowboy by Ike Blasingame Pdf

"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

Author : Lee Gowan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780676975833

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The Last Cowboy by Lee Gowan Pdf

In this romantic, humorous and harrowing novel, the acclaimed author of Make Believe Love returns to the epic skies and straight roads of Broken Head, Saskatchewan, and takes us into a very modern Western. Sam McMahon can’t understand why his banker colleagues in Toronto keep calling him “cowboy,” when he prefers opera to C&W and fine wine to beer. Sam’s wife is in love with his brother Vern, who has followed the family tradition and works their parents’ farm, a mixed cattle and crop operation inherited from his grandfather, Old Sam. When his wife leaves him stranded by the side of a Saskatchewan highway, Sam is rescued by a woman, Ai Lee, in a rented Toyota. Ai is a film location scout who’s searching for the perfect cliff for legendary director James Aspen’s new film, The Last Cowboy. Thirty years previously, Old Sam dreams of better days in an older West, mending fences, riding horses, raising cattle. To save young Sam, then 10 years old, from what he considers the malaise of the late-20th century, Old Sam drags him off into a blizzard on horseback. His goal is to save a lost cow and her new calf, which may or may not exist. Sam’s parents fear he’ll only manage to kill his grandson. When, only days later, the old cowboy wanders out of doors without his parka in the freezing cold, muttering about a lost boy, he’s rescued by a Native couple out in a “borrowed” car, who run afoul of the police and end up driving into their final sunset. When Ai hears their story from Sam, she thinks she’s found her perfect location. The Last Cowboy does much more than update the Western; it weaves together stories and generations and unveils, with beauty and compassion, the leap or fall that awaits us all. So I stretch back in permanent recline and do my best to travel off to a better day, a summer day back fifty years past, a few days after a big rain, so that everything was green except for the cuts in the draws where the runoff had chewed right through the grass. There was a glow to the world back then that has long since been lost. It is painfully elusive, that particular luminescence, but I sit here stubbornly trying to restore the shine of it. I begin with a sky that was as blue as the better skies now, and work my way down to the green, only a breath of a line of white dividing the earth from the heavens. -- from The Last Cowboy

Author : Sandy Powell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781510742277

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Cowboy Culture by Sandy Powell Pdf

A Photographic Look at the Old West That Is Alive and Well in California It was a thrilling time, when wagon trains and stagecoaches raced to the California goldfields – on the trail where the dust and campfire smoke met. In the shadow of the towering Sierra Nevada, the real Wild West was born. And it still lives today, in the extraordinary people who pack mule-strings into the mountains, race over mountain passes on horseback while recreating the Pony Express, and drive cattle out of the high country each fall. It lives on beneath the massive wheels of the twenty-mule-team wagons and teams of draft horses pulling historic wagons over a mountain pass. Sit back and enjoy this fascinating journey as the Old West comes alive in a book filled with unique western images, inspiring stories from the trail, memorable cowboy poetry, and some western history.

Author : Dayton O. Hyde
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1559707607

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The Pastures of Beyond by Dayton O. Hyde Pdf

No one is better suited to convey the flavor of the Old West than this authentic American original. At age 13, in the 1930s, Hyde ran away from home in Michigan to his uncle's ranch in eastern Oregon. Yamsi was one of the last great cattle ranches of the West. Soon the boy won the cowboys' respect. A natural bronco buster, he eventually became a rodeo rider, bull fighter, clown, and photographer, working all over the West with the likes of Slim Pickens, Rex Allen, and Mel Lambert. After the war, he took Yamsi over, ensuring its survival in changing times. Now, half a century later, he gives us his valedictory to that last great period of the Old West. Full of humor, rollicking stories, and love of the land, he pays homage to the cowboys, Indians, and great horses who made the West the legend it is.--From publisher description.

Author : Andy Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781531298593

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The Log of a Cowboy by Andy Adams Pdf

A classic fictional chronicle of life on the open trail, THE LOG OF A COWBOY has long been considered the best and most reliable account of real cowboy life ever written. In the years following the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Andy Adams left his home in the San Antonio Valley and took to the range. Here he charts his first journey as a bona fide cowboy, from south Texas to Montana along the western trail. Guided by his plainspoken, sure-saddled voice and the living, breathing feel of firsthand experience on every page, we relive dusty cattle drives, perilous river crossings, honor-based gunfights, and narrow escapes from buffalo stampedes, not to mention tall tales passed around the campfire and such unforgettable characters as Bull Durham and Bill Blades.

Author : Mort Künstler
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 1558535888

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Mort Kunstler's Old West by Mort Künstler Pdf

Mort Kunstler casts his lasso wide over sod busters and saddle tramps in this colorful collection of cowboy art, depicting the everyday life of both trail hands and Dog Soldiers. Full color.

Author : Patrick Dearen
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780585230375

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Last of the Old-Time Cowboys by Patrick Dearen Pdf

From true cowhands who stood tall in the saddle as the prototypes of the American myth, historian Patrick Dearen has collected priceless, spellbinding stories of a simpler era when a man's word was his bond and a cowhand rode hard and lived harder. Within the pages of this book these genuine legends who rode through a golden moment in American history live on.

Author : S. M. Evans,Sarah Carter,Bill Yeo,Glenbow Museum
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Canada, Western
ISBN : 9781552380192

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Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business by S. M. Evans,Sarah Carter,Bill Yeo,Glenbow Museum Pdf

Papers from a conference held at the Glenbow Museum in Sept. 1997.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780980201413

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The Old Cowboy's Box by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harvey Caplin,Abbie Caplin
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0764334344

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Harvey Caplin's Real Cowboys & the Old West by Harvey Caplin,Abbie Caplin Pdf

Freelance photographer Harvey Caplin recorded ranch life in the American West from the 1940s to the 1980s, before the last roundup, capturing magnificent landscapes, picturesque people, and the growing population. This selection features his images of cowboys at the vast Bell Ranch near Tucumcari, New Mexico, on the range, in camp, and working horses and cattle. Caplin went along as a trailhand during roundups, branding cattle, drives to stockyards, and the final journey to market. He patiently waited for the right time, the right light, and the right subject. See 173 of his beautiful images and revel at the grandeur of the land and drama of life played out upon it.

Author : Rob Gibson
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909912960

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Highland Cowboys by Rob Gibson Pdf

From droving to driving, heilan coos to long horns, "Highland Cowboys" explores the links between the two cattle cultures of Scotland and America through music, song, dance, and folklore. The vast number of Scots who emigrated to North America, whether through forcible eviction during the Highland Clearances or voluntarily in the hope of a better life, has been well documented. With them they took their culture, their language, their music and their skills. Cattle droving in Scotland was an established profession from the 16th century, and many such migrants took cowboy jobs in the American West. The medium of music paints a vivid picture of their social and personal lives, and describes a mutual exchange as music crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic creating strong links between the old culture and the new. This unique exploration of the cowboy culture sheds new light on the everyday life of the cattle communities.