Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago," was the favorite toast of John A. Lomax, co-founder of the Texas Folklore Society, which lends its name to this volume which opens with J. Frank Dobie's sketch of Lomax. It is followed by Lomax's own "Cowboy Lingo," found among Dobie's papers, and by two other articles on the cowboy by men whose names sound out in the history of southwestern writing. The theme of the cowboy and the West is further pursued in "The Cowboy Code" by Paul Patterson, "The Cowboy Enters the Movies" by Mody Boatright, "Billy the Kid, Hired Gun or Hero" by John O. West, and "Laureates of the Western Range" by Everett A. Gillis. Next comes William D. Wittliff's collection of passages on folklore from Dobie's writings. The second half of the volume includes the history of two folktales, a strange religious sect, tales of East Texas fox hunts, an old-time charcoal burner, poke sallet, and folksongs, among others. Includes a special portfolio of J. Frank Dobie photographs.

Folklore --- Cowboys.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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.)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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

Cowboys --- Ranch life. --- Frontier and pioneer life

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Frontier and pioneer life --- Gunfighters --- Cowboys --- Ranchers --- Barnett, Graham, --- Big Bend Region (Tex.)