The Cowboy by Philip Ashton Rollins

The author's goal was to provide reliable facts related to the cowboy and his life so that the movie cowboy that started to become popular around this time would not besmirch the real cowboys' reputation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. THE BEGINNINGS OF RANCHING

ORIGIN OF RANCHING, OF ITS EQUIPMENT "WILD HORSES"—"WILD CATTLE"—"INDIAN PONIES"—BEGINNING OF RANCHING BY AMERICANS OVERLAND TRAIL AND ITS USERS DEVELOPMENT OF RANCHING TEXAS TRAIL—VARIOUS DEFINITIONS RAISING OF CATTLE AND HORSES COMPARED—"FREE" WATER AND GRASS—OPEN ANGE—SELECTINGLANDS—FENCES USE OF OPEN RANGE RANCHING's INCOMPATIBILITY WITH FARMING SOURCES WHENCE RANCHMEN RECRUITED CHARACTER OF RANCHMEN—ENGLISH CONTINGENT— FINANCIAL CAPITAL—EXTENT OF RANGE.

II. RANCHMEN AND FARMERS

PROTECTIVE MEASURES—NEW MEXICAN AND CALIFORNIAN RANCHES—VARIOUS DEFINITIONS BRONCO'S VARIOUS NAMES— IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIVE STOCK—DECADENCE OF HORSE-RAISING PRICES OF LIVE STOCK—FARMERS ADVENT ENDS RANCHING—RANCHMAN'S AND FARMER'S VALUE TO STATE COMPARED DISPERSAL OF RANCHMEN ON ENDING OF OPEN RANGE — VARIOUS DEFINITIONS RANCHWOMEN " COWGIRLS' ANTIPATHY TO SHEEP ITS CAUSES AND ITS CESSATION.

III. DEFINITIONS AND COWBOY WAYS

VARIOUS TITLES FOR COWBOY VARIOUS DEFINITIONS—NO TYPICAL COWBOY USB OF PISTOL—DANGEROUS ANIMALS—BEAR-DOGS LOCO-WEED SHOOTING AT TENDERFOOTS FEET—ITS INCENTIVE CARRIAGE AND SHOOTING OF PISTOL—^EXTENT OF LATTEH'S USE—PISTOL NOT ALWAYS NECESSITY—BAD MAN, PSEUDO AND ACTUAL—PISTOL AS NOISE-MAKER—RIFLE, ITS TRANSPORT AND NAMES CREASING AND WALKING DOWN MUSTANGS—VARIOUS DEFINITIONS INTIMACY WITH HORSES THEIR NAMES, COLORATION AND SECTIONAL DIFFERENCES KILLING HORSES—SIGNALLING—KNIFE LARIAT.

IV. COWBOY CHARACTER

NECESSARY COURAGE—BODILY INJURIES UNCOMPLAININGNESS CHEERFULNESS—RESERVE TOWARD STRANGERS—ITS CAUSE CUSTOMS WHEN MEETING PEOPLE, AND WHEN ENTERING A CAMP PERSONAL NAMES—ETIQUETTE OF GUN AND HAT—INTRODUCTIONS CURBING CURIOSITY—ATTITUDE TOWARD WOMEN ILLNESS AND MEDICAL TREATMENT—8ENTENTIOUSNESS DEFINITIONS — QUIZZICALITY—SLANG PROFANITY—DEFINITIONS— RELIGIOUS ATTITUDE—POWER OF OBSERVATION CHARACTERISTIC POSE USE OF TOBACCO BOWED LEGS—DEGREE OF HONESTY—ESTIMATE OF EASTERNERS—INTELLECTUAL INTERESTS AND SCOPE—SENSE OF DIGNITY VANITY.

