How to be a Cowboy: A Compendium of Knowledge and Insight, Wit and Wisdom

Jim Arndt

ISBN 10: 1423606426 / ISBN 13: 9781423606420

Published by Gibbs Smith, Layton, UT, 2016

About this Item

Gibbs Smith, Layton, UT. 2016. Hardcover. 5th Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to tail. No DJ as issued. Blue paper over boards and spine with bright white lettering and pictures on the front and rear boards. Pictorial endpapers. 225 pp 8vo. This book, with tongue in cheek, is a guide book of how to be a cowboy, act like a cowboy, dress like a cowboy, and be filled with all sorts minutiae about the west, horses, cowboys, poetry, songs, and other bits of trivia. A clean very presentable copy.

Seller Inventory # 016217

Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to be a Cowboy: A Compendium of Knowledge and Insight, Wit and Wisdom
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Layton, UT
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1423606426
• ISBN 13: 9781423606420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 5th or later Printin
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana
  • Ranching, cattle ranches, farming, rural life

About this title

Synopsis

A western icon meets popular culture

How to be a Cowboy is a compendium of knowledge and insight, wit and wisdom, an all around resource for every aspect of cowboy life. It includes the least you need to know about ranching, rodeoing, cooking, dancing, music, yodeling, boots, shirts, horses, hats, buckles, denim, lingo, poetry, and even how to walk like a cowboy. Cowboy history and culture come to light through photos, excerpts, short stories, poems, drawings, prose, and more.

About the Author

Jim Arndt is a commercial and editorial photographer as well as an avid collector of cowboy boots. His previous books include Art of the Boot, The Cowboy Boot Book, Art of the Heart, Art of the Skull, and Art of the Cross, among others. He lives in Santa Fe.