Manifest West : even cowboys carry cell phones /

Like any legendary figure, the cowboy is part myth and part reality, memorialized by history and Hollywood, envied by those who spend days at desks and dream of trading swivel chairs for saddles. The writings in this anthology serve as testament to the cultural love, bordering on obsession, of the A...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Milbrodt, Teresa, 1978- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Gunnison, Colorado : Western Press Books, [2013]
Series:Manifest West Series.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Poetry
  • Detail of the Four Chambers to the Horse's Heart
  • Hoof Rot
  • Cowboy
  • Longhorn at the Car Wash
  • The Bad Guy
  • Late Harvest
  • Those Montana Men
  • Rebellion
  • Letter to Weingarten Written as the Script for an Imaginary Western
  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces Rides Again
  • Chico Hot Springs Saloon, MT
  • Working Below Zero
  • Horses and Cowboys Suffer Together
  • Trail Ride
  • Blood Brothers
  • Simile
  • To Pray at the Altar of this Horse
  • Lucky Says More ... Your Gunslinger Shadow Grows Amber
  • Assisted Living in a Rocking Chair
  • Carrying Our Loads
  • A Rancher's Rainstorm
  • The Cattle
  • Ode to Robert McClure
  • Raw
  • After Chores
  • Cowboys
  • The Ranch Woman's Secret
  • First Rodeo
  • Burial for Horsemen
  • Big Horn Passover
  • Long After Memory Is Gone
  • Sonnets of Selecting an Appaloosa
  • Three Haiku
  • Prayers for the World
  • Fiction
  • Cowboy Stories
  • Real Cowboy
  • The Society Of Pardners To Melt Alaska
  • Essays
  • Eight Fragments from My Grandfather's Body
  • Feedlot Cowboy
  • Hiding in the Cornrows
  • Calving Time.