LibGuides: Curated Lists 2021: National Day of the Cowboy

eBooks

The Frontier in American Culture by Richard White; Patricia Nelson Limerick; James R. Grossman (Editor)
Publication Date: 1994
Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks.
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The Modern Cowboy by John Erickson; Kristine C. Erickson (Photographer)
Publication Date: 2004
Based on firsthand observation and experience in Texas and Oklahoma, the author described and defined the modern working cowboy—his work, his tools and equipment, his horse, his roping technique, his style of dress, his relationships with his wife and his employer.
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The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart by John Clayton
Publication Date: 2007
In 1901, Philadelphia's celebrity female journalist stepped off a train in Blackfoot, Montana, and into a world of living legends. The miners and frontiersmen, Indians and trappers that Caroline Lockhart met there inspired this beautiful, single, strong-willed woman to live a life she had only dreamed about in what remained of the Wild West.
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News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Publication Date: 2016
In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people.
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Films

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)

An enigmatic loner tries to beat a ruthless bounty hunter and a Mexican bandit to a cache of gold in the finale to Sergio Leone's ‘Man With No Name’ trilogy. (2hr 58mins)

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Country Music (2019)

Explore the history of a uniquely American art form: country music. From its deep and tangled roots in ballads, blues and hymns performed in small settings, to its worldwide popularity, learn how country music evolved over the course of the 20th century, as it eventually emerged to become America's music. (15hr 33mins)

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