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    Rusty Spurs
    Rusty Spurs
    Rusty Spurs
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    Rusty Spurs

    By Jake Jones

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    Cowboy Poetry about the cowboys life, past, present, and future. Some of the poems really hit home today, just like in the one titled "Cable Ready". Then there are those that are a little sad, others that are funny, and others that are just about the everyday life of the traditional cowboy. The "real" cowboy ceased to exist by about 1910 because of things like freight trains and barbed wire. Freight trains eliminated the need for long cattle drives, and barbed wire was able to keep a herd of cattle confined indefinitely.

    This eBook has 33 poems and two short stories:

    INDEX OF POEMS
    Title
    The Black Stallion
    The Ranch Handyman
    Work History
    The Rodeo Experience
    A Worn Friendship
    Backfire
    Cable Ready
    Packin’ A Rod
    The Breakdown
    Too Tough To Die
    Unscheduled Departure
    Under The Mylar Dome
    The Slickers Losing Hand
    The Cowboys Personal Possessions
    The Legendary West Texas Oil Well
    A Faded Horse
    A Cowboy’s Lament
    A Fresh Start
    Down Home Comfort
    Echoes
    Just Passin’ Through
    My Friend Doc
    Remembrance
    The Rookie
    The Dude
    The Best Job
    The Best Seat In The West
    The Greenhorns Attention To Detail
    The Perils Of A Chuck Wagon Cook
    The Ranch Hands Dental Appointment
    The Rocket Ride
    When Bad Luck Rears Its Ugly Head
    Blame (Just an old Cowboy Saying)
    Short Story: The Legend of Mongrel Smith
    Short Story: The Phantom Stampede

    The Cowboy's of today have a relatively easy job considering the Internet, pick-up trucks, ATV's and other items that the OLD cowboy didn't have access to. We hope you enjoy the book and we sincerely hope it makes you smile and think about our history.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJake Jones
    Release dateOct 22, 2015
    ISBN9781310781544
    Rusty Spurs
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    Jake Jones

    A Game Warden for over 10 years and an Emergency Dispatcher for two different Law Enforcement agencies for over 5 years, Jake has information about how it all works that you may never have heard about. Now living in the Central part of the U.S., Jake and his wife are both retired and enjoying life. Jake is also a published author and writes Cowboy Poetry and in the past has attended numerous Cowboy Poet Gatherings. He actually met Dale Evans, the wife of Cowboy Hero Roy Rogers at one of the Cowboy Poet Gatherings just a few years before she passed away.

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      Book preview

      Rusty Spurs - Jake Jones

      Traditional Cowboy life past, present, and future

      depicted in Poetry & Short Stories.

      By Big Jake

      Table Of Contents

      Introduction: Includes a Copyright Notice & some history of the American Cowboy.

      Poem & Short Stories list in order of appearance.

      Title

      The Black Stallion

      The Ranch Handyman

      Work History

      The Rodeo Experience

      A Worn Friendship

      Backfire

      Cable Ready

      Packin’ A Rod

      The Breakdown

      Too Tough To Die

      Unscheduled Departure

      Under The Mylar Dome

      The Slickers Losing Hand

      The Cowboys Personal Possessions

      The Legendary West Texas Oil Well

      A Faded Horse

      A Cowboy’s Lament

      A Fresh Start

      Down Home Comfort

      Echoes

      Just Passin’ Through

      My Friend Doc

      Remembrance

      The Rookie

      The Dude

      The Best Job

      The Best Seat In The West

      The Greenhorns Attention To Detail

      The Perils Of A Chuck Wagon Cook

      The Ranch Hands Dental Appointment

      The Rocket Ride

      When Bad Luck Rears Its Ugly Head

      Blame (Just an old Cowboy Saying)

      Short Story: The Legend of Mongrel Smith

      Short Story: The Phantom Stampede

      Copyright Notice: © Copyright 2013 by: Big Jake. This complete work is copyrighted under all laws U.S. and foreign. You may not reproduce, sell, copy or use this work, or any part of this work in any other media. The term media includes audio files, print files, and photos.

      Introduction

      Most folks do not know when the Cowboy came into being or when the traditional Cowboy as we know him from TV, movies and the like ceased to exist. The traditional Cowboy who was good at roping, riding, herding cattle, branding, cooking, doing cattle drives and many more seemingly compulsory things, came onto the scene here in the U.S. at the end of the Civil War, or about 1860.

      The end of the trail for the traditional cowboy was obvious by about 1910. The reason for much of the Cowboy’s demise was the rail system and seemingly simple things like barbed wire. Transporting cattle became much easier and faster, and cattle could be contained in large confined areas.

      The word cowboy appeared in the English language by 1725. It appears to be a direct English translation of vaquero, a Spanish word for an individual who managed cattle while mounted on horseback. It was derived from vaca, meaning cow, which came from the Latin word vacca. Another English word for a cowboy, buckaroo, is an Anglicization of vaquero.

      As English-speaking traders and settlers expanded westward, English and Spanish traditions, language and culture merged to some degree. Before the Mexican-American War in 1848, New England merchants who traveled by ship to California encountered both haciendas and vaqueros, trading manufactured goods for the hides and tallow produced from vast cattle ranches.

      American traders along what later became known as the Santa Fe Trail had similar contacts with vaquero life. Starting with these early encounters, the lifestyle and language of the vaquero began a transformation which merged with English cultural traditions and produced what became known in American culture as the cowboy.

      The arrival of English-speaking settlers in Texas began in 1821, while California did not see a large influx of settlers from the United States until after the Mexican-American War. However, in slightly different ways, both areas contributed to the evolution of the iconic American cowboy.

      Particularly with the arrival of railroads, and an increased demand for beef in the wake of the American Civil War, older traditions combined with the need to drive cattle from the ranches where they were raised to the nearest railheads, often hundreds of miles away.

      By the 1880s, the expansion of the cattle industry resulted

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