V. WHAT THE COWBOY WOKE

WHAT THE COWBOY WORE AND WHY HE WORE IT—HAT, ITS FORM, DECORATION, USES AND NAMES—HANDKERCHIEF, ITS COLOR AND USE—SHIRT COLLAR'S ABSENCE GARTERS COAT AND TROUSERS BELT VEST—"MAKINGS"—"NATURAL CURIOSITIES" — MATCHES — FANCY VEST — OVERCOAT — GLOVES CUFFS BOOTS — SPURS — "CHAPS FURS—"WAR PAINT HAIR CHAIN—OTHER RANCHMEN'S RAIMENT.

VI. SADDLES

HIDING SADDLE, ITS NAMES, SHAPE, COMPONENT PARTS AND VARIOUS ATTACHMENTS—Latter's NAMES AND USES MERITS OF SINGLE RIG AND DOUBLE RIG COMPARED FURTHER SADDLE ATTACHMENTS, THEIR NAMES AND USES CAMPING AND CAMP- COOKING STILL FURTHER SADDLE ATTACHMENTS FONDNESS FOR SADDLE SADDLING ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF STOCK-SADDLE—WESTERN RIDING RECORDS.

VII. BRIDLE, LARIAT, AND QUIRT

THE QUIRT AND ITS USE LARIAT, ITS NAMES, FORM, AND USE SECTIONAL DIFFERENCES IN ROPING ABILITY STAKE HOPE AND HAIR ROPE — PUTTO PICKETING — ARGUMENT ATI VENESS OF RANCHMEN—HOBBLING BRIDLE, ITS VARIOUS FORMS—REINS —METHOD OF MOUNTING HORSE BUCKING DISMOUNTING ETIQUETTE OF DISMOUNT—BIT, ITS VARIOUS FORMS AND THEIR NAMES COW HORSE HACKAMORE GHOST CORD TWITCH.

VIII. EQUIPMENT AND FURNISHINGS

PLUNDER" AND "DOFUNNIES"—PACK-SADDLE, ITS VARIOUS FORMS AND NAMES—ITS LOAD VARIOUS HITCHES—WAR SACKS AND POKES—ALFORJAS — HORSE-TRADING — STEALING OF LIVE STOCK—ITS PUNISHMENT—LONG HAIR—VIGILANCE COMMITTEE AND ITS PUNISHMENTS SCENES ON THE TRAIL RANCH BUILDINGS—TANK GO DEVIL CORRALS—ABSENCE OF FIELDS EGGS —PERSONNEL VISITORS—PETS—READING—MUSIC LIGHTING.

IX. DIVERSIONS AND RECREATIONS

FURTHER DIVERSIONS — TARANTULA DUELS — RATTLESNAKES KILLED BY KING-SNAKES—ANTELOPE, ETC.—REPTILES IN BED- LITTLE DANGER FROM SNAKES—SECTIONAL CUSTOMS— HARMLESSNESS OF WILD ANIMALS—DUELS BETWEEN VARIOUS BEASTS WOLVES AND BEARS HORSE-RACES INDIAN ENTRANTS FOOT-RACES OTHER RECREATIONS COURSING HAZING TENDERFOOTS CARD-PLATING DRINKING AND EXTENT OF DRUNKENNESS—DANCING PAUCITY OF RECREATIONS.

The Cowboy
His Characteristics, His Equipment, and His Part in the Development of the West

by Philip Ashton Rollins

The Cowboy $55 plus s/h    Revised and Enlarged Edition 1936 Charles Scribner's Sons 6x9 402 pages 32 Full page plates - illustrations and photos of tack and cowboy gear, cowboy life Boards tight and sharp, no fading of letters Inside clean, no writing, tears or signs of use; however, the paper has become brittle and cracked in both the front and rear inside the covers per photo. You can see the fibers of the cloth still hold strongly

Philip Ashton Rollins lived in the West between 1892 and 1924 where he witnessed first hand and chronicled the character of the cowboy, his work, weapons, clothing, saddles and other tack and equipment. He describes the history of ranching in the United States, how horses and cattle were raised at that time and cattle rustling.

