Download or read book Cowboy Folk Humor written by John O. West and published by August House Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Old West, humor was an essential part of life, providing relief and fellowship among all the characters of the great cowpunching tradition. Cowboy Folk Humor is a collection of jokes, tales, and anecdotes about these people and their pranks and foibles, told in a manner as dry as the Western wind.
Download or read book Cowboy Folk Humor written by John O. West and published by August House Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Old West, humor was an essential part of life, providing relief and fellowship among all the characters of the great cowpunching tradition. Cowboy Folk Humor is a collection of jokes, tales, and anecdotes about these people and their pranks and foibles, told in a manner as dry as the Western wind.
Download or read book All Hat No Horse written by Willy Clement and published by Argenta Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howdy pard'ner! You might think us cowboys to be serious folk, but after a hard day's work there ain't nothin' better than relaxin' by the fire with a sarsaparilla and havin' a good laugh. And believe me when I tell you a cowboy could tell you a million stories that would have you splitting your sides. I took some time to scribble some of them jokes down for y'all, and I hope you enjoy them. Some of 'em are even true! Like the time this young whipper snapper was twirlin' his gun about and flappin' his chin about how tough he was and that if that famous outlaw was right beside him now he would shoot him dead between the eyes. Well, wouldn't you know it, that tough, old outlaw happened to show up, and that little greenhorn dang near peed his pants. If you like that, I got way more fer ya! If 'n there's one thing we cowboys love to talk about and have plenty to say on, it's the critters. We probably spend more time around them beasts than people. Horses especially, and they can impart wisdom to your life. Ya know what? A horse ain't trying to be polite when he comes to a fence and allows you to go over first! And when we ain't got no more stories, the classic one-liner always keeps us laughing. Try these: What's the nearest thing to silver? The Lone Ranger's bum. Why did the cowboy sleep with his saddle on? In case he caught any nightMARES! And my favorite (cause it's true): What's the last thing you hear before a cowboy dies? "Hey y'all! Watch this!"
Download or read book Horsing Around written by Lawrence Clayton and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tradition of storytelling and folklore reaches deeply into the American notion of national identity, and among the more prominent emblems of American culture stands the cowboy. Despite the attempts to modernize the cowboy of our frontier past, today's mounted horsemen have learned how to adapt to a rapidly changing world--while tenaciously holding on to their heritage. Tall tales and yarns make up a great amount of the folklore of this literary tradition, yet woven throughout such stories stir an American mixture of humor, wisdom, and philosophy. In Horsing Around, Clayton, Davis, and Collins draw upon the vast amount of anecdotes portraying the lighter side of working on the range. The collected vignettes in Horsing Around will provide the collector of Texana greater accessibility to stories that are often told only at public performances.
Download or read book The Humor of the American Cowboy written by Stan Hoig and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of cowboy humor.
Download or read book Cowboy Practical Jokes written by Robert M. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American cowboy is an icon recognized all over the world. There is, however, an aspect to the lifestyle that's rarely mentioned, which is a proclivity for practical jokes. Isolated ranch life, long hours, and the boredom that occurs at day's end serve as fodder for ingenious and diabolical pranks. This book celebrates the cowboy sense of humor and memorable highjinks from author/cartoonist Dr. Robert M. Miller's own days as a wrangler, as well as those of his colleagues.
Download or read book The humor of the American cowboy written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Humor of the American Cowboy written by Stan Hoig and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the cowboy, for whom the world was a circus of creation, nothing was beyond the scope of laughter. His fertile imagination could produce trail drives of dry-land terrapins, cowboy firing squads for fighting game roosters, and a breed of "honk-honk birds" that could outrun a horse. He used humor to express his fondness for the West, to exchange sarcasms with railroaders, to teach lessons to tenderfeet, and even-sometimes-to laugh at death. In The Humor of the American Cowboy, Stan Hoig presents an authentic collection of tall tales, anecdotes, yarns, jokes, and humorous incidents of the Old West that not only entertain but also focus attention on a sometimes overlooked phase of cowboy life. Stan Hoig is professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Central Oklahoma. His other books include The Sand Creek Massacre and Perilous Pursuit: The U. S. Cavalry and the Northern Cheyennes.
Download or read book The Cowboy Humor of Alfred Henry Lewis written by Alfred Henry Lewis and published by Lincoln Herndon Press. This book was released on 1987-07-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you like your humor ladylike and gentlemanly, sweet and gentle, reader this book ain't fer ya. Nope! This book of funny wildly humorous cowboy stories is raw and robust, tough and of the frontier! And it accurately reflects, through humor, the life of that time and place. You'll meet Tuscon Jennie, Texas Thompson, Doc Peets, Cherokee Hall and many more. Then you'll enter the Red Light bar at "first drink time, " or "second drink time" (that's how they measure the hours in Wolfville where all the good folks live), or you'll buy supplies at The New York Store and eat at the O.K. Restauraw. You'll delight in the poetic spelling, imaginative language and find their police force, "The Strangler" efficient "more than somewhat."
