Cowboy Bits and Spurs

Cowboy Bits and Spurs
Author: Joice I. Overton
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Bits (Bridles)
ISBN: 9780764317187

This book combines "Working Cowboy" knowledge with "Cowboy Collectibles," describing the actual usage, background, and value of cowboy bits and spurs. It contains photos, diagrams, and detailed text describing the various bits, spurs, leather bridles, and other related accessories, dating back to the mid-1800s. This book is a great resource for both the collector and the modern day cowboy.

Bits and Spurs

Bits and Spurs
Author: Ned Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2003-05-01
Genre: Bits (Bridles)
ISBN: 9780965994743

This lavishly illustrated book describes techniques used in working metal over 300 years as well as the motifs used by bit and spur makers over many centuries. There are biographies of 121 contemporary bit and spur makers.

Tools of the Cowboy Trade

Tools of the Cowboy Trade
Author: Casey Beard
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Cowboys
ISBN: 9780879057329

The trappings of the cowboy trade are mementos of a romantic heritage, of the frontier life, whether they hang in a Glasgow country club or on a buckaroo's tack room wall. This text is a celebration of cowboy paraphernalia, also including a source guide to the world's top 30 crafters.

Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers

Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers
Author: Jane Pattie
Publisher: TAMU Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1991
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Includes material on August Buermann, North & Judd, John Robert McChesney and the Texas-style spur, P.M. Kelly, Oscar Crockett and the Crockett Bit & Spur Company, Bischoff and Shipley, Robert Lincoln Causey, Joe Bianchi and the Victoria Shank, the Boone family, J.O. Bass, Jess Hodge, E.F. Blanchard, Adolph Bayers.

Bit and Spur Makers in the Texas Tradition

Bit and Spur Makers in the Texas Tradition
Author: Ned Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2000
Genre: Bits (Bridles)
ISBN: 9780965994729

This is the definitive book on all the old bit and spur makers of the Texas region who were working between 1870 and 1970. There are 63 makers featured with stunning photographs of their work, their maker's mark and a biography of each maker. The origins of the Texas style are traced in the history of bits and spurs brought to the New World from England, France and Spain.

American Cowboy

American Cowboy
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2002-07
Genre:
ISBN:

Published for devotees of the cowboy and the West, American Cowboy covers all aspects of the Western lifestyle, delivering the best in entertainment, personalities, travel, rodeo action, human interest, art, poetry, fashion, food, horsemanship, history, and every other facet of Western culture. With stunning photography and you-are-there reportage, American Cowboy immerses readers in the cowboy life and the magic that is the great American West.

Bit and Spur Makers in the Vaquero Tradition

Bit and Spur Makers in the Vaquero Tradition
Author: Ned Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1997
Genre: Bits (Bridles)
ISBN: 9780965994705

This handsome book covers bit-and-spur makers through all of the Western states as well as Mexico and the Northeast. Detailed timelines and maps of each region locate makers and saddleries. A valuable research tool for anyone interested in cowboy gear, Bit and Spur Makers In the Vaquero Tradition gives one a glimpse of life in the West when horses were the primary means of transportation.

How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear

How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear
Author: Bruce Grant
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1956
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9780870330346

A guide to making cowboy horse gear includes instructions on bridles, hackamores, reins, reatas, quirts, and riding crops, and features a section by Lee Rice on western saddles.