| Horsing Around, Volume I: Contemporary Cowboy Humor Contributor(s): Clayton, Lawrence (Editor), Davis, Kenneth (Editor), Collins, Mary (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0896724077 ISBN-13: 9780896724075 Publisher: Texas Tech University Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1998 Annotation: In Horsing Around, Clayton, Davis, and Collins draw upon the vast number of anecdotes portraying the lighter side of working on the range. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 978 |
| LCCN: 98-51158 |
| Series: Horsing Around |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.05" W x 9.06" (0.82 lbs) 226 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Cultural Region - South - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Topical - Country/Cowboy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The tradition of storytelling and folklore reaches deeply into the American notion of national identity, and among the more prominent emblems of American culture stands the cowboy. Despite the attempts to modernize the cowboy of our frontier past, today's mounted horsemen have learned how to adapt to a rapidly changing world--while tenaciously holding on to their heritage. Tall tales and yarns make up a great amount of the folklore of this literary tradition, yet woven throughout such stories stir an American mixture of humor, wisdom, and philosophy. In Horsing Around, Clayton, Davis, and Collins draw upon the vast amount of anecdotes portraying the lighter side of working on the range. The collected vignettes in Horsing Around will provide the collector of Texana greater accessibility to stories that are often told only at public performances. |