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Equipment and Clothing
Books

  • Baker, Jennifer. Saddlery and Horse Equipment. Arco Pub., 1982.

  • Beard, Tyler. The Cowboy Boot Book. Photographs by Jim Arndt. Gibbs Smith Press, 1992.

  • Cowboy GearGaravaglia, Louis A. and Charles G. Worman. Firearms of the American West. 2 vols. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984
  • Reedstrom, Ernest L. Authentic Costumes and Characters of the Wild West. New York. Sterling Pub., Co., 1992. (Originally Published: Historic Dress in the Old West. [England]: Blanford Press, 1986.)
  • Pattie, Jane. Cowboy Spurs and their Makers. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, No. 37. Texas A&M University Press, 1991. 
  • Rosa, Joseph G. Guns of the American West. Crown, 1985.
  • Thompson, Lee. Cowboy Bandannas: Uses and Abuses. Illustrated by Jim Lewis. Gibbs Smith Publ., 1993.
  • Stoecklein, David R. Cowboy Gear: A Photographic Portrayal of The Early Cowboys and their Equipment. Edited by Dan Streeter and Premi Pearson. D. Stoecklein, Photographer, 1993.

Articles

  • Close, Pat. "Spurs." Western Horseman 58,5 (May 1993): 89-91.

  • Ehringer, Gavin. "Rodeo Gear." Western Horseman 58,7 (July 1993): 28-32.
  • Klinkenborg, Verlyn. "The Western Saddle." Esquire 117,1 (January 1992): 36-37.
  • Putter, Irving. "Saddle." In World Book Encyclopedia, Volume 17 - S-SN. Chicago: World Book, Inc., 1984.

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Ranch Life

Books

  • Adams, Ramon F. The Old-Time Cowhand. New York: Macmillan, 1961.
  • Beckstead, James H. Cowboying: A Tough Job in a Hard Land. University of Utah Press, 1991.
  • Clayton, Lawrence. Paintings by J.U. Salvant.  Historic Ranches of Texas.  Austin:  University of  Texas Press, 1997.
  • Cook, James H. and Howard R. Driggs. Longhorn Cowboy. Western Frontier Library Series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984.
  • Dobie, J. Frank and Jefferson C. Dykes. 44 Range Country Books. Austin: Encino Press, 1977.
  • Hall, Douglas Kent. Working Cowboys. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984.
  • James, Will. Cowboys North and South. New York, Scribner, 1924.
  • Jones, Mat Ennis. Fiddlefooted. Denver: Sage Books, 1966.
  • McCallum, Henry D. and Frances T.  The Wire That Fenced the West.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.
  • McNeill, J.C. ("Cap") III. The McNeills' SR Ranch: 100 Years in Blanco Canyon. Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, No. 28. Texas A&M University Press, 1988.
  • Roosevelt, Theodore and Frederic Remington. Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail. March of America Facsimile Series, No. 99. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1966. Reprint of the work first published in 1888.
  • Steiner, Stan. The Ranchers: A Book of Generations. New York, Knopf, 1980.

Articles

  • Allard, William Albert. "Cowpunching on the Padlock Ranch." National Geographic (October 1973), 478-99.

  • Gray, James Robert. "Ranching." In World Book Encyclopedia, Volume 16 - R. Chicago: World Book, Inc., 1984. 132-134.
  • Martins, Marty. "Rodeo." In World Book Encyclopedia, Volume 16 - R. Chicago: World Book, Inc., 1984. 368-370.
  • "Rodeo," Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1993 Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1993 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation

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Brands and Cattle Drives

Books
  • Denton, Ivan. Old Brands and Lost Trails: Arkansas and the Great Cattle Drives. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1992.
  • Gard, Wayne. The Chisholm Trail. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954.
  • Soule, Gardner. The Long Trail: How Cowboys and Longhorns Opened the West. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1976.
  • Wolfenstine, Manfred R. The Manual of Brands and Marks. Edited and with an introduction by Ramon F. Adams. 1st ed. University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.

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Cooking

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 Books
  • Adams, Ramon F. Come an' Get It: The Story of the Old Cowboy Cook. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952.
  • Arnold, Sam. Eating Up the Santa Fe Trail. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1990.
  • Luchetti, Cathy. Home on the Range: A Culinary History of the American West. Random, 1993.
  • Trail Boss's Cowboy Cookbook. Washington, DC: Society for Range Management, 1985.

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Black Cowboys

Books

  • Durham, Philip and E.L. Jones. The Adventures of Negro Cowboys. Dodd, 1966.

  • Levi, Steven C. The Black Cowboy as Cultural Timber. Holloway, 1988.
           

Articles

  • Gite, Lloyd. "Black Cowboys." Essence 15 (April 1985): 44.

  • Hicks, L. Wayne. "A Museum for Black Cowboys." Western Horseman 57,3 (March 1992): 52-56.
  • Slee, Amruta. "Black Cowboys Ride Again." New York Times 142 (March 21, 1993): Section 2, H19, col 1.

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