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Cowgirls--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.)--Social life and customs.
publication date
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1990
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F596.R65 1990eb
ddc
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978/.02/0922
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Cowgirls--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.)--Social life and customs.
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The Cowgirls
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The Cowgirls
by Joyce Gibson Roach
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS
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1990 by Joyce Gibson Roach 1977 by Cordovan Corporation
Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved Second Edition, revised and enlarged
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The cover art, "A Helping Hand" by H. Dunton, is used by the permission of The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY. Photography by James Milmoe.
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48.1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roach, Joyce Gibson. The cowgirls / by Joyce Gibson Roach. updated and rev. ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-929398-15-7 : $15.95 1. CowgirlsWest (U.S.) 2. West (U.S.)Social life and customs. I. Title. F596.R65 1990 978'.02'0922dc20 90-39339 CIP
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For Ada Worthington Womack, the only real cowgirl leftat least the only one I know.
Jackie, Mary, and Ada Worthington
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CONTENTS
Preface
C.L. Sonnichsen
xi
Acknowledgements
xiii
Introduction
xvi
Section I: Through a Glass Darkly: Women of Cattle Country
1
1. Hairpins on the trail
3
2. Amazons of the range
17
3. Lay that pistol down, Babe
39
4. Into their own hands
51
5. The lady rustlers
67
Section II: Face to Face: The Commercial Cowgirls
77
6. Out of the chutes: The early years
79
7. Out of the chutes: The later years
97
8. With quirt and spur
111
9. I see by your outfit
121
Section III: Beyond Reality: Distorted Images
129
10. Wild, wild women
131
11. A book by its cover
145
12. Pauline out West: The cowgirl in the movies
169
Section IV: The Cowboy's Point of View
181
13. My love is a rider
183
14. No laughing matter: Ranch women in the humor of the West
193
Conclusion
207
Afterword
Elmer Kelton
211
Notes
215
Bibliography
236
Index
250
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PREFACE
Cowmenand cowwomenare a breed apart. People who live with and by cows have always been a little farther outgeographically speakingthan the rest of the population. They pioneered in new country, lived hard and often dangerously, called no man master and occupied land that nobody else wanted. Some of them still do. As a result we like to think of them as more independent, more stable, more themselves than other men. They wear their own uniforms, live as they always have lived and keep some of the flavor of an earlier, braver, simpler, kinder America.
Some years ago, when I was on the road looking into the situation of the contemporary cattleman, I stopped at a place at the end of the trail in a remote part of Colorado. A friendly, weather-worn human being greeted me: "Come in, Stranger! All we've got here is a lot of brush and a few good neighbors, but you're welcome!"
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