Cowboys – Bickerstaff Booksellers

Time Life Books The Old West

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:25:45 +0000

Gamblers and gunfighters, cowboys and Indian chiefs, prospectors and ranchers–vivid portraits of everyone who played a part in the drama of the Old West spring to life in this exceptional new volume. With text and pictures drawn from the very best of the original 26-volume series, this book features a sweeping panorama of the westward movement, with outstanding illustrations, early photographs, maps, sketches, paintings, and reprints of news items.

The Old West Speaks

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:25:44 +0000

The Raw Edge

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:25:44 +0000

The American Cowboy in Life and Legend

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:25:43 +0000

Millions of Longhorns – destined for eastern markets – tramped out of Texas in the 20 years after the Civil War.

The Cowboy

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:25:43 +0000

His glory days began after the Civil War, at the start of the great traildrives. They have made h im an American phenomenon–a monument of American history, a dream of the American subconscious, an image of everything Americans like in themselves. Best of all the image and the reality still exist in the American West today. Here is the fabulous story of the cowboy past and the cowboy present, the cowboy who was an the cowboy who is.

Stick Horses and Other Stories of Ranch Life

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:25:42 +0000

STICK HORSES And Other Stories of Cowboy Life HERE ARE TRUE-LIFE STORIES about cowboys, Indians, (ranch hands, sheriffs) and the milieu of characters that populated the legendary American West. McRae tells about his heroes and also the town vagabonds who came and went through the landscape of his growing up as a ranch kid and his adult life as a third-generation Montana rancher. Both humorous and poignant, the people and events in McRae’s stories portray the living Cowboy Code. Enjoyable, can’t-put-it-down reading in a conversational style from one of the West’s best storytellers. Don’t pass this one up! McRae’s cowboy poetry collection, The Cowboy Curmudgeon, has sold more than 25,000 copies. McRae was the subject of a feature article in Range magazine in summer 2008. McRae has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. McRae is one of the “stars” of the granddaddy of all cowboy poetry gatherings in Elko, Nevada. He was the keynote speaker for the Elko Gathering’s tenth anniversary and has performed his poems across a wide range of venues from cultural exchanges in Australia, Scotland, England, and various settings in the United States. McRae’s reputation in the field of writing and performing cowboy poetry is unsurpassed. His poem “Reincarnation” is the most recited of contemporary cowboy poetry. Online marketing and promotions. Print and web advertising campaign. National broadcast and print publicity. Co-op available. Wallace McRae is the recipient of A National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. He was appointed to the National Endowment for the Arts Council by President Clinton. His poems have appeared in numerous poetry anthologies. He is the author of The Cowboy Curmudgeon (Gibbs Smith). He lives in Montana.

Story of the Great American West

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:25:42 +0000

This book is the most exciting and lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the West ever published. Its 384 pages sparkle with a lively text and almost 1,000 illustrations, including some of the first photographs ever taken of the West and its homesteaders. No other single book helps you to understand so well what life was really like for the westering pioneers. With the aid of 23 vivid reconstructions, prepared under the supervision of expert consultants, you can imagine yourself in a variety of frontier situations. Here, in one superb volume, is the story of America’s greatest adventure — the new country, the Indians, the people, the wars, the trails, and the great bonanzas of silver and gold. – Jacket flap.

So Long, Cowboys of the Open Range

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:25:41 +0000

This is the true tale of cowboys on Montana’s open range, told by the son of one of the West’s working cowboys.

Look-See with Uncle Bill

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:25:40 +0000

After a winter of studying hard and making good grades in their eastern home, Kip and Scootie are ready for another summer out west. Barely an hour after exiting the train, they are in the saddle again galloping across the open range to help their uncles Frank and Bill drive a herd of cattle to market. It’s exactly what they want–adventure.

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:25:40 +0000

A true adventure story of a man who built a four-million acre cattle empire in the remote ranges of the British Columbia Interior.