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The Old-time Cowhand

Ramon Frederick Adams

出版	Collier Books, 1971
主題	History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)Social Science / Customs & TraditionsSocial Science / Sociology / Rural
ISBN	00209710019780020971009
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AVg-0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Forget all the sharpshooting horse operas and classic caricatures of the West's greatest human resource. Here at last is the real cowboy at work and at play: an unforgettable slice of Americana whose life will never be seen again. Ramon Adams vividly re-creates the complete cowhand in astonishingly authentic thought, word, and deed. The man, his character, his quirks and fancies come roaring to life--at home on his horse, on the range, in (and out of) the Law, on the chow line, and in the saloon. His attitudes toward God, bosses, rodeos, drinking, and women--in that order--flesh out a humorous, skeptical, singing loner, a man unknown to the average movie-goer--one how played hard but worked harder; who'd sooner dance than shoot; who made his own laws in a lawless land ... but was cowed by the sight of a lady. More than a legend, far less than a myth. The Old-Time Cowhand was on the most fascinating anachronisms of his or any other time. Here's fact that beggars fiction!--Cover