Download or read book Buckaroo Boots written by Jim Arndt and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clod-kickin’ style for little cowboy feet! Here are well-worn vintage boots and contemporary designs to fire the imagination and carry little feet into the corral and across the open fields. Cute-as-can-be, small-scale boots for little cowboy and cowgirl feet, are proportioned just like their grown-up counterparts, complete with inlaid and overlaid designs and bold colors! Especially collectable: labels such as official Lone Ranger,Tom Mix, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers. Jim Arndt is a commercial and editorial photographer as well as an avid collector of cowboy boots. His previous books include Art of the Boot, The Cowboy Boot Book, Art of the Heart, Art of the Skull, and Art of the Cross, among others. He lives in Santa Fe.
Download or read book Magic Boots written by Scott Emerson and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William has a pair of magic cowboy boots that take him wherever he wants to go, but when he outgrows them, he makes a surprising discovery.
Download or read book The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai written by Earl Mac Rauch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buckaroo Banzai's latest experiments have opened the door to the 8th dimension--and have unwittingly begun an interstellar battle for the world.
Download or read book The Texanist written by David Courtney and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Publications of the American Folklife Center written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncle John s Bathroom Reader Plunges Into Texas Bigger and Better written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncle John ropes, wrassles, and rides into the Lone Star State in this updated, king-sized grab-bag of all things Texas. Packed with 60 new pages, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into Texas Expanded Edition! is bigger and badder than the previous edition. This cowboy-sized collection of Texas talents, truisms, and tales offers fans everything they love about the Lone Star State: its colorful history, fascinating figures, good grub, bona fide Texas brews, and much more. Like what? How about . . . * Cowboy street cred: How to tell a drugstore cowboy from the real deal. * Hogs gone wild! * The funniest Texas tombstones. * A few facts about the grand Rio Grande. * Oil myths, rodeo clowns, water wars, and all the weird, wild, and wonderful things that can be found only deep in the heart of Texas.
Download or read book Public Cowboy No 1 written by Holly George-Warren and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George-Warren offers the first serious biography in which Gene Autry the legend becomes a flesh-and-blood man--with all the passions, triumphs, and tragedies of a flawed icon.
Download or read book The Cowboy in Country Music written by Don Cusic and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of biographical profiles shines a spotlight on that special place "Where the West meets the Guitar." From Gene Autry and Roy Rogers to contemporary artists like Michael Murphy, Red Steagall, Don Edwards and Riders in the Sky, many entertainers have performed music of the West, a genre separate from mainstream country music and yet an important part of the country music heritage. Once called "Country and Western," it is now described as "Country or Western." Though much has been written about "Country," very little has been written about "Western"--until now. Featured are a number of photos of the top stars in Western music, past and present. Also included is an extensive bibliography of works related to the Western music field.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns written by Paul Green and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From automatons to zombies, many elements of fantasy and science fiction have been cross-pollinated with the Western movie genre. In its second edition, this encyclopedia of the Weird Western includes many new entries covering film, television, animation, novels, pulp fiction, short stories, comic books, graphic novels and video and role-playing games. Categories include Weird, Weird Menace, Science Fiction, Space, Steampunk and Romance Westerns.
Download or read book The Creation of the Cowboy Hero written by Jeremy Agnew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Raising Steaks written by Betty Harper Fussell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Raising Steaks, Betty Fussell saddles up for a spirited ride across America on the trail of our most iconic food in a celebration of, and an elegy for, a uniquely American Dream.
Download or read book Death on Heels written by Ellen Byerrum and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian moved to Washington, D.C., from rugged, small town Sagebrush, Colorado, she thought she’d never look back. But when her former boyfriend, cattle rancher Cole Tucker, is arrested for the murders of three women, Lacey digs her cowboy boots out of her closet and hops on the next plane. She is certain of Tucker’s innocence, until he abducts her during a daring courthouse escape. Is Tucker capable of murder, too? Or is there a larger conspiracy in the small town? Lacey needs to rustle up all the help she can get for this case before her old flame is snuffed out for good...
Download or read book Untold Glory written by Alan Govenar and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Untold Glory offers a fresh perspective on one of the most fundamental elements of American history—the conquest of new frontiers. In twenty-seven fascinating first-person accounts, African Americans from different eras, backgrounds, and occupations explore and reflect on the meaning of frontier, both literally and metaphorically. This collection chronicles the search for freedom and opportunity and the achievement of success in a wide variety of fields. The contributors all pushed beyond self-imposed or culturally enforced boundaries to pursue their dreams and ambitions. They include Mark Dean, an IBM vice president and member of the Inventors Hall of Fame, who holds three of the original patents upon which the personal computer is based; the civil-rights attorney Oliver W. Hill, one of the architects of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case; the classical pianist and museum founder Josephine Love; and L. Douglas Wilder, the grandson of slaves who became the first African American governor of Virginia. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and featuring an incisive introduction by Alan Govenar, Untold Glory is both an important addition to the field of African American history and an engaging, eye-opening look at some of the nation’s most daring, innovative, and influential pioneers.
Download or read book Free and Wild written by Gary Haymes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced adventure novel created for anyone who has affection for horses. There are few successful books or meaningful horsemanship stories. “Black Beauty†is an exception, written in 1877 by Anna Sewell, is a great and lasting masterpiece.“Free and Wild†is about a realistic horse’s life, how he is and why.
Download or read book Buckaroo Heart written by Rick Steber and published by Bonanza Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COWBOY AND THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE Herman Vowell grew up on an Oregon homestead dreaming of being a cowboy. He was barely 21 when he became buckaroo boss of the Pitchfork Ranch, one of the biggest spreads in the West. He felt his life was complete and then he met Betty Torrens, a city girl from California. They fell in love and married during the darkest days of World War II. They settled on a sprawling ranch in the heart of the Devils Garden and worked together calving a thousand head of cows, putting up meadow hay with horse-drawn equipment, chasing wild mustangs. When tragedy, and the outside world, encroached on their remote ranch, they stood side by side and fought to retain their vanishing way of life. Rick Steber, one of the Wests most popular authors, tells Herman and Betty's story with words that will capture your heart with their tenderness. BUCKAROO HEART is a true western classic, a story of love so powerful and pure and strong, it is everlasting.
Download or read book 25 Stylish Knitted Slippers written by Rae Blackledge and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relaxing in your "comfy" clothes will never be the same! From traditional bunny slippers, elf shoes, and ballet slippers to loafers, saddle shoes--even cowboy boots--this collection of 25 original designs brings fun and whimsy to your feet!
Download or read book Mistakes Men Make written by Daniel Billett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a compilation of offbeat male blunders, from fashion and hair to body language and gestures, in a book filled with helpful hints and dos and don'ts.
