Author: Rodney Bruce Sorkin
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1683485777
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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Clint Walker, a VMI trained cavalryman, and crack shot, returns to find that his father, who alone raised him on one of Kentucky’s best horse farms, passed away while Clint was absent. Clint serves in the south’s finest cavalry unit, led by J. E. B. Stuart, throughout four long years of war in every major battle. Upon his return, he finds that his wife, a childhood sweetheart, died while he was away, and his horse farm destroyed. This starts Clint’s wandering. Serving as a peace officer and cattle rancher throughout the west, Clint battles bad men and corruption while finding love. Clint is doomed to continue wandering until he finds his one true love. For those who like action-packed westerns, The Wandering Cowboy will not disappoint.
Author: Blake Allmendinger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019507243X
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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What are the connections between cattle branding and Christian salvation, between livestock castration and square dancing, between rustling and the making of spurs and horsehair bridles in prison, between children's coloring books and cowboy poetry as it is practiced today? The Cowboy usesliterary, historical, folkloric, and pop cultural sources to document ways in which cowboys address religion, gender, economics, and literature. Arguing that cowboys are defined by the work they do, Allmendinger sets out in each chapter to investigate one form of labor (such as branding, castration,or rustling) that cowboys perform in their "work culture." He then looks at early oral poems that cowboys recited around campfires, on trail drives, at roundups, and at home in their bunkhouses, and at later poems, histories and autobiographies written by cowboys--most of which have never beforebeen studied by scholars. He discovers that these texts not only deal with work but with larger concerns, including art, morality, spirituality, and male sexuality. In addition to spotlighting little-known texts, art, and archival sources, The Cowboy examines the works of Twain, Steinbeck, Cather,Norris, Dana, McMurtry, and others, and features more than 60 historic photographs, many of which have not been published until now.
Author: Judith Roof
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443815802
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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The essays in Talking Drama ask what the relation is between drama and its critics. In so far as we conceive of drama and theatre as arising from and providing some sense of social ritual and comment, drama is itself a critical genre, showing up the foibles and problems of human existence as well as the general hubris and errors of society. Plays both constitute criticism--of society, of ideas, of other plays--and deploy such self-critical gambits as plays within plays, characters who watch other characters, characters feigning roles and personalities, and even the overt inclusion of characters who are critics. Plays, thus, comment both on themselves and on the art of theatre generally. At the same time, drama implies other kinds of critics in the guise of the audience, reviewers, and those who might participate in its ideas. Just as plays produce the seeds of their own critique, so they also spur critique of their aesthetics, the artistry of their performance, and the ideas and conflicts they illustrate. Critics who review play performances are as much an intrinsic part of theatrical events as the audience and the plays themselves.
Author: Carolyn Brown
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402270194
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Book 6 in the Spikes & Spurs Series She's Got Her Eyes on the Prize...He'll Do Whatever It Takes To Win Gemma O'Donnell wasn't the first woman to win the ProRodeo buckle for bronc riding, but she was darn well going to be the second. What she didn't count on was her main competition sweeping her off her feet. Trace Coleman isn't really after a title—he needs the cash prize to buy his dream ranch. But one sexy, determined cowgirl keeps getting in his way. In his effort to take her out of the running, he risks losing both the title—and his heart. They're Both in For a Little Surprise... Everybody's world is turned upside down when a pint-sized bundle of joy gets dropped right into Trace's lap...and suddenly all the stakes are higher. Spikes & Spurs Series Love Drunk Cowboy (Book 1) Red's Hot Cowboy (Book 2) Darn Good Cowboy Christmas (Book 3) One Hot Cowboy Wedding (Book 4) Mistletoe Cowboy (Book 5) Just a Cowboy and His Baby (Book 6) Cowboy Seeks Bride (Book 7) Praise for Carolyn Brown: "Brown revitalizes the Western romance with this fresh, funny, and sexy tale."—Booklist on Love Drunk Cowboy "An old-fashioned love story told well...A delight."—RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars on Red's Hot Cowboy
Author: Stith Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Author: William W. Savage
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806119205
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Analyzes the modern myth of the cowboy as it appears in movies, advertising, the rodeo, and fiction, and gauges its effect on American thought
Author: Nicole Helm
Publisher: Tule Publishing
ISBN: 1943963207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Copper Mountain Rodeo has returned to Marietta and cowboy reputations aren’t the only thing at stake… Rodeo cowboy Cole McArthur has spent the last ten years running from Marietta, Montana, from his father’s expectations, and from the only woman he’s ever loved. But now his past is at his front door, begging for his help. Jess Clark doesn’t want to face the only man who’s ever claimed enough of her heart to break it, but her foster family needs their prodigal son home, and she owes them too much to not make that happen. Seeing Cole for the first time in a decade unlocks the kind of desire she’s only ever felt for him, and never acted on with anyone. Back in Marietta facing family betrayal and family secrets, heat explodes between them, and feelings buried long ago rise to the surface. But can Jess convince this wandering cowboy that his home is with her?
Author: James Frank Dobie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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This Volume Number 6 contains folklore of the Texas-Mexican Vaquero; Tales and Rhymes of a Texas Household; Lore of the Llano Estacado; Names in the Old Cheyenne and Arapahoe Territory; Nicknames in Texas Oil Fields; The Devil's Grotto; Myths of the Tejas Indians; Ballads and songs of the Frontier Folk; several essays on cowboys songs, etc.
Author: R. Philip Loy
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786410760
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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Many people have fond memories of Friday nights and Saturday afternoons spent in theatres watching cowboy stars of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s chase villains across the silver screen or help a heroine out of harm's way. Over 2,600 Westerns were produced between 1930 and 1955 and they became a defining part of American culture. This work focuses on the idea that Westerns were one of the vehicles by which viewers learned the values and norms of a wide range of social relationships and behavior, and thus examines the ways in which Western movies reflected American life and culture during this quarter century. Chapters discuss such topics as the ways that Westerns included current events in film plot and dialogue, reinforced the role of Christianity in American culture, reflected the emergence of a strong central government, and mirrored attitudes toward private enterprise. Also covered is how Westerns represented racial minorities, women, and Indians.
Author: Jeremy Agnew
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476618143
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy comes to us from movies and the book’s main focus is his changing image in cinema. The development of the hero image and the fictional West is traced from early novels and films to the present, along with shifting audience expectations and economic pressures.
