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Cowboy life: reconstructing an American myth. Edited and with an introd. by William W. Savage, Jr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1975]Edition: [1st ed.]Description: xii, 208 p. illus. 24 cmISBN:
  • 0806112182
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 917.8/03/2
LOC classification:
  • F596 .S24
Contents:
Anger and bad whiskey urge him on to deeds of blood and death / Joseph G. McCoy -- Most reckless of all the reckless desperadoes / Richard Irving Dodge -- Among cowboys are to be found the sons of the best families / Walter Baron Von Richthofen -- tI spend my last dime for a glass of lemonade / Charles A. Siringo -- Creature of circumstance / Joesph Nimmo, Jr. -- Man of unflinching courage / Charles Moreau Harger -- There are cowboys and cowboys / Richard Harding Davis -- Cow-boy goes to the school of nature / W.S. James -- Wilderness was a source of great joy to the cowboys / Baylis John Fletcher -- He becomes deeply and famously drunk / Alfred Henry Lewis -- No class of men ever was so unfaithfully represented / National Livestock Association -- Dead tough men bawled like babies / Andy Adams -- I am glad I had the experience / Frank Collinson.
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Anger and bad whiskey urge him on to deeds of blood and death / Joseph G. McCoy -- Most reckless of all the reckless desperadoes / Richard Irving Dodge -- Among cowboys are to be found the sons of the best families / Walter Baron Von Richthofen -- tI spend my last dime for a glass of lemonade / Charles A. Siringo -- Creature of circumstance / Joesph Nimmo, Jr. -- Man of unflinching courage / Charles Moreau Harger -- There are cowboys and cowboys / Richard Harding Davis -- Cow-boy goes to the school of nature / W.S. James -- Wilderness was a source of great joy to the cowboys / Baylis John Fletcher -- He becomes deeply and famously drunk / Alfred Henry Lewis -- No class of men ever was so unfaithfully represented / National Livestock Association -- Dead tough men bawled like babies / Andy Adams -- I am glad I had the experience / Frank Collinson.