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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)
TAIL (28D: Part of a cat costume) My cat, Willow, is delighted to see this clue, as she thinks it has been far too long (eight days!) since we have seen a cat-related clue. Here's a photo of ...
Western Hero, 112 issues (Fawcett, 1948–1952) – featured cowboy actors like Tom Mix and Monte Hale; formerly known as Real Western Hero Wild Bill Elliott , 14 issues (Dell, 1950–1955) Contemporary titles
The decreased presence of Union troops in the West left behind untrained militias; hostile tribes used the opportunity to attack settlers. The militia struck back hard, most notably by attacking the winter quarters of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, filled with women and children, at the Sand Creek massacre in eastern Colorado in late 1864. [152]
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights.
"Streets of Laredo" (Laws B01, Roud 23650), [1] also known as "The Dying Cowboy", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying ranger tells his story to another cowboy. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
The Hall of Great Western Performers (sometimes called the Western Performers Hall of Fame) is a hall of fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is a 4,000-square-foot (370 m 2 ) presentation that explores how the American West has been interpreted in literature and film . [ 1 ]
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 ...