Download or read book Cowboy Spur Maker written by Jane Pattie and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed Blanchard was best known for making spurs that fit a cowboy's boots. Yet Blanchard was known to family and friends as a wild, reckless cowboy long before horsemen of the West recognized him as a master maker of cowboy spurs. It was his years spent herding cattle and cinching his saddle on broncs that taught him his trade as both a cowboy and a spur maker. This lively, illustrated story of the man and his craft relies heavily on the memories of Blanchard's cousin, New Mexico rancher Tom Kelly of Water Canyon, who grew up with Ed and his friends. Co-author Jane Pattie has researched the times and added historical background, and she has also drawn on interviews she did with Blanchard for her earlier book, Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers. But it is from Kelly that she has uncovered Blanchard's work in the cattle business and how he learned from a neighboring rancher the art of hammering hot steel into the shape of spurs. Kelly's ranch life as well as his own spurs are also pictured in this attractive and inviting little volume. Together, Pattie and Kelly tell a dual tale of old times and of change: the story of spur making as experienced by one of its more prolific practitioners and the story of cowboys in the early part of the twentieth century. Through Blanchard's experiences, the authors trace the changes of western life, from horse to pickup truck, from hand-forged spurs to those of commercial manufacture. Ranch life, cowboying, and metalworking in the American West are interwoven through the book, as they were in the real life of Ed Blanchard, who emerges from these pages as a humorous, down-home regional character readers will be glad to get to know.
Download or read book Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers written by Jane Pattie and published by TAMU Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes material on August Buermann, North & Judd, John Robert McChesney and the Texas-style spur, P.M. Kelly, Oscar Crockett and the Crockett Bit & Spur Company, Bischoff and Shipley, Robert Lincoln Causey, Joe Bianchi and the Victoria Shank, the Boone family, J.O. Bass, Jess Hodge, E.F. Blanchard, Adolph Bayers.
Download or read book Cowboy Spur Maker written by Jane Pattie and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed Blanchard was best known for making spurs that fit a cowboy's boots. Yet Blanchard was known to family and friends as a wild, reckless cowboy long before horsemen of the West recognized him as a master maker of cowboy spurs. It was his years spent herding cattle and cinching his saddle on broncs that taught him his trade as both a cowboy and a spur maker. This lively, illustrated story of the man and his craft relies heavily on the memories of Blanchard's cousin, New Mexico rancher Tom Kelly of Water Canyon, who grew up with Ed and his friends. Co-author Jane Pattie has researched the times and added historical background, and she has also drawn on interviews she did with Blanchard for her earlier book, Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers. But it is from Kelly that she has uncovered Blanchard's work in the cattle business and how he learned from a neighboring rancher the art of hammering hot steel into the shape of spurs. Kelly's ranch life as well as his own spurs are also pictured in this attractive and inviting little volume. Together, Pattie and Kelly tell a dual tale of old times and of change: the story of spur making as experienced by one of its more prolific practitioners and the story of cowboys in the early part of the twentieth century. Through Blanchard's experiences, the authors trace the changes of western life, from horse to pickup truck, from hand-forged spurs to those of commercial manufacture. Ranch life, cowboying, and metalworking in the American West are interwoven through the book, as they were in the real life of Ed Blanchard, who emerges from these pages as a humorous, down-home regional character readers will be glad to get to know.
Download or read book Cowboy Bits and Spurs written by Joice I. Overton and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines "Working Cowboy" knowledge with "Cowboy Collectibles," describing the actual usage, background, and value of cowboy bits and spurs. It contains photos, diagrams, and detailed text describing the various bits, spurs, leather bridles, and other related accessories, dating back to the mid-1800s. This book is a great resource for both the collector and the modern day cowboy.
Download or read book Bit and Spur Makers in the Vaquero Tradition written by Ned Martin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsome book covers bit-and-spur makers through all of the Western states as well as Mexico and the Northeast. Detailed timelines and maps of each region locate makers and saddleries. A valuable research tool for anyone interested in cowboy gear, Bit and Spur Makers In the Vaquero Tradition gives one a glimpse of life in the West when horses were the primary means of transportation.
Download or read book RF Ford Spurmaker written by Liz Ford and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bit and Spur Makers in the Vaquero Tradition written by Ned Martin and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bits and Spurs written by Ned Martin and published by . This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book describes techniques used in working metal over 300 years as well as the motifs used by bit and spur makers over many centuries. There are biographies of 121 contemporary bit and spur makers.
