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Author: Alvin G. Davis
Publisher: Troll Communications
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 14
ISBN-13: 9780816722099
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes, in text and photographs, the activities and duties of a Texas cowboy on the first day of the spring roundup.
Author: George Philip
Publisher: South Dakota State Historical Society
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 565
ISBN-13: 0985290579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rattlesnakes and ornery horses, the dreaded Texas Itch, midnight rambles in graveyards, trips to Mexico, and hard riding on the last open range: George Philip recounts all these adventures and more with wit and humour. George Phillip arrived in South Dakota from Scotland in 1899. For the next four years, he rode as a cowboy for his uncle's L-7 cattle outfit during the heyday of the last open range. But the cowboy era was a brief one, and in 1903 Philip turned in his string of horses and hung up his saddle to enter law school in Michigan. In these candid letters, Philip provides fascinating insights into the development of the West and of South Dakota. His writing details the cowboy's day-to-day work, from branding and roping to navigating across the palins by stars and buttes, as the great open ranges slowly closed up.
Author: H. Alan Day
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1683503996
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“His stories are timeless lessons of living, loving, and learning the Western way of life that will inspire all generations.” —Stuart Rosebrook, author of At Work in Arizona If you’re served a piece of humble pie, thank the server and choke it down. So says H. Alan Day, an award-winning author and American cowboy, who grew up on a 200,000-acre southwestern cattle ranch, made a hand at age five, and lived adventures most of us only witness on Netflix. While interacting with cowhands, horses, and the land, Alan learned valuable life lessons about loyalty, trust, humility, forgiveness, persistence, failure, innovation, and success. Now, this cowboy is ready to share his hard-earned wisdom with those who may never own or even ride a horse, much less rope a cow, train a wild mustang, or witch a well, but who, like Alan, contend day-in and day-out with the true grit of life. Cowboy Up! is a collection of thirty-five personal stories narrated by Alan Day in his authentic western voice. These stories touch on topics that affect us all: friendship, family, business, politics, community, and conservation. As Alan learned early on, a true friend has your back for life, whether that friend has two legs or four legs. If you don’t learn to listen, you may end up swinging from your suspenders on a bunkhouse hook; and if your pickup is about to get washed away in a flash flood, you better do some quick, two-step thinking. Alan’s stories not only explore what it means to be human, they evoke laughter, disbelief, wonder, joy, and more than a few heartfelt tears. FINALIST New Mexico-Arizona Book Award FINALIST Arizona Authors Association Book Award
Author: Richard Collins
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2019-11-06
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1948908247
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the big picture to the smallest detail, Richard Collins fashions a rousing memoir about the modern-day lives of cowboys and ranchers. However, Cowboy is a Verb is much more than wild horse rides and cattle chases. While Collins recounts stories of quirky ranch horses, cranky cow critters, cow dogs, and the people who use and care for them, he also paints a rural West struggling to survive the onslaught of relentless suburbanization. A born storyteller with a flair for words, Collins breathes life into the geology, history, and interdependency of land, water, and native and introduced plants and animals. He conjures indelible portraits of the hardworking, dedicated people he comes to know. With both humor and humility, he recounts the day-to-day challenges of ranch life such as how to build a productive herd, distribute your cattle evenly across a rough and rocky landscape, and establish a grazing system that allows pastures enough time to recover. He also intimately recounts a battle over the endangered Gila topminnow and how he and his neighbors worked with university range scientists, forest service conservationists, and funding agencies to improve their ranches as well as the ecological health of the Redrock Canyon watershed. Ranchers who want to stay in the game don’t dominate the landscape; instead, they have to continually study the land and the animals it supports. Collins is a keen observer of both. He demonstrates that patience, resilience, and a common-sense approach to conservation and range management are what counts, combined with an enduring affection for nature, its animals, and the land. Cowboy is a Verb is not a romanticized story of cowboy life on the range, rather it is a complex story of the complicated work involved with being a rancher in the twenty-first-century West.
Author: Trish Charleston
Publisher:
Published: 2019-04-16
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781090982155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Cowboy's Wife, My Favorite F Words," is a compilation of short stories, old and new. It's intended to be individual stories, but with the same ongoing characters whom I hope you will grow to know and love. It can be read cover to cover, section by section or individually. Let's be honest, it's a wonderful book to set by your toilet. You can do your business, read a funny story, get a little Jesus in your life to start your day off right and sometimes when you read it, you might pee a little from laughing so a toilet close-by would be handy. Trish Charleston is a city girl who went country when she married The Cowboy of her dreams. She got mad one day after working for twenty-five years as a paralegal and quit her job. She called The Cowboy thinking he would be upset, but instead, he said, "Perfect! You can run the farm." So she began her career as top ranch hand and manager of K&T Cattle Company, a family owned and operated breeding bull business. She began to learn her way around the farm; she found humor in all of it. Well, Trish gave new life to old-time work and sold it to the world as a fun and funny adventure. To maintain some contact with humans, she began posting her funny stories on Facebook. Her following grew, both in and out of the agricultural community and people started telling her she needed to write a blog she took their advice and A Day In The Life of The Cowboy's Wife was born. Now with several thousand followers, and because, "the circus waits for no one," she's written her first book, "My Favorite F Words." Trish's colorful writing style, hilarious sense of humor, a flair for storytelling and evident love for Jesus, her Cowboy, and her children, she will have you laughing, crying and identifying with her. She will inspire you to crave a better relationship with Jesus. WARNING...Do not be drinking while reading because you might blow liquids of all kinds, out of your nose. Thanks for reading.
Author: Owen D Roane
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2003-09
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1594670641
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard W. Slatta
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780393314731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over 450 entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth of both North and South America.
Author: Ike Blasingame
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1964-01-01
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780803250154
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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: Elmer Kelton
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: 2008-02-05
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781429912921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The time is 1883,the place is the Texas Panhandle. Cowboys refuse to be stigmatized as drinkers and exploited by the wealthy cattle owners who don't pay liveable wages. Those very same ranchers want to take away the cowboys' right to own cattle because this ownership, the ranchers believe, would lead to thieving. So, in 1883, the dictum is set: If you're a cowboy, you can't own a cow. When rumors of such legislation travel from wagon to wagon, the cowboys decided to rally and fight for their rights--they gather together and strike. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: G. Neri
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2011-08-09
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0763654493
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A street-smart tale about a displaced teen who learns to defend what's right-the Cowboy Way. When Cole’s mom dumps him in the mean streets of Philadelphia to live with the dad he’s never met, the last thing Cole expects to see is a horse, let alone a stable full of them. He may not know much about cowboys, but what he knows for sure is that cowboys aren’t black, and they don’t live in the inner city. But in his dad’s ’hood, horses are a way of life, and soon Cole’s days of skipping school and getting in trouble in Detroit have been replaced by shoveling muck and trying not to get stomped on. At first, all Cole can think about is how to ditch these ghetto cowboys and get home. But when the City threatens to shut down the stables-- and take away the horse Cole has come to think of as his own-- he knows that it’s time to step up and fight back. Inspired by the little-known urban riders of Philly and Brooklyn, this compelling tale of latter -day cowboy justice champions a world where your friends always have your back, especially when the chips are down.
