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The American Cowboy

The Myth and the Reality

By: Joe B Frantz,Julian Ernest, Jr. Choate

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The American Cowboy

The Myth and the Reality

By: Joe B Frantz,Julian Ernest, Jr. Choate

The cowboy, America’s most popular folk hero, appeals to millions of readers of novels, histories, biographies, and folk tales. Cowboys command a vast audience on country radio, television, and at the movies, but what exactly is a cowboy? Authors Joe B. Frantz and Julian Ernest Choate, Jr., reveal the real, dyed-in-the-wool cowboy as a heroic being from the American past, who richly deserves to be understood in terms of reality, instead of myth. Here, then, is the definitive portrait of the American cowboy—in frontier history and in literature—reexamined, revitalized, and set in the proper perspective. Many exciting accounts of cowboy life have been presented by such talented writers as J. Evetts Haley, J. Frank Dobie, Wayne Gard, Walter Prescott Webb, Edward Everett Dale, Helena Huntington Smith, Ramon F. Adams, and C. L. Sonnichsen. But Frantz and Choate see the cowboy in relation to the entire panorama of western history and as part of a continuing tradition: “The American cowboy has carved a niche—niche nothing, it’s a gorge—in American affection as a folk hero, and in this role we have surveyed him.” The American Cowboy: The Myth and the Reality is illustrated with sixteen pages of the great cowboy photographs made more than a century ago by Erwin E. Smith.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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080615599X

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9780806155999

6000 Miles of Fence

By: Cordia Sloan Duke,Joe B. Frantz

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6000 Miles of Fence

By: Cordia Sloan Duke,Joe B. Frantz

The fabulous XIT Ranch has been celebrated in song, story, and serious history. This book of reminiscences of old XIT cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch run. Their forthright, yet picturesque, discussion of ranching hardships and dangers dissipates Hollywood and TV glamorizing. They relate in honest cowboy language what actually happened inside the XIT's 6,000 miles of fence. Cordia Sloan Duke, wife of an XIT division manager, Robert L. Duke, many years ago realized that only those who had experienced ranch life could depict it with deep understanding. As the young wife of a rising young ranch hand, she kept in her apron pocket a notebook and pencil, recording all manner of interesting details as they caught her attention. This diary was the nucleus for the present book. Conceiving of an account of life on the XIT as presented by XIT cowboys, Mrs. Duke set about drawing from reticent, sometimes reluctant, ranch hands the impressions of the XIT (occasionally written down by their more literate wives or daughters) which they had retained through the years. Cordia Sloan Duke and Joe B. Frantz have organized the reminiscences around key aspects of ranch life, retaining the language of the cow hands.

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University of Texas Press

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0292789378

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9780292789371

Power

How the Electric Co-op Movement Energized the Lone Star State

By: Joe Holley

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Power

How the Electric Co-op Movement Energized the Lone Star State

By: Joe Holley

According to author Joe Holley, the story of the Texas Electric Cooperatives, a collective of some 76 member-owned electric providers throughout the state, is a story of neighborliness and community, grit and determination, and persuasion and political savvy. It’s the story of a grassroots movement that not only energized rural Texas but also showed residents the power they have when they band together to find strength in unity. Opening with the coming of electricity to Texas’ major cities at the turn of the twentieth century, Power: How the Electric Co-op Movement Energized the Lone Star State describes the dramatic differences between urban and rural life. Though the major cities of Texas were marvels of nighttime brilliance, the countryside remained as dark as it had been for centuries before. It was not economical for the startup electrical companies to provide service to far-flung rural areas, so they were forced to do without. Beginning with the New Deal–era efforts of Sam Rayburn, Lyndon Johnson, and others, Holley chronicles the birth and development of the electric cooperative movement in Texas, including the 1935 federal act that created the Rural Electrification Administration. Holley concludes with the devastation wrought by Winter Storm Uri in February 2021 and the intense debate that continues around climate resilience and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), overseer of the state’s electric grid, all of which has profound implications for rural electric cooperatives who receive their allocations according to procedures administered by ERCOT. Power is sure to enlighten, entertain, and energize readers and policymakers alike.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1648431577

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9781648431579

Texas: A History

By: Joe Bertram Frantz

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Texas: A History

By: Joe Bertram Frantz

Texas is blood and violence, right? It is cowboys and longhorns, the Alamo and the Astrodome, wheeling and dealing and bragging, right? Right. And also wrong, says the author of this book, Joe B. Frantz. This is the story of how a myth began, with the Texas Revolution against Mexico, cattle drives, and "hyperactive" Texas Rangers, and became embodied in larger-than-life figures, from Sam Houston to "Speaker Sam" Rayburn, from the explorer La Salle to L. B. J. It is also the story of a state larger than its myth, a Confederate state that contained enclaves of pro-Union German-Americans, a football-loving state that produced musicians of the sensitivity of Scott Joplin and Van Cliburn, a western state that also is Southern, Mexican, and Spanish in its influences.

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254

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393301737

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9780393301731

Environmental Performance Measures for State Departments of Transportation

By: Joe Crossett,Jeffrey Ang-Olson,Jeff Frantz

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Environmental Performance Measures for State Departments of Transportation

By: Joe Crossett,Jeffrey Ang-Olson,Jeff Frantz

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 809: Environmental Performance Measures for State Departments of Transportation identifies potential environmental performance measures that may be integrated into a transportation agency's performance management program. The report explores relationships between agency activities and environmental outcomes. A spreadsheet-based "Measure Calculation Tool" helps transportation agencies implement performance measures that were outlined in the report. The tool can be used to record the component data needed to calculate the measures." --

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0309374731

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9780309374736

The Big Basics Book of Microsoft Office

By: Sherry Kinkoph,Joe Kraynak,Ed Guilford

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The Big Basics Book of Microsoft Office

By: Sherry Kinkoph,Joe Kraynak,Ed Guilford

A comprehensive book for new and casual users which provides complete information in a simple manner. The book's high visual presentation helps new and casual users get over the learning curve quickly and confidently. It features easy illustrated lessons, helpful hands-on examples, fast answers to questions, and 101 quick fixes--answers and advice on the 101 most common Microsoft Office problems. (Integrated Software)

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Alpha Computer

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1567616232

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The American Cowboy

The Myth and the Reality

By: Joe B Frantz,Julian Ernest, Jr. Choate

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The Myth and the Reality

By: Joe B Frantz,Julian Ernest, Jr. Choate

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University of Oklahoma Press

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6000 Miles of Fence

By: Cordia Sloan Duke,Joe B. Frantz

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6000 Miles of Fence

By: Cordia Sloan Duke,Joe B. Frantz

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University of Texas Press

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The Forty-acre Follies

By: Joe Bertram Frantz

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The Forty-acre Follies

By: Joe Bertram Frantz

The Forty-Acre Follies is not a pasteurized version of the one hundred years since the gates first opened, but rather a warts-and-all history of a school Frantz believes to be "great enough to bare its sins.

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0932012388

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