Horsing around : contemporary cowboy humor / edited by Lawrence Clayton and Kenneth W. Davis.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©1991.
Description
228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Series
    Humor in life and letters [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-228).
    Contents
    • From the horse's mouth : cowboy-writers. A true story about cats : how not to get rich quick ; The good jobs I always get ; Old Tom was a good old cat ; Windmiller or windmillie : there's ample fun for all ; Good groceries and clean dishes ; Do gooders don't always do that much good / Curt Brummett
    • Summer cowboys sometimes welcome advent of autumn ; Wild cattle ; Boxing gloves are cheaper than a broken hand ; A bitter lesson ; The devil in Texas / John R. Erickson
    • Night horse nightmare ; Rags to riches to rags ; The Texan that thunk small ; Hit's tough bein' a Texan ; Well, well, well / Paul Patterson
    • The vanishing breed? ; Crossbred stew ; Hello, I'm from the government--I'm here to help you ; The cow committee ; A rider, a roper, and a hell'uva windmill man ; In defense of the chicken ; The oyster ; The #2 hairball / Baxter Black
    • When cowboys sniff a cork ; Dear Mister Hollywood movie producer ; A worthless old cow ; Dear Larry King-- ; The wages of sin ; What would you say? / Sam Brown.
    • Collectors' items. The bull and the motorboat ; A night out in Austin ; The bulldozed tree and the bronc ; Wintertime wrecks ; An aborted cowboy courtship ; It was a big bunch of bull ; "If you can catch it, I'll ride it" ; Some still drink ; Some cowboy revenge ; The dynamited dog ; Milk-pen humor ; A cowboy joke ; Cowboy tall tales / Lawrence Clayton
    • A rose by any other name : some cowboy nicknames ; Singing the bare body electric in Texas ranching country ; A Texas cusser in the twentieth century ; Persuaded to piety ; What you don't know won't hurt you / Kenneth W. Davis
    • Thoroughbreds ; The mad hatter ; Republican to the death ; LBJ was here ; Confessions of a cowdog / John R. Erickson.
    • Belles lettres. The coyote hunt / Elmer Kelton
    • Slim Wilkinson / Benjamin Capps
    • My brother is a cowboy / Carolyn Osborn.
    ISBN
    • 0814321437 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780814321430 ((alk. paper))
    • 0814321445 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780814321447 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    90021452
    OCLC
    22708056
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