Cowboy Gear: Chaps
Leggin’s. Woolies. Batwings. Hair pants. Shotguns. Chinks are the shorter version. “Humans dress up but the cowboy dresses down.” Short...
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Cowboy Gear: BOOTS
Cowboy wear boots; high-heeled boots fit in the stirrups, custom-mades, or short tops were called “pee-wees”. The early...
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Cowboy Gear: Ropes
Slang terms for Cowboy Ropes included Line, string, ketch-rope, clothes line, throw rope, saddle rope, grass rope, twine, whale line, hard...
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Here’s One for Beef Night
Who else grew up with a freezer full of beef? Growing up in the middle of Texas beef country, everybody we knew had a chest freezer in...
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Way Out WEST
Happy National Day of the Cowboy! History has always fascinated me, more particularly stories about the American West. Maybe because my...
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