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Agriculture in the Southwest was based on the cultivation of maize, beans, squash and sunflower seeds. [9] The Tepary bean Phaseolus acutifolius has been a staple food of Native peoples in the Southwest for thousands of years on account of their tolerance of drought conditions. They require wet soil to germinate but then prefer dry conditions ...
Pecos Bill (/ ˈ p eɪ k ə s / PAY-kəs) [1] is a fictional cowboy and folk hero in stories set during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona. These narratives were invented as short stories in a book by Tex O'Reilly in the early 20th century and are an example of American "fakelore".
Cowboy (1928) Dog Days (1955) Hardrock and Silver Sage (1951) Lost Pony Tracks (1956) Men and Horses (1926) Rummy Kid Goes Home: and Other Stories of the Southwest (1965 anthology) Sleepy Black (1933) The Bar X Golf Course (1933) The Bubbling Spring (1949) The Pooch (1931) Wranglers and Rounders: The Cowboy Lore of Ross Santee (1981 anthology)
In the United States, bolo ties are widely associated with Western wear and are generally most common in the western areas of the country.Bolo tie slides and tips in silver have been part of Hopi, Navajo, Zuni, and Puebloan silversmithing traditions since the mid-20th century.
The origins of cowboy culture go back to the Spanish vaqueros who settled in New Mexico and later Texas bringing cattle. [2] By the late 1800s, one in three cowboys were Mexican and brought to the lifestyle its iconic symbols of hats, bandanas, spurs, stirrups, lariat, and lasso. [3]
[18] Turner's ideas since 1893 have inspired generations of historians (and critics) to explore multiple individual American frontiers, but the popular folk frontier concentrates on the conquest and settlement of Native American lands west of the Mississippi River, in what is now the Midwest, Texas, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, the ...
Most of these cowboy songs are of unknown authorship, but among the best known is "Little Joe the Wrangler" written by Thorp himself. [6] [7] In 1910, John Lomax, in his book Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, [8] first gained national attention for western music. His book contained some of the same songs as Thorp's book, although in ...
"Little Criswell" was born in Eldorado in Jackson County in southwestern Oklahoma [3] to Wallie Amos (Sr.) and Anna Currie Criswell, the daughter of a notable Confederate Army surgeon Dr. D.B. Currie. It was not uncommon at the time for boys to be named with initials, and he was simply called "W. A.".