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- 1From:The Southern Review (Vol. 54, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSHE LEFT EL PASO EARLY. Eight lanes of empty highway and the only other car on the road came straight at her, slowly, almost thoughtfully, the tired tangerine sun slipping over the mountains behind it. The car swayed a...
- 2From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 49, Issue 42)Byline: MEGAN ROONEY College cowboys and cowgirls from around the country galloped into Casper, Wyo., this month for the annual College National Finals Rodeo, and a community-college team took the top honors in the...
- 3From:Whispering Wind (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHistorically, there is a tradition of Indian cowboys coming directly to the powwow after a long day of working cows and horses. Often these cowboys did not have time to change into their powwow clothes and would instead...
- 4From:Critical Studies in Men's Fashion (Vol. 5, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThe cowboy has long been an icon of the American West, and in many ways, the cowboy has become the symbol of the American man. This understanding of the cowboy as the ideal of masculinity has held true even in alternate...
- 5From:Journal of Singing (Vol. 72 NO 5) Peer-ReviewedTHE CIVIL WAR ON DECEMBER 20, 1860, A LITTLE more than six weeks after Lincoln's election in November, South Carolina seceded from the Union, soon to be followed by six more states. On April 12, 1861, Confederate...
- 6From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 40, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWHEN EUGENIO KASALABA AWOKE ON March 24, 1976, in Argentina's northeastern-most province of Misiones, he and his father began the day with their usual routine of heating water and turning on the radio. But instead of...
- 7From:Alberta History (Vol. 68, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe story of the once wild and woolly west is preserved in all its splendor for the benefit of patrons of the wild west show of Messrs. Arlington and Beckman, which exhibited to two capacity performances yesterday...
- 8From:Whispering Wind (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFollowing the publication of the last article (Issue 306, 45:2) several readers asked about the history of the Hat and Boot dance. Mike One Star was one of the dancers featured in the last issue of PowwowFashions. Mike...
- 9From:Ethnologies (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRay Bagley, a predecessor of later, more prominent Alberta cowboy poets, was born in Iowa in 1880 and immigrated to Alberta with his family at the age of 12. (See Lyon 1991 and Marty 1989 for overviews of Alberta cowboy...
- 10From:Southwest Review (Vol. 98, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBecause the air in this small Texas town is soft and pure and leaves no grains of soot on limestone blocks exposed a hundred years or so, I think I could live here someday. I'd spot an Air Stream trailer on a lot not...
- 11From:The Geographical Review (Vol. 85, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNovels by Zane Grey crystallized a set of symbols for the American West in the minds of his millions of readers. He infused the frontier myth with vivid imagery of a sublime and beautiful landscape inhabited by heroic...
- 12From:Monthly Review (Vol. 53, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedNowhere in our culture has our instinct for freedom, or the utopian impulse, been expressed more consistently than in our fascination with the cowboy Western. Who was the cowboy and how did he enter our consciousness?...
- 13From:Alberta History (Vol. 60, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Amidst the spectacle of the Calgary Stampede, the chuckwagon races rise above the cacophony. Since the...
- 14From:Journal of Southern History (Vol. 86, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTHE EXCITEMENT WAS PALPABLE IN THE SMALL CENTRAL TEXAS town of Brenham on the evening of August 16, 1859. Earlier that day three well-armed runaway enslaved people had attempted to "force their way through town" on...
- 15From:Variaciones Borges (Vol. 34) Peer-ReviewedDespite his decisive role in the development of twentieth-century Spanish American literature, Jorge Luis Borges was in many ways a man of the previous century, an Argentinian who perceived with nostalgia the life and...
- 16From:Social Education (Vol. 72, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe cowboy is viewed as an American icon: rider of the open range, rugged individual, and champion of good. Many young children pretend to be cowboys, riding stick ponies and shooting "bad guys." When I was growing up,...
- 17From:American Music (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOn November 5, 1951, the sons of the pioneers--a cowboy vocal group that had enjoyed nearly two decades as stars of radio, recordings, and films--premiered The Lucky "U" Ranch, a daily thirty-minute radio program that...
- 18From:The Journal of African American History (Vol. 96, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn recounting a bull riding event in August 1981 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where a score of seventy-four is the minimum required to advance to the next round at a major Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA)...
- 19From:The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide (Vol. 15, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedTHE RECENT DEATH of Heath Ledger, who made his way into gay cultural history by playing a cowboy with homosexual tendencies in Brokeback Mountain, brings to mind the odd but ongoing presence of the cowboy in gay imagery...
- 20From:Ploughshares (Vol. 41, Issue 1)Ramphal sat in the section of Georgetown Cinema Called The Pit, right up under the big screen Where all the bad boys congregated To hoot, whistle, and offer slapstick outbursts, Even instructions to the cast, as the...