Author: David Murdoch
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 075666909X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Here is an energetic and informative look at the workinglives of cowboys from around the world. Spectacular real-life photographs of horses, cattle, branding irons, and lariats offer a unique "eyewitness" view of life on the range. See what an authentic chuckwagon looks like, how an expert ropes a calf, a rodeo rider in action on a wild steer, how a saddle is made, and a Mongolian herdsman lassoing a wild horse. Learn where wild horses and bulls livein France, why cowboys wear chaps, how to tame a bucking bronco, and why a gaucho decorates his belt with silver coins. Discover how Annie Oakley got her nickname, why an Australian saddle has no horn, and how the cowboy''s romantic image influenced music and films, and much, much more! Discover the real-life world of working cowboys from longhorns and lariats to chuckwagons, chaps, rodeos, andranches
DK Eyewitness Books: Cowboy
Author: David Murdoch
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 075666909X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Here is an energetic and informative look at the workinglives of cowboys from around the world. Spectacular real-life photographs of horses, cattle, branding irons, and lariats offer a unique "eyewitness" view of life on the range. See what an authentic chuckwagon looks like, how an expert ropes a calf, a rodeo rider in action on a wild steer, how a saddle is made, and a Mongolian herdsman lassoing a wild horse. Learn where wild horses and bulls livein France, why cowboys wear chaps, how to tame a bucking bronco, and why a gaucho decorates his belt with silver coins. Discover how Annie Oakley got her nickname, why an Australian saddle has no horn, and how the cowboy''s romantic image influenced music and films, and much, much more! Discover the real-life world of working cowboys from longhorns and lariats to chuckwagons, chaps, rodeos, andranches
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 075666909X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Here is an energetic and informative look at the workinglives of cowboys from around the world. Spectacular real-life photographs of horses, cattle, branding irons, and lariats offer a unique "eyewitness" view of life on the range. See what an authentic chuckwagon looks like, how an expert ropes a calf, a rodeo rider in action on a wild steer, how a saddle is made, and a Mongolian herdsman lassoing a wild horse. Learn where wild horses and bulls livein France, why cowboys wear chaps, how to tame a bucking bronco, and why a gaucho decorates his belt with silver coins. Discover how Annie Oakley got her nickname, why an Australian saddle has no horn, and how the cowboy''s romantic image influenced music and films, and much, much more! Discover the real-life world of working cowboys from longhorns and lariats to chuckwagons, chaps, rodeos, andranches
DK Eyewitness Guides
Author: David Murdoch
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 0751360171
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
One of a series of reference books which is intended as a reference source on the cowboy. The photographs in this book are based on real-life objects shown in close-up detail, mixed with illustrations and integrated text designed to make them accessible at a glance to young readers.
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 0751360171
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
One of a series of reference books which is intended as a reference source on the cowboy. The photographs in this book are based on real-life objects shown in close-up detail, mixed with illustrations and integrated text designed to make them accessible at a glance to young readers.
Universe
Author:
Publisher: DK Eyewitness
ISBN: 9780241631683
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discover incredible celestial bodies and our Solar System through incredible photography and detailed illustration Discover how past, present, and future space exploration has helped our understanding of the Sun, our Solar System, rocky planets, gas giants, and explosive stars, and wonder at far-off galaxies captured by powerful space telescopes. Find out how the Universe started with a Big Bang and what scientists think will eventually happen to it. Learn the secrets of pulsars and black holes, and learn how they are created by dead stars. Part of the best-selling DK Eyewitness, this popular title has been reinvigorated for the next generation of information-seekers and stay-at-home explorers, with a fresh new look, new photographs, updated information, and a new "eyewitness feature - fascinating first-hand accounts from experts in the field.
Publisher: DK Eyewitness
ISBN: 9780241631683
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discover incredible celestial bodies and our Solar System through incredible photography and detailed illustration Discover how past, present, and future space exploration has helped our understanding of the Sun, our Solar System, rocky planets, gas giants, and explosive stars, and wonder at far-off galaxies captured by powerful space telescopes. Find out how the Universe started with a Big Bang and what scientists think will eventually happen to it. Learn the secrets of pulsars and black holes, and learn how they are created by dead stars. Part of the best-selling DK Eyewitness, this popular title has been reinvigorated for the next generation of information-seekers and stay-at-home explorers, with a fresh new look, new photographs, updated information, and a new "eyewitness feature - fascinating first-hand accounts from experts in the field.
Making Circles
Author: Barney Nelson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806169885
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
In Making Circles, Barney Nelson unveils working-class cowboy culture through the eyes of one who has lived the life she chronicles. From living on ranch camps to surviving both cowboy school and graduate school, Nelson’s story is a journey through time and place, pointing out that cowboys inhabit every continent and century, from Lakota Indians and Hawaiian paniolos to Argentine gauchos and Australian ringers, from Pegasus to Cervantes and Tolstoy. Even Thoreau called himself a cowboy. Nelson's story is both personal and expansive, guiding the reader in circles around the modern West, from Montana to Mexico. Along the way, she celebrates the many characters she has encountered and considers role models. Unafraid to challenge the status quo, Nelson fearlessly defends embattled ranchers as well as the humanities, while speaking truth to the powerful forces of environmentalism, tourism, and urban voters. Both a primer for aspiring journalists and an insider’s reflection on horse and ranching cultures, this tour de force memoir honors the practice of writing and its manifold benefits: embracing solitude, avoiding boredom, and accepting aging and death as part of human and animal life. Full of valuable tips, lessons learned and taught, and far-ranging musings on philosophy and poetry, Making Circles demonstrates brilliantly the value and meaning of the term “cowboy journalist.”
