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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)
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".
The ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colorado, inducted the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show in 2008. [7] The Texas Trail of Fame inducted the show in 2015. [8] The Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame inducted the show in 2019. [9] The rodeo section of the Fort Worth Stock Show moved to the new Dickies Arena in 2020.
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]
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 ...
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 ]
Shane – the protagonist, a mysterious gunslinger who enters into the life of Joe Starrett and his family and carves a place for himself in their hearts.Although he tries to leave his gunslinging past behind, refusing even to carry a gun, he decides to fight Fletcher in order to save Starrett's farm.
He worked as a cowboy for a number of outfits, and documented the harsh winter of 1886–1887 in a number of watercolors. [8] Russell was working on the O-H Ranch in the Judith Basin at the time. The ranch foreman received a letter from the owner, asking how the cattle herd had weathered the winter.