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Product Description: Meticulously compiled reference is the authoritative guide to everything in print about lawmen and the lawless — from Billy the Kid and Joaquín Murieta, to the Earp brothers of Tombstone and the painted ladies of frontier cow towns...read more

Product Description: This book, originally published in 1944, has 5,000 words of cowboy language as vibrant now as it was in the old American frontier. The native cowman forged his own language. Like other men of the soil, he created similes & metaphors, salty & unrefined, but sparkling with stimulating vigor...read more

Defines the usage, meaning, and background of words and phrases from the language of the Western frontier

Offers the memoirs of a cowboy and cattleman who left his Texas home at the age of twelve and worked at various ranches before becoming an active participant in Montana's cattle industry

Forward by Wayne Gard. Adams is recognized as the "foremost bibliographer and lexicographer of the West"

Product Description: The American cowboy emerges from these pages as a recognizable human being with little resemblance to the picturesque inventions of the horse opera. Ramon F. Adams, a highly respected authority on the old West, talks straight about what the cowhand really did and thought...read more

Product Description: 1982, hardcover edition (originally published in 1959), John Zubal, Cleveland, OH, 464 pages. 2,651 items listed / categorized / annotated by one of the great Western historians of the last century. Here is a bibliography of books and pamphlets on men and events in the cattle industry...read more

Product Description: Western Words: A Dictionary of the American West. by Raymon F. Adams

Product Description: Come an’ Get It was the most familiar and welcome call on the range era of the great trail drives following the Civil War. In this entertaining volume, Ramon F. Adams, author of the popular Western Words, tell the story of the old cowboy cooks, and the result is another highly original contribution to the folklore of the cattle country...read more