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806169885
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
In Making Circles, Barney Nelson unveils working-class cowboy culture through the eyes of one who has lived the life she chronicles. From living on ranch camps to surviving both cowboy school and graduate school, Nelson’s story is a journey through time and place, pointing out that cowboys inhabit every continent and century, from Lakota Indians and Hawaiian paniolos to Argentine gauchos and Australian ringers, from Pegasus to Cervantes and Tolstoy. Even Thoreau called himself a cowboy. Nelson's story is both personal and expansive, guiding the reader in circles around the modern West, from Montana to Mexico. Along the way, she celebrates the many characters she has encountered and considers role models. Unafraid to challenge the status quo, Nelson fearlessly defends embattled ranchers as well as the humanities, while speaking truth to the powerful forces of environmentalism, tourism, and urban voters. Both a primer for aspiring journalists and an insider’s reflection on horse and ranching cultures, this tour de force memoir honors the practice of writing and its manifold benefits: embracing solitude, avoiding boredom, and accepting aging and death as part of human and animal life. Full of valuable tips, lessons learned and taught, and far-ranging musings on philosophy and poetry, Making Circles demonstrates brilliantly the value and meaning of the term “cowboy journalist.”
Tears of a Lost Cowboy
Author: Joe R. Zamora
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467845450
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467845450
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Samoans
Author: Frederic Koehler Sutter
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824812387
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Ua fuifui faatasi, ae vaoeseese "Gathered into one flock from different parts of the forest" The beauty of this Samoan proverb poetically describes The Samoans: A Global Family. From the tea estates of Sri Lanka to the deserts of the Sudan, from the Himalayas of Bhutan to the jungles of Brazil, and from the People's Republic of China to Papua New Guinea, a family is gathered in 285 color photographs captioned with the proverbs of 30 languages. Each person recounts his or her autobiography: a cardinal in Rome, a cowboy in the outback of Australia, a champion sumo wrestler in Japan, a jet pilot in nothern Alaska, an NFL football player at the Super Bowl, a nun in the slums of Lima, Peru. Each brings a story from his part of the "forest." The book is the result of a two-and-a-half-year odyssey around the world, through 45 countries and 20 states and into the lives of over 125 Samoans documenting what it means to be Samoan not only in Samoa but in the farthest reaches of the globe.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824812387
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Ua fuifui faatasi, ae vaoeseese "Gathered into one flock from different parts of the forest" The beauty of this Samoan proverb poetically describes The Samoans: A Global Family. From the tea estates of Sri Lanka to the deserts of the Sudan, from the Himalayas of Bhutan to the jungles of Brazil, and from the People's Republic of China to Papua New Guinea, a family is gathered in 285 color photographs captioned with the proverbs of 30 languages. Each person recounts his or her autobiography: a cardinal in Rome, a cowboy in the outback of Australia, a champion sumo wrestler in Japan, a jet pilot in nothern Alaska, an NFL football player at the Super Bowl, a nun in the slums of Lima, Peru. Each brings a story from his part of the "forest." The book is the result of a two-and-a-half-year odyssey around the world, through 45 countries and 20 states and into the lives of over 125 Samoans documenting what it means to be Samoan not only in Samoa but in the farthest reaches of the globe.
Lasso Lou and Cowboy McCoy
Author: Barbara Larmon Failing
Publisher: Dial Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
McCoy buys himself a cowboy hat, which leads to a series of misadventures at the Bo-Dee-Oh Ranch.
Publisher: Dial Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
McCoy buys himself a cowboy hat, which leads to a series of misadventures at the Bo-Dee-Oh Ranch.
Insect
Author: Laurence Mound
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780863184086
Category : Insects
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Eyewitness Guides are the best-selling information books ever conceived, with a clearly written, fact-packed text and lavish photography
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780863184086
Category : Insects
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Eyewitness Guides are the best-selling information books ever conceived, with a clearly written, fact-packed text and lavish photography
Boss of the Plains
Author: Laurie M. Carlson
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780789426574
Category : Campbell Kindergarten 2004
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of John Stetson and how he came to create the most popular hat west of the Mississippi.
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780789426574
Category : Campbell Kindergarten 2004
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of John Stetson and how he came to create the most popular hat west of the Mississippi.
Wild West
Author: Stuart Murray
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780789479389
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Brief text and color illustrations chronicle the history of the American West, from the adventures of Lewis and Clark to the massacre at Wounded Knee.
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780789479389
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Brief text and color illustrations chronicle the history of the American West, from the adventures of Lewis and Clark to the massacre at Wounded Knee.