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September 23, 2024 75 mins

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.

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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

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