This rare volume by Arnold Rojas contains his writings on the use of bits and his approach to horses. Along the way he tells stories of his own experience as vaquero in California during the early 1900s.

Bits Bitting and Spanish Horses

Rojas, A R

Literature & Fiction

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Stories and personal memories of Arnold Rojas about the California Vaquero

Lore of the California Vaquero

History

Rojas, Arnold R.

Americas

A collection of stories and personal memories of author Arnold Rojas regarding the California Vaquero, his ways and his legacy.

Vaqueros & Buckaroos

Rojas, Arnold

More stories and memories of Arnold Rojas about the California vaquero

California Vaquero

Stories of the last Vaqueros in California from the memory and experience of the great Latino writer Arnold Rojas, told as he straddles delicately the boundary between history and fiction. The stories gathered around the campfire and in the bunkhouse speak eloquently for the vanishing California Vaquero. These are stories from one who was there - in the middle of the Vaquero's world.

Last of the Vaqueros

Rojas, Mr Arnold R

Stories of the Vaquero in California from the memory and experience of the great Latino writer Arnold Rojas, told as he straddles delicately the boundary between history and fiction. The stories gathered around the campfire and in the bunkhouse speak eloquently for the vanishing California Vaquero. These are stories from one who was there - in the middle of the Vaquero's world.

The Vaquero

These are some selected essays by singer-songwriter Tom Russell as they appeared in the journal of the American West, Ranch &amp; Reata. From subtle humor to serious-as-a-heart-attack looks at life, Tom Russell brings his no-holds barred writing style to a wide variety of works that study and display the human spirit in the West. As Russell says of the region, "The West was where you went to re-invent yourself - in the manner of Will James, Roy Rodgers, or Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Your persona thus reinvented, you wrote or sung up your singular cowboy vision. The plot usually centered around, or led back to - the horse. In that respect I call these essays Ceremonies of the Horsemen, a phrase stolen from a Bob Dylan song. I hail from The Irish, with a feint touch of Norwegian. My father's father settled in Iowa. He was the sheriff of Chickasaw County and a horse trader on the side. Or vice versa. I have his card here on my desk: Russell Brothers - New Hampton Iowa - Dealers in Live Stock - Horses and Colts a Specialty. We're Irish, and our besotted roots trace back to pirates and gypsies - a tribe or rascals who would sell a lame horse to a blind priest. It wasn't long before my father left Iowa - gone west to grow up with the country. He worked his way up, discovered Hollywood Park Racetrack, played poker with Hopalong Cassidy on the backside of the track, and sired four kids. My brother Pat jumped out of the crib and was soon hot-walking racehorses, then building a bucking barrel in our backyard. Hang and Rattle, kid. Soon he was riding real bulls at Crash Corrigan's film ranch. Brother Pat's record collection was well formed early on: Tex Ritter, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, George Jones, Hank Williams...and several LP recordings of bullfight music. The stage was set. I absorbed the music and stole his Tijuana gut-string guitar, learned a bunch of old cowboy songs and poems, and became the songwriter. He carried on with the rodeo and the family trade in livestock. To this day he's horseback, behind some arena in Nevada or California. Bringing in the fresh cattle. These essays are my own Moveable Feast. The mystic priest, Fr. Richard Rohr, says the second half of life is the time we're finally able to fall upward, and find our true selves. Finger's crossed. Guitar in hand. The story's the thing. The myth. The legends. Whatever I couldn't fit into a three-minute song I fleshed out into an essay. Here they are."

Ceremonies of the Horsemen: The Ranch & Reata Essays

Russell, Tom

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Dan Hess is a real cowboy poet. He comes from a family of horse and mule traders on both sides that stretch back four generations. His maternal grandmother’s people were Oklahoma cowboys in the early 1900’s, in what is now called the Golden Age of Rodeo. His mother was born in a wagon behind a team of horses in 1899.Dan Hess’ poems strike at the very heart and essence of the American Cowboy and presents true images of a disappearing breed with which young cowboy’s of today can easily relate. His often touching, sometimes-humorous stories and verse paint beautiful pictures with words of a time that is silently passing away.

The Cowboys Gathered 'Round Him: Cowboy Poems by Dan Hess

Hess, Dan

Poetry

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