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The modern cowboy / John R. Erickson ; photos. by Kris Erickson.

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Describes the cattle business and looks at the clothing, equipment, work, and skills of the cowboy.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Erickson, John R., 1943-
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ℗♭1981.
Subjects:
Cowboys > West (U.S.)
Cowboys > West (U.S.) > Pictorial works.
West (U.S.) > Social life and customs.
Ranch life > West (U.S.)
Cowboys.
Manners and customs.
Ranch life.
United States, West.
Pictorial works.
Table of Contents:
  • What is a cowboy?
  • What he looks life, what he wears
  • The cowboy's wife
  • Horse sense and cow sense
  • Cowboy vices and recreation
  • A day in the life
  • The horse
  • Pickups and trailers
  • Pasture roping, then and now
  • Winter work
  • Spring roundup and branding
  • Summer work
  • Windmills
  • The fall work
  • Calving out heifers
  • The modern cattle business
  • Economics and the rancher
  • Economics and the cowboy
  • The last cowboy?
  • Books about cowboys.

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