The Cowboy Way,9780896725836

The Cowboy Way

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780896725836
ISBN10: 0896725839
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-05-30
Publisher(s): Texas Tech Univ Pr
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Summary

Sixteen essays explore cowboy music, dress, humor, films, and literature. Some examine the cowboy's powerful symbolic life. Others look at African American, Hispanic, Native American, French, and English cowboys, the great cowboy strike of 1883, and even the origins of the term cowboy itself. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Myth and the Modern Cowboy
1(10)
Paul H. Carlson
Cowboy: Origin and Early Use of the Term
11(10)
James R. Wagner
Vaqueros in the Western Cattle Industry
21(12)
Jorge Iber
Black Cowboy: Daniel Webster ``80 John'' Wallace
33(12)
Douglas Hales
Indian Cowboys of the Northern Plains
45(18)
Thomas A. Britten
English Cowboy: The Early of Aylesford in the American West
63(14)
Jim Fenton
The Cowboy Strike of 1883
77(18)
Robert E. Zeigler
Work Clothes of American Cowboys: The Pictorial Record
95(14)
Susan Karina Dickey
Cowboys and Sheepherders
109(10)
Paul H. Carlson
Stockyards Cowboys
119(12)
J'Nell L. Pate
Cowboy Humor
131(10)
Kenneth W. Davis
Cowboy Songs and Nature in the Late Nineteenth Century
141(14)
Robert G. Weiner
Rodeo Cowboy: ``Booger Red'' Privett and the Origins of Rodeo
155(12)
J. Boyd Trolinger
French Cowboys: The Gardians of the Camargue and Buffalo Bill
167(12)
Judy Greaves Rainger
Reel Cowboys: Cowhands and Western Movies
179(22)
Albert B. Tucker
Today's Cowboy: Coping with a Myth
201(8)
Lawrence Clayton
A Cowboy Bibliography 209(8)
Freedonia Paschall
About the Authors 217(4)
Index 221

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