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Author | : Philip Ashton Rollins |
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Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2009-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781104486891 |
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Author | : Philip Ashton Rollins |
Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
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ISBN | : 9781230248035 |
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... COWBOY CHARACTER NECESSARY COURAGE--BODILY INJURIES--UNCOMPLAININGNES8--CHEERFULNESS--RESERVE TOWARD STRANGERS--ITS CAUSE--CUSTOMS WHEN MEETING PEOPLE, AND WHEN ENTERING A CAMP--PERSONAL NAMES-- ETIQUETTE OF GUN AND HAT--INTRODUCTIONS--CURBING CURIOSITY-- ATTITUDE TOWARD WOMEN--ILLNESS AND MEDICAL TREATMENT--SENTENTIOUSNESS--DEFINITIONS--QUIZZICALITY--SLANG--PROFANITY -- DEFINITIONS--RELIGIOUS ATTITUDE--POWER OF OBSERVATION--CHARACTERISTIC POSE--USE OF TOBACCO--BOWED LEGS--DEGREE OF HONESTY-- ESTIMATE OF EASTERNERS--INTELLECTUAL INTERESTS AND SCOPE--SENSE OF DIGNITY--VANITY Universality of courage was an earmark of the cowboys' trade. Bravery was a prerequisite both to entering and to pursuing the vocation. When a man suddenly "lost his riding nerve," as he occasionally did from his own serious illness or from witnessing distressing accident to a loved companion, an accident such as plastered Bud Thompson's face with his brother's brains, he sometimes lost it forever, and with it his calling. Unless unhorsed by this infrequent cause, he rode until he received injury that promised permanence, or he sooner voluntarily retired. Physical injury, ordinarily the gift of bucking, and in the form of hernia, allowed to the average man but seven years of active riding. Once dropped from the centaurs, whether through injury or, much rarer, loss of riding nerve, he still lived on horseback, but regretfully, humiliatingly refrained from "hair-pinning" or "forking" at sight "anything on four hoofs," and restricted himself to such animals as supposedly were not vicious. Courage was needed elsewhere than on the bucker's back or amid the cattle. The cowboy by the nature of his work was required, from time to time, to endure the pitiless Northern...
Author | : Philip Ashton Rollins |
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Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Cowboys |
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Author | : Providence Public Library (R.I.) |
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Total Pages | : 1078 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Classified catalogs |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
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Total Pages | : 1722 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
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Total Pages | : 1728 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Canada |
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Author | : Port Elizabeth (South Africa). Public Library |
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Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Public libraries |
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Author | : Boston Public Library |
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Total Pages | : 942 |
Release | : 1921 |
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Total Pages | : 1082 |
Release | : 1921 |
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