Tag: Cowboy

A Cowboy Christmas Western Celebrations, Recipes, and Traditions (2024)


Free Download Shanna Hatfield, "A Cowboy Christmas: Western Celebrations, Recipes, and Traditions"
English | 2019 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 1493042343 | EPUB | 113,6 mb
Create your own memorable western-style Christmas through A Cowboy Christmas, a holiday collection of décor, traditions, delicious food, and the unique lifestyle of cowboys. Infused with the stories of real-life ranch families and rodeo cowboys, discover their favorite Christmas traditions. Learn tips and glean ideas for decorating your home, wrapping presents like a pro, entertaining guests with ease, and giving gifts people will love. Traditional, classic, and fresh recipes cover every topic from appetizers to decadent desserts. You’ll also find each recipe photographed in full color to help you recreate the results at home. The special touches woven throughout the book make for a heartfelt, down-home cowboy Christmas. Filled with the joy of the season and brimming with love, this book is a true celebration of the holidays.

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Cowboy Politics Myths and Discourses in Popular Westerns from The Virginian to Unforgiven and Deadwood


Free Download John S. Nelson, "Cowboy Politics: Myths and Discourses in Popular Westerns from The Virginian to Unforgiven and Deadwood "
English | ISBN: 1498549470 | 2017 | 412 pages | EPUB | 841 KB
The politics of popular westerns are surprising in substance and significance, especially of late. Cowboy Politics shows how westerns in literature, cinema, and television face the challenges of Western Civilization even more than the perils of American frontiers. Its strategy is to compare key westerns with major theories of modern and postmodern politics. So it analyzes novels from Owen Wister to Zane Grey and Larry McMurtry. It focuses on films from the western revival beginning in the 1990s and featuring Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, while its interest in TV stretches from singing cowboys and Gunsmoke to David Milch’s Deadwood.

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How to Be a Cowboy


Free Download How to Be a Cowboy By Jim Arndt
2009 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1423612744 | EPUB | 15 MB
Explore every facet of being a cowboy with essays and colorful photos in this guide from the author of Buckaroo Boots and Art of the Buckle.How to be a Cowboyis a compendium of knowledge and insight, wit and wisdom, and all-around resource for every aspect of cowboy life. It includes the least you need to know about ranching, rodeoing, cooking, music, dancing, yodeling, lingo (like "dude," "bronc," and "hoss"), cowboy poetry, hats, boots (like boot history and how to choose a pair for yourself), spurs, shirts, horses, hats, buckles, denim, and also how to walk like a cowboy. Discover the top twenty cowboy movies and top western novels. You’ll even find advice from cowboy icon Will Rogers."It’s the rich color camerawork that really compels, and Arndt’s classy shots of elaborately designed boots, shirts, blue jeans and hats, plus peripheral cowboy gear, are enough to make a guy chuck the 9-to-5 and head out to the wild, wild West."-Martin Brady,BookPage

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Saltwater Cowboy The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire


Free Download Tim McBride, "Saltwater Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire"
English | ISBN: 1250051282 | 2015 | 272 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was twenty-one, and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to experience life at its richest, McBride jumped in with both feet.

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