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4) The cowboys
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Photographs-and-text survey of all aspects of the life and history of the American cowboy during the late 19th century.
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In this broadly researched and engagingly written study, historian Michael Allen examines the image of the rodeo cowboy and the role this image has played in popular culture over the past century. He sees rodeo as a significant American folk festival and the rodeo cowboy as the surviving avatar of a nearly vanished authentic figure - the "real cowboy," who embodies the skills and values of traditional western rural culture. Rodeo Cowboys in the North...
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The films industry was reflecting some of the Civil Rights issues in the USA reflected in The Heat of the Night with the talents of Quincy Jones as composer and the voice of Ray Charles. John Barry's unique orchestral sounds infused the Bond Franchise, Born Free, The Ipcress File and Zulu. Maurice Jarre who started the decade with Laurence of Arabia would score the outstanding Dr Zhivago with "Lara" theme and John Frankenheimer's war epic The Train....
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My boyhood days -- My introduction to the late war -- My first lesson in cow punching -- My second experience in St. Louis -- A new experience -- Adopted and sent to school -- Back at last to the Lone Star State -- Learning to rope wild steers -- Owning my first cattle -- A start up the Chisholm Trail -- Buys a boat and becomes a sailor -- Back to my favorite occupation, that of a wild and woolly cow boy -- Mother and I meet at last -- On a tare in...
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In Playing Cowboys, Robert Murray Davis examines the Western hero--a principal image of American manhood since publication of The Virginian--as portrayed by a variety of post-World War II novelists and filmmakers. Innovative artists have used the Western to discuss issues of ethics and aesthetics, but its greatest impact may have been on popular cultural values. Davis shows that the Western is not primarily about escape or violence, but, at its best,...
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This is a comparative study of the social history and mythology of cowboy culture right across the Western Hemisphere, from Patagonia to the Yukon, including the unique cowboys of the Hawaiian cattle industry. Slatta argues that Spanish influence, neglected in most accepted historiography, is primary in all open-range cattle frontiers of North and South America. His focus is on people, working ranch hands, and how they lived their lives, quoting frequently...
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