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"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.
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Le cow-boy s'affirme dans l'Amérique anglo-saxonne du XIXe siècle. Il est utilisé contre le métissage et imposé dans un processus de quête d'identité nationale. L'auteur décortique l'incarnation du rêve américain. ©Electre 2022
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"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.
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Een klein meisje woont in een hoge, grijze flat in een grote stad. Ze is de stad beu en droomt over het leven op een prairie in het wilde Westen. Ze wil dolgraag een cowboymeisje zijn, en fantaseert over wilde paarden, lasso's en slapen in de open lucht. Maar moeten fantasiedromen wel dromen blijven? Recensie: Prentenboek over een meisje dat geen braaf kind wil zijn. Ze vraagt aan haar keurige vader of ze een cowboymeisje mag worden en of hij ook meegaat. Op elke tekening laat ze zien wat ze daarmee bedoelt. In haar fantasie is de stad de prairie en een hond haar paard. De tekeningen, die telkens driekwart pagina beslaan, tonen een eigenzinnig meisje dat leeft in een grote stad met veel wolkenkrabbers. In haar fantasie ontsnapt ze naar cowboyland; dat wordt op humoristische wijze verbeeld. De tegenstelling tussen de fantasiewereld en de realiteit van de stad komt goed uit de verf. De tekeningen zijn met zwarte dunne lijnen opgezet met gebruik van veel pasteltinten. De tekst is geschreven in de ik-vorm. Onder elke tekening staan twee regels die samen met de twee regels op de volgende pagina een rijm vormen. Door de groot gedrukte schreefloze letters en de eenvoudige woordkeus ook zelf te lezen vanaf 7 jaar. Grappig voorleesprentenboek voor 4 jaar en ouder. - Drs. A. ten Bruggencate
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Cattle stealing --- Vigilantes --- Cowboys
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Rangelands --- Cowboys --- Ranch life
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Ranch life --- Cowboys --- Texas
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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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Billie Timmons was fourteen when he met Charles Goodnight—over a wagonload of manure that had been jammed on a gatepost—and he went to work on the Goodnight Cross J Ranch shortly thereafter. The spirit of helpfulness that led Mr. Goodnight to strip off his coat and lift the wagon free for a lad in need sets the tone of this book, in which the author unwinds a spool of recollections of range-riding in Texas and North Dakota over an eighteen-year period. When Billie Timmons went to work for Mr. Goodnight in 1892, Texas was undergoing a rapid transition from open range to fences. But around Texas campfires he heard tales about the northern range, told by cowboys who had ridden there and who had seen the northern lights, the tall free grass, swollen streams, and stampeding cattle. A longing to see that exciting country took hold of young Timmons. His chance came when four buffaloes from the Goodnight ranch needed a nursemaid for their freight car trip to Yellowstone Park. Once in the northern country, Timmons stayed, casting his lot with the cowmen of North Dakota. He became the protégé of an extraordinary man, William Ray; he was foreman, friend, and confidant of banker-rancher Wilse Richards, a member of the Cowboy Hall of Fame. But even during his days in North Dakota he never lost touch with Charles Goodnight, a lifelong friend, and his portrayal of Goodnight provides much insight into the character of the man whose name belongs to the West. In this book you experience the terror of being lost in the dead-white expanse of a North Dakota snowstorm; the gaiety of cowboy dances, for which there were never enough women available; the excitement of a near-riot in a Hebron, North Dakota, saloon, where cowboys from the 75 Ranch drank up or poured out all the liquor, then smashed all the glasses and bottles—one day before the state became bone-dry; and the loneliness of work on the range, where a flickering lantern on the side of a chuck wagon on a stormy night meant home for many a cowboy. Running like a bright thread through the narrative is Billie Timmons’s love of horses, from whom he learned the wisdom that some horses and some men are to be handled with great care and others are not to be handled at all. His chapter on Buck, his best-loved horse, is memorable. In North Dakota, as in Texas, fences brought the end of the big herds and the end of cowboying for a man who enjoyed it to the hilt.
Cowboys. --- Ranch life.