Don Bell had the west in his eyes and heart. He was twelve when he entered his first rodeo contest. Until 1943 he competed in rough stock events, such as calf roping, team roping, steer wrestling, and saddle bronc, and appeared at such venues as Soldier Field in Chicago and the Boston Gardens. Don was part of the Clyde Miller Wild West Show, the Bill King Rodeo Co., and Rufus Rollins’ Wild West Show. In the Western movie Shane, he rode a bucking horse in a muddy street scene. Don was an original Gold Card-holding member of the Cowboy Turtle Association, the first professional rodeo association, and an honorary cardholder of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. The rodeo gear he wore is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institute. …show more content…
Don and Ernie found themselves having to flee from a foxhole under attack by artillery shells. Ernie had his Smith-Corona typewriter with him and was forced to leave it behind. During the fight to regain the ground, Don managed to retrieve the lucky typewriter and had it shipped home. Years later he donated it to the museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and it is still there today. ✭ Don only stopped cowboying long enough to write about it, on his own Smith-Corona typewriter. Don kept an old sheep wagon in his Wyoming front yard. He had a phone installed in there, and he used the wagon as his writing office. ✭ I met and photographed Don in the late 1980s and had the pleasure of spending the evening at his house and having coffee with him at sunrise. As a professional photographer, I had seen a lot of sunrises, but not as many as Don; he never missed a single one. His days always held so much. I knew he was someone special, and I wish I had recorded his many stories with more than my heart and a few photos. I still remember his advise to me when I was heading north from his home to camp for the first time in grizzly country. Don’s sage words were, “Just remember . .
Fred Hatch was an American agricultural inventor. It's hard to picture the farmscape without a silo or some type of farmyard, an old run down barn and especially a tower silo. When you think of barns you also should think of silos. The towering, vertical silos we imagine today, especially here located in the Midwest, are a true American innovation and go hand in hand with barns. Farm grain wasn't always stored in silos; it was stored in pits where farmers had to dig out which caused excess spoil in many instances. In 1873, silos were nonexistent.
When you think your average baseball player, what do you think of? The player usually has all of his arms, legs, and no physical disabilities. Anyone who plays baseball would think it is hard to imagine that a person born without a right arm is able to play the game and let only be able to be a pitcher. Jim Abbott faces all the odds and has ten-year career in the major leagues. Abbott had to faces many obstacles throughout life and his playing career. Jim Abbott grew up being picked on since he didn’t have a right arm. When Abbott was younger he would use a steel hook as right hand and other children were afraid of him. Also, they called him names like Mr. Hook.
The setting of the essay is Los Angeles in the 1800’s during the Wild West era, and the protagonist of the story is the brave Don Antonio. One example of LA’s Wild West portrayal is that LA has “soft, rolling, treeless hills and valleys, between which the Los Angeles River now takes its shilly-shallying course seaward, were forest slopes and meadows, with lakes great and small. This abundance of trees, with shining waters playing among them, added to the limitless bloom of the plains and the splendor of the snow-topped mountains, must have made the whole region indeed a paradise” (Jackson 2). In the 1800’s, LA is not the same developed city as today. LA is an undeveloped land with impressive scenery that provides Wild West imagery. One characteristic of the Wild West is the sheer commotion and imagery of this is provided on “the first breaking out of hostilities between California and the United States, Don Antonio took command of a company of Los Angeles volunteers to repel the intruders” (15). This sheer commotion is one of methods of Wild West imagery Jackson
Joseph Porter’s, “A River of Promise” provides a detailed report of the first explorers of the North American West. The piece engages in a well written secondary source to argue that the expedition of Lewis and Clark, the two famously known for exploring the American Western frontier, were credited for significant findings that were not completely their own. Joseph C. Porter utilizes text from diaries and journals to highlight the help and guidance from the natives and prior European explorers which ultimately allowed the Lewis and Clark expedition to occur. The document by Porter also reveals that Lewis and Clark at the time were establishing crucial government documents which were the structure for scientific, technological and social understanding
