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Saddling up anyway : the dangerous lives of old-time cowboys / Patrick Dearen.

Title
Saddling up anyway : the dangerous lives of old-time cowboys / Patrick Dearen.
Author
Dearen, Patrick
Publication
Lanham : Taylor Trade Pub., 2006.

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Description
xi, 177 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Cowboy life is best told by those who lived it, and Patrick Dearen has gathered together some of the best storytellers in the bunch. Saddle up for a wild ride."
Subject
  • Cowboys > West (U.S.) > Social life and customs
  • Cowboys > West (U.S.) > History
  • Cowboys > West (U.S.) > Biography
  • Ranch life > West (U.S.)
  • Oral history > West (U.S.)
  • West (U.S.) > Social life and customs
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-170) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Finding the stirrup -- Horses good, mean, and sorry -- Sky-kicking Broncs -- What made ‘em fall -- Hung to a Bronc -- Lariats and devil horns -- Claw and Fang -- Screaming rocks and sky fire -- Clashing horns -- Watery graves -- Flying fists and gun smoke
ISBN
1589792238 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2005025248
OCLC
  • 61703837
  • SCSB-12225802
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library