Download or read book Ropin Wild Horses and Other Cowboy Shenanigans written by Derk Palfreyman and published by White Bird Publications, LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ropin’ Wild Horses, is a series of true, short stories. It is a historical, fun read. Spanning thirty years of cowboy experiences. Most of the events, take place in the high desert country of Utah. I wrote this book, as a way to preserve a small piece of Western History. A history, that is rapidly diminishing. It includes, riding fast horses, over rough country, with bruises, bumps, wrecks, and stories to be told around the campfire for years to come. Including a short history of desert outlaws such as Butch Cassidy, and Red Lopez.
Download or read book Cowboy Roping and Rope Tricks written by Chester Byers and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old-time champion shows how to spin a rope into rolls, figure 8s, zigzags, and other impressive formations. Sharpen your coordination with the Butterfly, Ocean Wave, Zigzag, and other spectacular stunts, using equipment that takes up little space and costs next to nothing. Includes photos, figures, and a Foreword by Will Rogers.
Download or read book Oklahoma Rough Rider written by Billy McGinty and published by Arthur H. Clark Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into action with the Rough Riders -- The push to Santiago and San Juan Hill -- Surrender, occupation, and homeward bound -- Footloose and free -- The Buffalo Bill Show -- Cowboys, characters, and show shenanigans -- Back home in Oklahoma -- To the last man
Download or read book The Illustrated Guide to Film Directors written by David Quinlan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1983 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Download or read book In Wolf s Clothing written by Niall McOmish and published by Fertile Black. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thriller in a western setting which embraces every known cliché of the genre, dips them in cynicism, and hurls them right back at you. 1870's Wyoming, and the town of Limon is booming. Mining and cattle; and now the railroad, desperate for the revenue. With their grading crews slamming down the track and the construction gangs throwing up the new railhead and stockyards, the place is just bursting at the seams. Tradesmen and tramps; bankers and bums; the hopeful and the hopeless, all jostling with the corrupt and the immoral for a piece of the action in a wide open town just dripping with opportunity. Which is how the Great and the Greedy like it - up to a point. Now they plan to hold on to what they've got; protect it from the next wave of scavengers who might be even more desperate and ruthless than they were. So it's time to get civilised before things get out of hand and the whole lot comes tumbling down. They've tried electing Peace Officers. None could stand the heat. They've tried the army. The town couldn't stand their incompetence. Now they're going to try Feltman. Feltman makes problems disappear. He knows how to kill - he's good at it. But this is no strutting gunman. He's ruthless, yes, and efficient, but personable, likeable even -and he works for them. So why do the good people of Limon feel so uneasy when Feltman appears to be doing exactly what they're paying him to do? Why do they feel like they're being devoured?
Download or read book Our Country Whose Country written by Richard Abel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even in the earliest "Wild West" subjects, the lens of settler colonialism reveals major tropes that will become characteristic of westerns in their depiction of "our country"'s expansion across the North American continent. Single and split-reel fiction films initially may not have captured the vistas of plains and mountains depicted in the large historical paintings and murals described in the Introduction. After all, up to 1904, those companies producing motion pictures for sale or rental chiefly were located in or around New York (Edison, AM&B), Philadelphia (Lubin), and Chicago (Selig Polyscope). Moreover, their cameras, especially the bulky Biograph camera (using 68mm filmstock until 1903), kept them from venturing beyond their spartan studios, except for shooting travel films. The stories and characters that had long circulated in popular dime novels, however, proved a welcome source of inspiration. One figure was particularly notable. Kit Carson (1809-1868) was known as a trail-blazing hunter, trapper, scout, and Indian fighter whose frontier adventures led him frequently across the plains and into the western mountains in the mid-19th century. He had guided John Charles Frémont on no fewer than three expeditions (1842, 1843, 1845) through the Rocky Mountains into California on the Oregon and Santa Fe trails. Together they mounted an uprising against Mexico and prepared the way for California to become a state. Later the frontiersman led several campaigns against the Apaches, Navajos, and Kiowas in what became New Mexico. Carson's legendary stature as an American pioneer came largely from dime novels such as Kit Carson, the Prince of the Gold Hunters (1849) and The Prairie Flower, or the Adventures of the Far West (1849) as well as his "memoir," The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains (1858). Scores of novels featuring his fictional exploits were published and republished through the turn of the century. Even in its book cover design, The Fighting Trapper, Kit Carson to the Rescue (1874), for instance, graphically depicts his skill at hand-to-hand combat. Perhaps it is no wonder that AM&B made him the hero of its early story films, Kit Carson and The Pioneers (both 1903), shot with a more standardized camera (using 35mm filmstock) in the Adirondack Mountains, "amid scenery of the wildest natural beauty and enacted with the greatest fidelity to the original.""--
Download or read book The Silverville Swindle written by Kym O'Connell-Todd and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a town's local resident spots a UFO? Silverville sees nothing but dollar signs. First an amusement park and museum, then a celestial motif for the whole town. Con artists and embezzlers, tourists and kooks, all get caught up in the frenzy, some hoping to make a quick buck, others seeking a spiritual message from beyond the stars. Ride along on this irreverent adventure that reveals Colorado mountain culture at its most outrageous, and where just about everybdy shares in the madness of money, murder, and mayhem.