Download or read book Old Cowboy Saddles and Spurs written by Gretchen Graham and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Cowboy Saddles and Spurs lists over 8500 past and contemporary saddle and spur makers. It is profusely illustrated with photographs of early rare saddles and spurs as well as the work of living craftsmen. It includes a special section of old Wyoming saddle maker histories. Vintage catalog images feature Denver Dry Goods Co., Monroe Veach Saddlery and Al Furstnow Saddlery. 450 contemporary spur and bit makers are listed. This is a valuable book for any collector of western memorabilia or anyone who would like to know more about the tack that is handed down from generation to generation.
Download or read book Just a Cowboy and His Baby written by Carolyn Brown and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Carolyn Brown sends readers on a wild ride in this enemies to lovers romance between a rugged rodeo cowboy and a fierce competitor who thinks it's time for a woman to take the crown. Gemma O'Donnell was incensed when she wasn't the first woman to win the PRCA (Professional Rodeo Championship Association) buckle for bronc riding. This year, she heads out on the PRCA ProRodeo Tour burning to be the second. First stop is Cody, Wyoming where her stiffest competition is Trace Coleman, who already has a jump on her. A tall, dark-haired cowboy with a sexy grin and a swagger, he doesn't really give a damn about the trophy belt buckle—he wants the purse to buy a ranch he has his eye on. He damn sure doesn't have time for a sassy bit of Irish baggage who can evidently ride anything with four legs and make anything with two legs want to take her to bed. Gemma wins a few; Trace wins a few. In the end they both qualify for the final cut in Las Vegas. But when it comes down to the wire, only one can win the bronc-riding competition and take home one helluva prize. But in this competition, it just might be loser takes all...
Download or read book Bit and Spur Makers in the Texas Tradition written by Ned Martin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive book on all the old bit and spur makers of the Texas region who were working between 1870 and 1970. There are 63 makers featured with stunning photographs of their work, their maker's mark and a biography of each maker. The origins of the Texas style are traced in the history of bits and spurs brought to the New World from England, France and Spain.
Download or read book How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear written by Bruce Grant and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1956 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to making cowboy horse gear includes instructions on bridles, hackamores, reins, reatas, quirts, and riding crops, and features a section by Lee Rice on western saddles.
Download or read book American Cowboy written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published for devotees of the cowboy and the West, American Cowboy covers all aspects of the Western lifestyle, delivering the best in entertainment, personalities, travel, rodeo action, human interest, art, poetry, fashion, food, horsemanship, history, and every other facet of Western culture. With stunning photography and you-are-there reportage, American Cowboy immerses readers in the cowboy life and the magic that is the great American West.
Download or read book We Pointed Them North written by E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is "all Teddy Blue. My part was to keep out of the way and not mess it up by being literary.... Because the cowboy flourished in the middle of the Victorian age, which is certainly a funny paradox, no realistic picture of him was ever drawn in his own day. Here is a self-portrait by a cowboy which is full and honest." And Teddy Blue himself says, "Other old-timers have told all about stampedes and swimming rivers and what a terrible time we had, but they never put in any of the fun, and fun was at least half of it." So here it is—the cowboy classic, with the "terrible" times and the "fun" which have entertained readers everywhere. First published in 1939, We Pointed Them North has been brought back into print by the University of Oklahoma Press in completely new format, with drawings by Nick Eggenhofer, and with the full, original text.
Download or read book Bit and Spur Makers in Texas Tradition written by Ned Martin and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handy reference guide to 65 Texas-style bit and spur makers working between 1870 and 1970 in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arizona, New Mexico and a few other states. It includes an indication of collectibility, value and scarcity for each maker's work, as well as portraits of the maker, time lines of when and where they worked and photographs of their pieces and how they marked them.
Download or read book Cowboys of the Waggoner Ranch written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowboys of the historic Waggoner Ranch are living legends.They are men who embody the attributes of dusty riders who braved the wild a century ago. The cowboys ride a vast ranch, the largest in the United States within one fence. The 510,772-acre ranch, a couple of hours northwest of Dallas/Fort Worth, was established in 1854, only nine years after Texas joined the Union. Jeremy Enlow was granted rare access to photograph the twenty-six cowboys who ride the trails of their forebearers, living a life and practicing skills that have almost disappeared. It is important to record their lives before they shut the gate behind them the last time. This book is a tribute to the cowboys of the Waggoner Ranch.
Download or read book The Cowboy President written by Michael F. Blake and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cowboy President: How the American West Transformed Theodore Roosevelt details how his time spent in the Western Dakota Territory helped him recover from an overwhelming personal loss, but more importantly, how it transformed him into the man etched onto Mount Rushmore, a man who is still rated as one of the top five Presidents in American history. Unlike other Roosevelt biographies, The Cowboy President details how the land, the people and the Western code of honor had an enormous impact on Theodore and how this experience influenced him in his later years.
