From The Reader’s Companion to American History. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, Editors. “When you call me that, smile,” the hero said to the bad man in that first of thousands of cowboy novels, Owen Wister’s “The Virginian.” Even before that book’s publication in 1902, the cowboy…
Tammy Burgard: “This footage was shot on the Flying W, a forth generation ranch in Colorado where they still move cattle to the high country the same way they have for generations – on horseback. We have to cross a 10,000 ft pass in Gunnison, CO in late Novemeber…
The idea of the cowboy and the American West is set firmly in the American psyche. Countless films have portrayed the West as a place of freedom and danger, but, above all, a place of boundless possibility. Though we may think they are a thing of the past, cowboys still…
From the PBR Website ONESVILLE, La. – Chris Shivers’ career could be defined by the two world titles he won. His toughness could be illustrated by the time a bull reared up in the chute and slammed his face into a metal rail. He broke his jaw, cracked a facial…