Download or read book Quinlan s Film Directors written by David Quinlan and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enthusiast's essential handy reference to who directed what, with each entry providing a concise summary of the director's career.
Download or read book Presenting Buffalo Bill written by Candace Fleming and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows the name Buffalo Bill, but few these days know what he did or, in some cases, didn't do. Was he a Pony Express rider? Did he serve Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn? Did he scalp countless Native Americans, or did he defend their rights? This, the first significant biography of Buffalo Bill Cody for younger readers in many years, explains it all. With copious archival illustrations and a handsome design, Presenting Buffalo Bill makes the great showman come alive for new generations. Extensive back matter, bibliography, and source notes complete the package. This title has Common Core connections.
Download or read book Xenophon s Retreat written by Robin Waterfield and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With this first masterpiece of Western military history forming the backbone of his book, Robin Waterfield explores what remains unsaid and assumed in Xenophon's account - much about the gruesome nature of ancient battle and logistics, the lives of Greek and Persian soldiers, and questions of historical, political, and personal context, motivation, and conflicting agendas. The result is a rounded version of the story of Cyrus's ill-fated march and the Greeks' perilous retreat - a nuanced and dramatic perspective on a critical moment in history that may tell us as much about our present-day adventures in the Middle East, site of Cyrus's debacle and the last act of the Golden Age, as it does about the great powers of antiquity in a volatile period of transition."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book David Mamet and American Macho written by Arthur Holmberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be an American man? Holmberg demonstrates how David Mamet's plays explore complex issues of masculinity.
Download or read book Motion Picture Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book To Hell on a Fast Horse written by Mark Lee Gardner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. ” —Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers No outlaw typifies America’s mythic Wild West more than Billy the Kid. To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting true tale of Sheriff Pat Garrett’s thrilling, break-neck chase in pursuit of the notorious bandit. David Dary calls To Hell on a Fast Horse, “A masterpiece,” and Robert M. Utley calls it, “Superb narrative history.” This is spellbinding historical adventure at its very best, recalling James Swanson’s New York Times bestseller Manhunt—about the search for Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth—as it fills in with fascinating detail the story director Sam Peckinpah brought to the screen in his classic film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
Download or read book Wicked Cowboy Wolf written by Kait Ballenger and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Her thoughts turned to the kiss they'd shared. Sure, she'd been kissed before, but never like that. Never in a way that had left her feeling forever changed, like the memory of it was as much a part of her as any of her limbs. She could still feel the tingling sensation on her lips, and dark criminal or not, she wanted more." Years ago, Grey Wolf Jared Black was cast from the pack for a crime he didn't commit. If they wanted him to be an outlaw cowboy, fine. Now, he's the mysterious criminal wolf known only as the Rogue, a name his former packmates won't soon forget. But when a vampire threat endangers the lives of their entire species, Jared must confront his former packmates again, even if that means betraying the only woman he's ever loved... Ever since Maeve Gray escaped the pack's bloodsucking enemies, she's been determined to save her species—and fast. But when a wicked cowboy wolf shows up on the Grey Wolf ranch, offering everything Maeve's heart desires, her eyes are opened to a whole new world beyond the packlands. For this cowgirl, sleeping with the enemy could prove as desirable as it is deadly... To his enemies, he's known as the Rogue. To her, he's her only chance at survival...
Download or read book The American People written by B. A. Botkin and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises traditional songs, stories, customs, and beliefs which have been handed down, by word of mouth for so long that they seem to have a life of their own.
Download or read book Roll Away Saloon written by Rowland W. Rider and published by . This book was released on 1985-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his animated tales of Zane Grey, Butch Cassidy, and the Robbers Roost gang, Rider creates an engaging and believable picture of the joys and hardships of cowboy life.