Episode 62: Yippee Ki Yay! Cowboys and Westerns in American Culture

Yee-haw!! The Two Humans saddle up and go in search of the American cowboy in legend and reality!

Episode 62: Yippee Ki Yay! Cowboys and Westerns in American Culture

An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans

Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.

http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542

IG @introtoanthrowith2humans

Merch: cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=136195011

 

Resources:

 

Beard, Tyler

1992   The Cowboy Boot Book. Peregrine Smith Books, Salt Lake City, UT.

 

Butler, Anne M.

1987   Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL.

 

Cawelti, John G.

1974   Savagery, Civilization and the Western Hero. Focus on the Western (ed. Jack Nachbar), Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, pp. 57-63.

 

Drillinger, Meagan and Olivia Monahan

2023   50 Best Western TV Shows of All Time. Stacker, July 2, 2023, stacker.com/tv/50-best-western-tv-shows-all-time.

 

Etulain, Richard W.

1974   Cultural Origins of the Western. Focus on the Western (ed. Jack Nachbar), Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, pp. 19-24.

 

Fishwick, Marshall W.

1952   The Cowboy: America’s Contribution to the World’s Mythology. Western Folklore, Apr., 1952, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Apr., 1952), pp. 77-92.

 

Folsom, James K.

1967   ‘Western’ Themes and Western Films. Western American Literature, Fall 1967, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Fall 1967), pp. 195-203.

 

Forbis, William H.

1973   The Old West: The Cowboys. Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA.

 

Frayling, Christopher

1981   Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Westerns from Karl May to Sergio Leone. Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd. London, UK.

 

Kitses, Jim

1974   The Western: Ideology and Archetype. Focus on the Western (ed. Jack Nachbar), Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, pp. 64-72.

 

McLoughlin, Denis

1975   Wild and Woolly: An Encyclopedia of the Old West. Writers House, Inc. (Barnes & Noble Books), New York, NY.

 

McReynolds, Douglas J.

1998   Alive and Well: Western Myth in Western Movies. Literature/Film Quarterly, 1998, Vol. 26, No. 1 (1998), pp. 46-52.

 

Nachbar, Jack

1974   Introduction. Focus on the Western (ed. Jack Nachbar), Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, pp. 1-8.

 

Paul, Heike

2014   The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies.  [Transcript] Publishing, Bielefeld, Germany.

 

Rutter, Michael

2005   Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West. Farcountry Press, Helena, MT.

 

Stoeltje, Beverly J.

2012   Paredes and the Hero: The North American Cowboy Revisited. The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 125, No. 495 (Winter 2012), pp. 45-68.

 

Turner, Frederick Jackson

1893   The Significance of the Frontier in American History. In The Frontier in American History (edited by Frederick Jackson Turner, published in 1921), Henry Holt and Company, New York.