Cowboy hat

One of the greatest myths is; all Cowboys wore cowboy hats, when in reality that isn’t the case. They often wore hats wore hats such as the flat pancake hat or the bowler hat. Another rumor or myth was that all bank robbers such as Black Bart or the Dalton Gang ruled the west. Truth be told is that the towns were so small the Sheriff wouldn’t be very far away, even if the robbers got away with the loot it wouldn’t be but a small fraction of the amount banks today have. More criminals would steal from trains because a bank was also hard to get in and out of because all the buildings were built in a tight space together. When most people think of a Cowboy in their head they have this picture of someone who is going to mug them for their money.…

Will Gunderson was a good boy, as boys go. He grew up in the high plains of Colorado where cattle bellowed and grazed, and cowboys rode through his small town, donned with spurs, chaps, and big wide hats. He was full of dreams, fed by the white billowing clouds that danced in the bright blue sky above his house, and he spent his days riding his pony over the big meadows near the edge of town, and as he rode across the meadow, he was anywhere, but, home. William lived in a parsonage with…

Living in a place like Dallas or Houston affords for some great fashion looks. Just walking down the street in one of these southern cities gives you a glimpse into real cowboy western wear. Leather boots, blue jeans and ten-gallon hats dot the landscape in Texas. If you love the look but you live farther north, you might think dressing like a cowboy or cowgirl is off limits. That’s really not the case as anyone can pull of the western wear look with the right clothes. The staple of any look…

gathering and shipping cattle. The first town to fully establish was Abilene in Kansas. Dodge City and Wichita soon followed. Dodge City was considered the “cowboy capital of the world.” (Ramos). In order for the cowmen to make sure they didn’t lose any of their cattle or to keep others from stealing, and to identify their own, they would brand or earmark the cattle. In order to brand the cattle, they would take a cast iron and burn marks into hides or they would cut a shape out of the ears.…

benefits of wearing caps hats? How to maintain them? Description: Caps hats are bought to reap a variety of benefits. You should know how to maintain them to get years of service. So, Father’s Day is nearing. You may have plans to gift something to your dad. Why not gift him a baseball hat carrying the logo of his favorite team. You can also buy a hat for yourself to the signify offspring’s bond with the matching hat. Matching hats can bring you closer to your dad. There are various online…

Wild Horses: A Dull Cowboy Soap Opera Robert Duvall wrote, directed, and starred in Wild Horses. Duvall indulges us with another gruff cowboy role as Scott Briggs, an old time rancher with a past full of mistakes. The film opens with Scott walking in on his son, Ben Briggs (James Franco) having an intimate conversation with another boy, Jimmy (Darien Willardson). Ashamed of his gay son he kicks both boys off the ranch at gunpoint. Fifteen years later Texas Ranger, Samantha (Luciana…

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly fits greatly in the history of the western. The movie was film in the West America because of the desert, mountains, small town frontier, railroads, saloons, and military forts of the Wild West. Most of the western movies had cowboys armed with a revolver gun, wearing boots, hats, spurs, and bandanas abound their necks while riding horses. Western movies usually had the same story lines about lawman and bounty hunters tracking down wanted people for a living. Most…

group which was me, Angelo and the teachers that look after us. Angelo has black hair, blue eyes and was wearing the field trip shirt that everyone had on it was a blue shirt with the white house on the front and names on the back he also wore a pair of blue jeans. The teacher’s names are Kyle Ms. Brogan and Ms. Davis. Everyone had to come to school at six in the morning waiting for the bus it was not a normal school bus it was a coach bus but it was the kind I ride on when I go to college.…

like to think that not all painters paint for the same reason, some paint for the money, some for the challenge, some to express their emotion. I 'd like to take a look at a Bronze Sculpture called the Cowboy by Buck McCain. I was able to go and see this sculpture in person a couple of years ago in Jackson Hole Wyoming and it was one of my favorites. The Cowboy is fairly simple, a man in a cowboy hat holding a saddle in his left hand and his in his right a bridle. His rowles on his spurs are a…

The glory days of the cowboys was but a small one, hardships would soon fall in the form of big swimming and buffalo chips. After the invention of barbed-wire in the 1880’s, long drive was introduced (Background Essay). With five million longhorns unbranded and unclaimed, ex-soldiers, vaqueros, and some Native Americans rounded the cattle up and begun the trestrus four month journey from Texas to the far away states of Kansas and Wyoming (Document A). Despite the raw adventure the cattlemen…