Download or read book The Cowboy Encyclopedia written by Richard W. Slatta and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 450 entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth of both North and South America.
Download or read book Cowboy Etiquette written by Texas Bix Bender and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Ward Beecher said “the common sense of one century is the common sense of the next.”That said, these pocket-sized humor books pack quite a bit of punch—lines that is. With more than1.5 million copies in print, their all-new look will leave a whole new generation in stitches!
Download or read book Wahoo written by Texas Bix Bender and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 1999 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3 1/4 X 4 1/2 In, 64 Pp, Line Drawings The Humor-Tinged Quips Include * All The Foofaraws In Texas Ain't Worth A Tear In One Good Woman's Eye. * The Right One Is Worth A Million Wrong Ones. * When You Find The Right One, Don't Waste Any Time Kicking The Jackrabbits Off The Trail. * Love-Frettin' Can Leave Your Heart Fractured Like A Watermelon In A Cow Pen * When You're In Love, You've Got The World By The Tail and It's A Downhill Pull. Not Just For The Lovelorn Cowboy, This Book Is Perfect For Anyone Who Has Ever Felt The Pangs of Love and Still Knows They Could Learn A Thing Or Two.
Download or read book Mormon Cowboy written by "J.R. ""Buster"" " Thompson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-02-25 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These is some a them stories what is wrote to be read out loud. And some of what is in here, just don't make no sense except for if you got a sprig a alfalfa a hanging twixt your teeth, a pair a worn down Cowboy boots on your feet, and the smell of leather or horses somewhere near by." Excerpts: Chapter 1 "Nose" " none of us ever asked him what he used to be called since it was a pretty sore subject for him to talk about." Chapter 4 "Dying For Your Beliefs" " the West wasn't nothing but brave men and stalwart women out there a taming the untamed why this wasn't no more based on fact than a buffalo can fly." Chapter 6 "Scratching Out a Living" "Real Cowboys were a might bashful and didn't speak up unless they was spoke to." Chapter 7 "Cowboys are Thinkers" "The actual thing of it is, that a Cowboy is one of God's few creatures what spends most of his life just sitting and thinking." Chapter 10 "Promises of Partners" "Well, a Cowboy's promise, like these partners had made each other to meet again, was always meant sincere, and for that it was trusted." Chapter 11 "God's Pay" "It's times like these when a Cowboy kind of figures God Hisself just needs some entertaining." Chapter 12 "Hop'n and Poke'n" "Cowboy'n is a profession what ain't appreciated for its value unless you been one."
Download or read book A Roundup of Cowboy Humor written by Ted Stone and published by Red Deer, Alta. : Red Deer College Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a century, writers have been inspired by the rich, ironic, insightful humor of the West. Ted Stone has lassoed an hilarious sampling of the best of these stories and poems in A Roundup of Cowboy Humor, a collection that reverberates with the comic spirit of old-time stories told beside a roundup campfire.
Download or read book Don t Squat With Your Spurs On written by Texas Bix Bender and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over three million copies sold, this collection of cowboy wisdom and words to live by is “worthy of a book rustler” (South Bend Tribune). In the tradition of humorist Will Rogers, Don’t Squat with Your Spurs On takes a look at life through the eyes of the cowboy. It’s filled with quips and quotes that represent the Code of the West, like: “Always drink upstream from the herd” and “The easiest way to eat crow is while it's still warm. The colder it gets, the harder it is to swallow.” A modern classic, it’s full of good laughs—and good old-fashioned wisdom.
Download or read book Never Ask a Man the Size of His Spread written by Gladiola Montana and published by GibbsSmith.ORM. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the western woman’s take on life with this collection of wise and witty quips and quotations. “Callin’ women the weaker sex makes about as much sense as callin’ men the stronger one.” “Anybody who thinks they know everything ain’t been around long enough to know anything.” “When a cowboy gives you the key to his truck, you know you’re close to winning the key to his heart.” “If you’re fixin’ to get yourself a good stallion, don’t go lookin’ in the donkey corral.” As long as the cowboy has been a hero in our imaginations, the cowgirl has been leading him from behind. In this compilation, you’ll find page after page of humorous, homespun sayings from her point of view that are sure to inspire, make you think, and make you laugh. Henry Ward Beecher said, “The common sense of one century is the common sense of the next.” That said, these pocket-sized humor books pack quite a bit of punch…lines that is. With more than 1.5 million copies in print, their all-new look will leave a whole new generation in stitches!
Download or read book Metal Cowboy written by Joe Kurmaskie and published by Three Rivers Press (CA). This book was released on 2002 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heartwarming collection of true stories reveals the thrill and the freedom of traveling America's back roads on a bicycle, and the joy of discovering unforgettable characters along the way.From the moment he borrowed his big sister's banana-seat bike and careened down the neighborhood hill at the age of five, Joe Kurmaskie has known the intoxicating freedom and power of the bicycle. In this big-hearted collection of stories, Joe -- dubbed the Metal Cowboy by a blind rancher he encountered one icy morning in Idaho -- tells of his whimsical, wild adventures through the American landscape.
