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This work examines the long history of cowboy Christians in the American West, focusing on the cowboy church movement of the present day and closely related ministries in racetrack and rodeo settings.
Cowboys --- Christianity --- Religious life.
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Nat Love's memoir Life and Adventures of Nat Love is one of the only firsthand accounts of an African American cowhand in the western United States from this period. Love and his parents were owned by planter Robert Love, and after Emancipation, his parents remained on Love's plantation as sharecroppers while Nat left and headed west. He found work as a cowboy, first on the Duval Ranch in the Texas panhandle, then on the Gallinger Ranch in southern Arizona. Love's narrative details his many adventures and exploits, such as being captured and shot by Pima Indians, who eventually spared his life because they sympathized with his plight as a black man. In Deadwood, Dakota Territory, he entered a rodeo, winning $200 and the nickname Deadwood Dick, a reference to a literary character from a dime novel of the day. Published in 1907, the Life and Adventures of Nat Love would help to make Love a black folk hero of the Old West.
Cowboys --- African American cowboys --- Afro-American cowboys --- Cowboys, African American --- Negroes as cowboys --- Love, Nat, --- West (U.S.)
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When the most romantic of cow outfits, the British-owned Matador, shipped out from Texas with 3,000 head of cattle bound for Dakota and the Cheyenne Indian Reservation, an observant young bronc twister named Ike Blasingame rode with them. Dakota Cowboy-which the New York Times calls "warm, human, flavorful"-is the story of Ike's eight years (1904-1912) on the last of the great open ranges. Its pages "take the reader across the treacherous Missouri as the spring-softened ice goes out under the horses' feet, into the still wild cow towns, through the roundups, the prairie fire
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Louise Serpa was a trailblazing woman photographer. The first woman to be sanctioned to shoot photographs inside pro rodeo grounds, she was also a feisty cowgirl with a style all her own. Her work helped make the careers of many cowboys and her story is a classic tale of Western spunk and achievement.
Women photographers --- Photography --- Photography --- Rodeos --- Cowboys --- Serpa, Louise L.
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In the American imagination, no figure is more central to national identity and the nation's origin story than the cowboy. Yet the Americans and Europeans who settled the U.S. West learned virtually everything they knew about ranching from the indigenous and Mexican horsemen who already inhabited the region. The charro-a skilled, elite, and landowning horseman-was an especially powerful symbol of Mexican masculinity and nationalism. After the 1930s, Mexican Americans in cities across the U.S. West embraced the figure as a way to challenge their segregation, exploitation, and marginalization from core narratives of American identity. In this definitive history, Laura R. Barraclough shows how Mexican Americans have used the charro in the service of civil rights, cultural citizenship, and place-making. Focusing on a range of U.S. cities, Charros traces the evolution of the "original cowboy" through mixed triumphs and hostile backlashes, revealing him to be a crucial agent in the production of U.S., Mexican, and border cultures, as well as a guiding force for Mexican American identity and social movements.
Charros --- Mexican Americans --- History. --- Race relations. --- border cultures. --- charros and civil rights. --- charros. --- chicano horsemen. --- chicano studies. --- cowboys and charros. --- cowboys of the american west. --- cowboys. --- cultural citizenship. --- early 20th century charros. --- indigenous charros. --- indigenous cowboys. --- mexican american culture and identity. --- mexican american horsemen. --- mexican american social movements. --- mexican charros. --- mexican cowboys. --- mexican horsemen. --- mexican masculinity. --- mexican nationalism.
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Frontier and pioneer life --- Gunfighters --- Cowboys --- Ranchers --- Barnett, Graham, --- Big Bend Region (Tex.)
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Rodeo performers --- Steer roping --- Cowboys --- Mexican Americans --- Salinas, Juan Light, --- Texas
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This is the 50th anniversary edition of the western that made Max Evans famous.
English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Cowboys--New Mexico--Fiction. --- Ranch life--New Mexico--Fiction. --- New Mexico--Fiction.
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Cowboys --- Fiddlers --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- United States Local History --- Violinists --- Biography --- McWhorter, Frankie. --- Texas --- Social life and customs.
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Will Wright explores the continuing popularity of the myth of the Wild West, demonstrating how, as a cultural icon, it speaks deeply to a desire for individualism and liberty. The author discusses the myth through market and social theory.
Civil society --- Cowboys --- Individualism --- Public opinion --- Social contract --- History --- West (U.S.) --- Social conditions. --- Individualism. --- Social contract.
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