X. THE DAY'S WORK

BEGINNING DAY'S WORK—MORNING SADDLING OUTRIDING BLABBING ANIMALS AILMENTS—PORCUPINES WAGONS AND JERK LINES BULL WHIP VARIOUS DEFINITIONS SHOEING HORSES CLOUDBURST—INDIAN FIGHTING MORE DEFINITIONS —PRAIRIE FIRES—THEIR CAUSE CYCLONES WINTER HARDSHIPS FREEZE WINTER GRAZING DROWNING WAGES — DRIFT BOX CANYONS STORMS RIDING IN DIFFICULT COUNTRY—SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF BRONCOS—WOLFE'S AND WOLVES.

XI. LIVE STOCK

HABITS OF LIVE STOCK ON RANGE—VARIOUS DEFINITIONS— HOUND-UP ITS SCOPE, METHODS, AND DATE CLASSIFICATION OF CATTLE FURTHER DEFINITIONS PREPARATIONS FOR ROUNDUP—ITS CONDUCT—"CUTTING OUT"—"PEG PONY"—ROPING— SNUBBING VARIOUS DEFINITIONS.

XII. BRANDING AND THE ROUND-UP

TAILING BRANDING FIRE—BULLDOGGING—BRANDS AND MARKS BRANDING-IRONS AND BRANDS BRANDING CUSTOMS—MAVERICKS, DERIVATION OF TERM BRAND BLOTCHING — HOG-TIES —STRAYS—OPEN ROUND-UP—INSPECTORS—ATTACKS BY CATTLE—STAMPEDING THE BEEF ISSUE.

XIII. THE CATTLE DRIVE

CATTLE DRIVE SINGING TO CATTLE STAMPEDE—BURIALS OF DEAD MEN—DEFINITIONS WATERING LIVE STOCK—MORE DEFINITIONS RAIL SHIPMENTS SHOOTING GAME FROM TRAINS MORALITY OF WEST—FURTHER DEFINITIONS TEXAS TRAIL AND OREGON DRIVE SWIMMING CATTLE QUICKSAND MILLING CROSSING A RAILWAY QUARANTINE FINANCIAL RESULTS.

XIV. BREAKING HORSES

COW-PONIES — DEFINITIONS — BREAKING HORSES — BUCKING — EQUINE OUTLAWS MAN KILLERS DANGER FROM CATTLE— SPOILED HORSES MORE ABOUT BUCKING ITS DANGER—LYING DOWN—RUNAWAYS METHODS OF RIDING BUCK—"HUNTING LEATHER"—REASON FOR BUCKING — EUROPEAN HORSES —PRESENT-DAY EXHIBITIONS HORSE DRIVE VISIT TO TOWN— MONET—CONVENTIONS ON ENTERING TOWN—SHOOTING-UP TOWN—BUYING IT DEPARTURE FROM TOWN.

XV. RUSTLING

EARLY STEALING LINCOLN COUNTY WAR—NESTERS BEGINNING OF RUSTLING DEFINITIONS—SENTIMENTS PERMITTING RUSTLING — RANGE-DWELLERS THEIR SEVERAL ATTITUDES TOWARD RUSTLING RUSTLER'S METHODS—WYOMING'S HUSTLER WAR ITS SIGNIFICANCE. RANCHMEN.

XVI. TRAILING

RIDING SIGN—TRAILING COWBOY'S PARTICIPATION—AXIOMS— FACULTIES INVOLVED — OBJECTIVES — OBSERVATION — VISUAL "SIGNS"—AUDIBLE WARNINGS SMELL—TOUCH DEFINITIONS —DETERMINING AGE—PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS—EXPLORATION —FALLIBILITY.

XVII. LATER PHASES OF WESTERN MIGRATION .

ORDER OF WESTERN MIGRATIONS—EFFECTS PRODUCED BY MINERS AND OTHERS—RANCHMEN PRINCIPAL CREATORS OF SPIRIT OFf WEST—IMPRESS LEFT BY RANCHMEN

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