Book

The working cowboy's manual : a complete handbook for today's cattlemen / by Fay E. Ward ; with 600 detail drawings by the author.

Ward, Fay E. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0517425882
Physical Description: xiii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Publisher: New York : Bonanza Books, 1983.
Distributor: Distributed by Crown Publishers.
Copyright: ©1958.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Reprint. Originally published: The cowboy at work. New York : Hastings House., 1958.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Evolution of the cowboy -- Types of range stock -- Ranch work -- Roundup work -- Roundup personnel -- Roundup equipment -- Cow camp chuck -- The cowhand's bed -- Packs and packing -- How a branding crew works -- Brands and marks -- How brands and marks are worked -- Working with stock -- Mustanging -- Bronc busting -- Hackamores -- Educating the cow horse -- Ropes and roping -- Bridle headstalls and bridle bits -- Saddles -- Trees and riggings -- Horns and forks -- Cinches -- Stirrups and tapaderos (taps) -- Chaparreras (chaps) -- Spurs and spur straps -- Cowboy boots and hats -- Cowboy garb and miscellaneous equipment -- Cowboy jewelry -- Working rawhide and leather: rope knots -- Building a quirt -- Guns and equipment.