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Cowboy Songs and Singers: Of Lifeways and
Legends
http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/cowboysongs/index.html
This site features an essay
on the history of “real” cowboys and their Hollywood
counterparts. Video and audio links of local Arizona cowboy
musicians are included.
Library of Congress, American Folklife
Center Presents
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ncrhtml/crhome.html
Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada,
1945-1982
This site is an extensive documentary of ranching life in Northern
Nevada with focus on the 96 Ranch and its buckaroos. The site
features over 40 video clips and over 25 audio clips, in addition
to numerous still photos.
Library of Congress: American Memory
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(edmp+4029))
Bucking Bronco
Part of the Library of Congress’s American Memory Website, this
is a presentation of film clips from the real Buffalo Bill’s
Wild West Show, part of their Early Motion Picture Collection.
This clip could be used to talk about the intersection of real
cowboy life and staged entertainment presentations of cowboy life.
Erwin E. Smith, Cowboy Poet: Teaching
Guide
http://www.cartermuseum.org/collections/smith/teaching.php
This is a teacher’s guide from the Amon Carter Museum
designed to help 4th through 7th grade teachers explain the work
of cowboy photographer Erwin E. Smith, cowboy culture and Texas
history. Over 700 pictures are available through this online
guide.
Vaqueros: The First Cowboys
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/jose/vaquero.htm
This page is from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and
offers further information about vaquero and cowboy history.
Features an in depth article about vaqueros and their place in
Texas history as well as a searchable database of Texas history
topics from the Texas Handbook Online, a joint project of the
General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the
Texas State Historical Association.
Ranching in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
http://www.riceinfo.rice.edu/armadillo/Past/Teach/les15.html
This is an excellent site, complete with activities
incorporating TEKS and vocabulary words. The site is published by
the Armadillo World Wide Web Server to provide teachers, students
and the historically-interested general public a source of
information about the Lower Rio Grande Heritage Corridor along the
border between Texas and Mexico. This area provides a fertile
place to study the interaction between cultures and the emergence
of a distinctive way of life that has been shaped by a variety of
forces.
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