Saddling Up Anyway: The Dangerous Lives of Old-Time Cowboys

by Patrick Dearen

Overview

Author Patrick Dearen brings the reckless and risky adventures of real cowboys to life with colorful stories from interviews with 76 men who cowboyed in the West before 1932 as well as 150 archival interviews and written accounts from as early as the 1870s and well into the mid-twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493032976
Publisher:	TwoDot
Publication date:	06/01/2018
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	284,897
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Author of fourteen books, including eight novels, Patrick Dearen was named a finalist for the Spur Award for the best western novel from the Western Writers of America. He has also published a series of children's novels set on the Western frontier as well as six folklore and history books. Dearen received nine state and national awards in six years as a reporter for two Texas newspapers.

Table of Contents

Cowboy Lingo ix

Finding the Stirrup 1

Horses Good, Mean, and Sorry 5

Sky-Kicking Broncs 17

What Made 'em Fall 27

Hung to a Bronc 37

Lariats and Devil Horns 51

Claw and Fang 67

Screaming Rocks and Sky Fire 85

Clashing Horns 97

Watery Graves 117

Flying Fists and Gun Smoke 133

Bibliography 161

Index 171

Editorial Reviews

Dearen's book will give you a newfound respect for cowfolk as he shares the risky adventures of those who cowboyed the West from the 1870s-1930s... If you don't know much about cowboy life, the stories told in Saddling Up Anyway will shock and awe you. This book is an entertaining read.

True West - Meghan Saar

Dearen captures the grit and valor of the American cowboy... It is a fresh and honest tribute to the original American cowboy, not the kind seen in movies and television.

San Angelo Standard-Times - Ross McSwain

Cowboy life is told best by those who lived it and Patrick Dearen has gathered together some of the best storytellers in the bunch. Saddle up for a wild ride.

B. Byron Price