Horsing Around, Volume I: Contemporary Cowboy Humor

by Lawrence Clayton

Book Overview

The tradition of storytelling and folklore reaches deeply into the American notion of national identity, and among the more prominent emblems of American culture stands the cowboy. Despite the attempts to modernize the cowboy of our frontier past, today's mounted horsemen have learned how to adapt to a rapidly changing world--while tenaciously holding on to their heritage. Tall tales and yarns make up a great amount of the folklore of this literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896724077
• ISBN13: 9780896724075
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"