The Day The Cowboys Quit Essay

The novel, The Day the Cowboys Quit, by Elmer Kelton is not a typical cowboy story filled with waving guns and violent fights. Instead, this story shows what the real life of a cowboy would have been like through the story of Hugh Hitchcock. The Day the Cowboys Quit is based on a cowboy strike that occurred in Tascosa, Texas in 1883. Kelton based his fictional story on the causes of the strike and what became as a result of the strike. This paper will explain historical events concerning the cowboys and depict their true lifestyle which contrasts the stereotypes normally associated with being a cowboy, as well as summarize the novel The Day the Cowboys Quit.

In the movie Shane, many characters are relying on individualism to get them through life and be successful. Joe Starrett’s family is a hard working frontier family living on a cattle farm in the west. Along with them are several other families who have settled around them in the country, around a small town. Conflict begins when the Rykers come and demand that Starrett has squatted on his land and that he need to give up is homestead. A stranger, Shane steps in and sides with Starrett.

Everywhere you looked their were deer. My dad and cousin were grilling supper one time and they came in the house for a few minutes and when they looked outside their was 3 deer in his backyard. So we were all pretty excited to go hunting the next day because their were so many deer around the area. The first day if hunting we went into the Black Hills and did a lot if walking to find some deer. When we finally found some my brother was the first to shoot, since he picked the bigger straw out of three, which was how we decided who gets to shoot first, he missed.

In Sarah Gleeson-White’s article, Playing Cowboys: Genre, Myth, and Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, she talks about how “Cormac McCarthy moved from the South to the Southwest in the 1970s, so did the settings and associated meanings of his novels.” This novel is somewhat related to the background of the author and the transitions they went through. John Grady Cole is a representation of the last generation cowboy of Western ancestry. As written in All the Pretty Horses, “People dont feel safe no more, he said. We’re like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We dont know what’s goin to show up here come daylight.” (McCarthy p. 25-26) John Grady’s father is talking to him about the last of their kind, also a reflection to the last of that time

Biological and Environmental Imagery and Jargon in The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath chronicles the movement of the Joad family and thousands of other tenant farmers westward from Oklahoma, as drought and its resulting economic hardship force them to leave behind their homes. His profound and lifelong interest in biology is reflected in many places in his novel (Guthrie). He uses biological and environmental imagery and jargon in the interchapters to contrast and enhance the value of community that is unique to the human animal seen in the cooperative diction in the narrative chapters. Steinbeck uses biological and environmental imagery and jargon to detail the importance of topsoil and the impact of drought

Owen and many others hunt to manage the population of the deer and for the meat. They do this so there is enough food in the woods for the deer to survive. We asked Owen why he does this and he said “I do this for the enjoyment ,and joy of being in the wood also my family eats the meat.” Hunters also pay for their tags and this money is used to manage the land for the deer. Now you see why it is so important to hunt for the land and for the

Throughout my childhood, my siblings and I would go out her place for the summer to assist in any chores, while we spent time with cousins and relatives. We called this place “sheep camp”. To this current day, it is sad to say, many of children will not experience, “sheep camp”. Our families and relatives now reside on ½ acre lots compared to acres and acres of land that was shared among families. The half-acre lots are currently leased to them for 100 years.

They still were tanning a buffalo hide on the reservation. Although they were not allowed to kill or have any weapons so they had to go against the law and find a way to kill and get the buffalo. They were tanning it to make coats, shoes, clothes,   The westward expansion helped people in many ways from keeping their culture going or starting a new one. This was a big step up from when they had to do everything on their own now they could build cities and own farms and cattle.The people would also start to

Habitat development is a piece of land that is owned by the state which allows game wardens to help produce the animals and make environments a lot more healthy like planting more agricultural and more vegetation for animals to have more friendly environment. There is also a special specific wildlife area program that offers big pieces of landscape for animals that are going extinct and need to be brought back up to population standards. Every penny that is contributed to hunting equipment some of the money goes to out game lands and buying property to develop more game lands for hunter to hunt so they will not have to buy their own land or join into a

Mandan men were hunters and sometimes went to war to protect their families. Only men became Mandan chiefs. Mandan women were farmers and did most of the child care and cooking. The Mandans frequently fought with the Dakota Sioux and Shoshones. The Mandan people have contributed to modern America by making beautiful artwork, having ceremonies, clothing and helping Lewis and Clark.

the rules just like today are different from state to state or county to county so no one could really figure out the game to like cheat because of the rule changes from year to year. in 1969 eight representatives from different states got together to create a uniform book of rules, which then formed the N.T.P.A (national tractor pulling association) in their first year they used mainly farm vehicles and went by the motto “pull on sunday,plow on monday”that stayed the same through the 1970s using mainly modified and stock farm tractors. stock tractor where your normal farm tractor that you would see on a normal day plowing the field. a modified tractor is a tractor with a more powerful non tractor motor on it the tractors stayed single engined until later a couple brothers from ohio had built a multiple engine tractor. after that people were building tractors with 2,3,4 motors and the guys who had stayed with single engines tried to catch up by modifying their motors with intercooled turbos and injectors which then made the competition harder and harder

Sam Houston was a soldier and politician famous for his act of bringing Texas into the United States as a constituent state.Independence from Mexico was sealed with his victory from Mexico.Sam Houston was born in Virginia and he was also a congressman,lawyer,and senator in tennessee. Sam Houston moved to Texas in 1832 and became a part of the conflict between U.S Settlers and the Mexican government.Houston was became a commander of the settlers local army.In April 1836 Sam Houston and his army conquered Mexican General Santa Anna at San Jacinto to fortify Texan independence.He became president in 1836 through a vote also in 1841, then became as a senator after Texas joined the U.S. and became a state in 1845.Sam Houston eventually got a town named after him and even a county.Sam Houston was a great commander,but a better Hero to Texas and all america. David (Davy) Crockett was born in 1786 to a family of pioneers who lived on Nolichucky River in a east part of Tennessee.His family constantly followed a western settlement.They moved three times by the age of twelve.When he was an adult and he also had a family he went west and settled in northwest

Before the Union forces are defeated, the Governors of Colorado and Kansas receive word and assemble a volunteer force. The Unions outcome at the Battle of Glorieta Pass would ultimately be decided by the volunteers from Colorado, Kansas, and New Mexico. In March of 1862, Colonel P Slough marches his volunteer force of roughly 900 men, most of which were miners, to Fort Union, New Mexico. Once there, Col. Slough joined with the 1,500 New Mexico Volunteers and marched on the Santa Fe Trail to establish a defensive position in Glorieta Pass. Once Col. Slough left Fort Union, he moved his forces to the entrance of Glorieta Pass.

“Everyone knows the henchmen of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover told prairie ranchers it was safe to plow the prairie grass and turn their cattle ranch into a wheat farm. When the drought years arrived, they made the Red River Valley into the Dust Bowl.” “It’s always the Republicans. Isn’t it?” “They made an alliance with the Wall Street Banks,” John said and went on to explain that the banks planned to drive the family farmer into bankruptcy, reprocess their land and sell it to corporate farmers. The banks gave them generous, oh so generous loans. They encouraged them to overproduce.

To reach Abilene, Kansas it usually took three months. A Texas cattle raiser neighbors and question them if they wanted to contribute to the drive and it cost $1-1.50 per person contract their cattle to the drover. Panel X The chuck wagon. The chuck wagon was the hub of the trail drive. The men watch forward to the end of the day, when they would gather to rest and eat.