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11/1998. vii, 226 pages.
0896724077
978-0-89672-407-5
$17.95 paper
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Horsing Around, Volume I By Lawrence Clayton, Kenneth W. Davis, and Mary Evelyn Collins
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.
Curt Brummett:
A True Story about Cats: How Not to Get Rich Quick
The Good Jobs I Always Get
Old Tom was a Good Old Cat
Windmiller or Windmillie: There’s Ample Fun for All
Good Groceries and Clean Dishes
Do Gooders Don’t Always Do That Much Good
John R.Erickson:
Summer Cowboys Sometimes Welcome Advent of Autumn
Wild Cattle
Boxing Gloves Are Cheaper than a Broken Hand
A Bitter Lesson
The Devil in Texas
Paul Patterson:
Night Horse Nightmare
Rags to Riches to Rags
The Texan that Thunk Small
Hit’s Tough Bein’ a Texas
Well, Well, Well
Baxter Black
The Vanishing Breed?
Crossbred Stew
Hello, I’m from the Government…I’m Here to Help You
The Cow Committee
A Rider, a Roper, and a Hell’uva Windmill Man
In Defense of the Chicken
The Oyster
The #2 Hairball
Sam Brown:
When Cowboys Sniff a Cork
Dear Mister Hollywood Movie Producer
A Worthless Old Cow
Dear Larry King
The Wages of Sin
What Would You Say?
Lawrence Clayton:
The Bull and the Motorboat
A Night Out in Austin
The Bulldozed Tree and the Bronc
Wintertime Wrecks
An Aborted Cowboy Courtship
It Was a Big Bunch of Bull
“If You Can Catch It, I’ll Ride It”
Some Still Drink
Some Cowboy Revenge
The Dynamited Dog
Milk-pen Humor
A Cowboy Joke
Cowboy Tall Tales
Kenneth W. Davis:
A Rose by Any Other Name—Some Cowboy Nicknames
Singing the Bare Body Electric in Texas Ranching Country
A Texas Cusser in the Twentieth Century
Persuaded to Piety
What You Don’t Know Won’t Hurt You
John R. Erickson:
Thoroughbreds
The Mad Hatter
Republican to the Death
LBJ Was Here
Confessions of a Cowdog
Elmer Kelton:
The Coyote Hunt
Benjamin Capps:
Slim Wilkinson
Carolyn Osborn:
My Brother is a Cowboy
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