The American Cowboy in Life and Legend

By Bart McDowell

Book Overview

The life and legends of the American Cowboy, from the great cattle trails of the old west the legendary cowmen with the likes of Charles Goodnight, Joseph McCoy, Theodore Roosevelt, etc. and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870440993
• ISBN13: 9780870440991
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Ashdale Cowboy in life & legend!!

I love this book on The American Cowboy in Life & Legend by author Bart McDowell & Photography by William Albert Allard.It has color photos in this book & I love those color photos.But manager Lewis Watton's notes, "My family doesn't cotton much to that."I like the photos of a cowboy roping a calf & I think they are beautiful photos & drawings of an american cowboy in his life & legend.This is a great book & it has rodeo in it.It had a picture of a world champion team steer roper Joe Glenn waiting for his turn to rope a steer & he had his arms folded & smoked a cigar & threw it away after he smoked & he would rope the steer's horns & carry his second rope but when a cowboy catches a steer's horns, he let's the rope slip out of his hands & the steer runs away & this is called team steer roping but in steer roping he must rope the steer's horns, tie his rope to the horn, trip the steer over with his rope, leap from his horse & tie the feat.When in team-steer roping, you don't use a piggin' string you carry a second rope incase you miss.This is funny of saying The Ashdale Cowboy in life & legend!! This is silly.In calf roping at a rodeo, the cowboy must chase the calf on horseback, rope the calf, leap from his horse & tie the calve's three legs with a piggin' string he keeps in his mouth.The calf must stay tied for 5 seconds.I loved this book & this is a great book & I loved it!!!!!!!!!