Last Cavalier
Last Cavalier

Author: Nolan Porterfield

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9780252069710

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John A. Lomax was an American original, a man of intellect, tireless ambition, visionary zeal, and vast contradictions. Perhaps best known as a pioneer American folklorist, he was also a successful businessman, an influential educator, and the patriarch of an extended family of artists, performers, and scholars whose work continues to influence American culture on both popular and academic levels.

Cowboy Poets & Cowboy Poetry
Cowboy Poets & Cowboy Poetry

Author: David Stanley

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780252068362

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This book offers the first in-depth examination of a distinctive and community-based tradition rich with larger-than-life heroes, vivid occupational language, humor, and unblinking encounters with birth, death, nature, and animals in the poetry.

Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle
Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle

Author: Katie Lee

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780826323354

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This classic of cowboy lore including illustrations by cowboy artist William Moyers, first published in 1976, is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press. "A beautiful job, exact, comprehensive and witty. Should remain a basic history of the subject for many years to come."--Edward Abbey