Download or read book The National Cowboy Western Heritage Museum written by Bobby D. Weaver and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1965, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, as it was then named, owned a mere handful of artifacts. In fact, the Oklahoma City institution was forced to borrow materials in order to mount exhibitions to support its inaugural events. From that modest beginning, the center, now known as the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, has grown into perhaps the world’s most respected repository for the study and understanding of the diverse cultures of the American West. But, as Bobby D. Weaver demonstrates in this no-holds-barred history, the path from those humble origins to the esteemed position the museum occupies today led through some rough-and-tumble times, including a period of receivership. The autocratic style of the founding director, coupled with certain early less-than-ethical practices, forced the museum into what Weaver delicately terms “a legal tangle” that required a complete organizational and financial overhaul. With renewed professional leadership and the steadfast support of dedicated patrons and sponsors, the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum has developed and changed along with evolving understandings of the culture it was founded to celebrate. What was once a shrine to a particular manifestation of American frontier life has transformed into a world-class art and historical museum that represents the broad sweep of the American West—both lived and imagined—with its full range of social, ethnic, and economic diversity. As Weaver relates, today’s institution is well poised for the future as it furthers its mission of preserving and interpreting the heritage of a vital American region and its lifeways.
Download or read book Our Gohman Story written by Charlie Kunkel and Roy Evans and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shares the stories of 65 Gohman ancestors who grew up next to the Mississippi River in Central Minnesota. They are the third-generation members of the Gohman family that immigrated from Lower Saxony, Germany, to the United States in 1843 and migrated from Cincinnati to Minnesota in 1855. The first and second generations are introduced briefly. The lives of the Third-Generation spanned a period from 1868 to 1991, an amazing 123 years. Generally engaged as farmers, they were diverse personalities who responded to life experiences in diverse ways. They lived through times of both great prosperity and deep poverty. They experienced two world wars and dramatically changing technology. This generation of the Gohman family thrived as they adapted to the changes in their lives from the horse and buggy times to the days of the jet plane.
Download or read book American Hereford Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Cattle Producer written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Cattle Producer written by American National Live Stock Association and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Arizona Highways written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cowboy Corner Conversations written by Red Steagall and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The host of the country/western radio talk show "Cowboy Corner" has compiled conversations with 21 of his friends into a unique book that captures the flavor of the Western way of life. 30 photos.
Download or read book Buckskin Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Cowboy Hall of Fame written by National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Icon Brand Myth written by Maxwell Foran and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the meanings and iconography of the Stampede: an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for ten days every July. Since 1912, archetypal "Cowboys and Indians" are seen again at the chuckwagon races, on the midway, and throughout Calgary. Each essay in this collection examines a facet of the experience – from the images on advertising posters to the ritual of the annual parade. This study of the Calgary Stampede as a social phenomenon reveals the history and sociology of the city of Calgary and a component of the social construction of identity for western Canada as a whole.
Download or read book In Focus written by National Geographic and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of nearly three hundred photographs from "National Geographic," representing the work of more than one hundred fifty acclaimed photographers, captures portrait images of people from around the world.
Download or read book Paper Trails written by Cameron Blevins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald's restaurants today. During an era of supposedly limited federal government, the United States operated the most expansive national postal system in the world. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late nineteenth-century United States, Cameron Blevins argues that the US Post wove together two of the era's defining projects: western expansion and the growth of state power. Between the 1860s and the early 1900s, the western United States underwent a truly dramatic reorganization of people, land, capital, and resources. It had taken Anglo-Americans the better part of two hundred years to occupy the eastern half of the continent, yet they occupied the West within a single generation. As millions of settlers moved into the region, they relied on letters and newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, petitions and money orders to stay connected to the wider world. Paper Trails maps the spread of the US Post using a dataset of more than 100,000 post offices, revealing a new picture of the federal government in the West. The western postal network bore little resemblance to the civil service bureaucracies typically associated with government institutions. Instead, the US Post grafted public mail service onto private businesses, contracting with stagecoach companies to carry the mail and paying local merchants to distribute letters from their stores. These arrangements allowed the US Post to rapidly spin out a vast and ephemeral web of postal infrastructure to thousands of distant places. The postal network's sprawling geography and localized operations forces a reconsideration of the American state, its history, and the ways in which it exercised power.
Download or read book Back in the Saddle Again written by Gene Autry and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gene Autry's autobiography follows him from his Oklahoma childhood, through his enormous success as Hollywood's first singing cowboy, to his current life as head of a business empire
Download or read book Cow Boyhood The Adventures of Wilder Good 7 written by S. J. Dahlstrom and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2022 Wrangler Award - Western Heritage Awards Winner, 2022 Spur Award - Western Writers of America "Cow Boyhood is unapologetically traditional in its valorizing of grit, stoicism and manliness." - The Wall Street Journal Thirteen-year-old Wilder has spent his boyhood watching men like his grandpa Papa Milam . . . and wanting to be like them. Now he is leaving on a two day cattle drive through river and canyon country with his aging Papa and another older man, Red Guffey. In big ranch country full of livestock and wild animals, Wilder is forced to recognize that his own instincts and abilities may have become greater than those of his heroes.
