The Old-time Cowhand

Download or read book The Old-time Cowhand written by Ramon Frederick Adams and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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