The tradition of storytelling and folklore reaches deeply into the American notion of national identity, and among the more prominent emblems of American culture stands the cowboy. Despite the attempts to modernize the cowboy of our frontier past, today's mounted horsemen have learned how to adapt to a rapidly changing worldwhile tenaciously holding on to their heritage. Tall tales and yarns make up a great amount of the folklore of this literary tradition, yet woven throughout such stories stir an American mixture of humor, wisdom, and philosophy. In ""Horsing Around"", Clayton, Davis, and Collins draw upon the vast amount of anecdotes portraying the lighter side of working on the range. The collected vignettes in ""Horsing Around"" will provide the collector of Texana greater accessibility to stories that are often told only at public performances.
Curt Brummett: A True Story about Cats: How Not to Get Rich Quick The Good Jobs I Always Get Old Tom was a Good Old Cat Windmiller or Windmillie: There's Ample Fun for All Good Groceries and Clean Dishes Do Gooders Don't Always Do That Much Good John R.Erickson: Summer Cowboys Sometimes Welcome Advent of Autumn Wild Cattle Boxing Gloves Are Cheaper than a Broken Hand A Bitter Lesson The Devil in Texas Paul Patterson: Night Horse Nightmare Rags to Riches to Rags The Texan that Thunk Small Hit's Tough Bein' a Texas Well, Well, Well Baxter Black The Vanishing Breed? Crossbred Stew Hello, I'm from the Government...I'm Here to Help You The Cow Committee A Rider, a Roper, and a Hell'uva Windmill Man In Defense of the Chicken The Oyster The #2 Hairball Sam Brown: When Cowboys Sniff a Cork Dear Mister Hollywood Movie Producer A Worthless Old Cow Dear Larry King The Wages of Sin What Would You Say? Lawrence Clayton: The Bull and the Motorboat A Night Out in Austin The Bulldozed Tree and the Bronc Wintertime Wrecks An Aborted Cowboy Courtship It Was a Big Bunch of Bull ""If You Can Catch It, I'll Ride It"" Some Still Drink Some Cowboy Revenge The Dynamited Dog Milk-pen Humor A Cowboy Joke Cowboy Tall Tales Kenneth W. Davis: A Rose by Any Other Name--Some Cowboy Nicknames Singing the Bare Body Electric in Texas Ranching Country A Texas Cusser in the Twentieth Century Persuaded to Piety What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You John R. Erickson: Thoroughbreds The Mad Hatter Republican to the Death LBJ Was Here Confessions of a Cowdog Elmer Kelton: The Coyote Hunt Benjamin Capps: Slim Wilkinson Carolyn Osborn: My Brother is a Cowboy