Many of the great poems we read today were written in times of great distress. One of these writers was Randall Jarrell. After being born on May 6, 1914, in Nashville Tennessee, Jarrell and his parents moved to Los Angeles where his dad worked as a photographer. When Mr. and Mrs. Jarrell divorced, Randall and his younger brother returned to Nashville to live with their mother. While in Nashville, Randall attended Hume-Frogg high school. Randall showed his love for the arts while in high school by participating in dramatics and journalism. Jarrell continued his career in the arts when he wrote and edited for Vanderbilt’s humor magazine, The Vanderbilt Masquerader. After earning his graduate degree at Vanderbilt, Jarrell accepted a teaching job at the University of Texas. While teaching at Texas, Jarrell met his future wife, Mackie Langham, a fellow English teacher. In 1942, Jarrell left home to join the Army Air Corps as a flying cadet. At about this same time, Randall’s first book of poetry was being published. When Jarrell wrote home, his family often said his letters were, “confined and dreary.” When Jarrell could not quite cut it as a cadet, he switched to being a navigation control tower operator. As a control tower operator, Randall began to write about the pilots, navigators and gunners of the war. This is probably when Jarrell wrote one of his most famous poems, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner.” After being discharged from the army, Randall went back to teaching. Randall’s love for teaching showed by his famous quote, “if I were a rich man, I would pay money to teach.” Randall did have some psychiatric problems though. Many people thought Jarrell committed suicide when he was hit by a car on a dark road in 1965. People assumed suicide because at the time of his death Randall was in treatment for slitting his wrists in an attempt to kill himself. Most of Randall’s poetry reflects what he saw and experienced during the war.
The image of the cowboy as Jennifer Moskowitz notes in her article “The Cultural Myth of the Cowboy, or, How the West was Won” is “uniquely
Melvin Archie Jr. was born on 05/13/1948, in Canton, Mississippi, to Melvin and Lillie Mae Archie. Melvin's parents were married for twenty years before they divorced. Melvin and Lillie Mae had 2 children together. They are Melvin Archie Jr, age 67 and lives in St. Louis, Missouri and Nancy Archie, who passed away in 1994 of throat cancer, she was 44 years old. Melvin has 3 paternal half-brothers but he doesn't have a relationship with them other than limited Facebook contact. He attributes this to the large age gap. He stated that they live in Centralia, Illinois. Both of Melvin's parents worked outside of the home. His father was an oiler repairman for Missouri Portland Cement Company and his mother was a cook at a family owned restaurant
The development of the Western genre originally had its beginnings in biographies of frontiersmen and novels written about the western frontier in the late 1800’s based on myth and Manifest Destiny. When the film industry decided to turn its lenses onto the cowboy in 1903 with The Great Train Robbery there was a plethora of literature on the subject both in non-fiction and fiction. The Western also found roots in the ‘Wild West’ stage productions and rodeos of the time. Within the early areas of American literature and stage productions the legend and fear of the west being a savage untamed wilderness was set in the minds of the American people. The productions and rodeos added action and frivolity to the Western film genre.
Don Imus had a radio talk show. One day he was discussing the NCAA Women's Championship and the Rutger's women's basketball team. He and his co-worker were saying very inappropriate things about the women's basketball team. They called them thing such as, "hardcore hoes," "rough women," and "nappy-headed hos." Imus was trying to defend himself by saying the term, "nappy-headed hos" came from a black community. They weren't fired at first but only suspended shortly after his apology statement. Apparently this hasn't been the first time Imus has said some racist thing. causing some people to believe he shouldn't be able to come back after the suspension. Imus ended up getting pulled from his talk show.
Roger Sherman was born on 19, 1721 in Newton Massachusetts. He was the second child to be born to his Dad William Sherman and his mother Mehetabel Sherman. Roger’s father supported the family by farming and the work of shoemaking. Roger’s mother was known to have strong moral values, and instill those values into her children. At the age of three, his father had moved the family to Soughton which used to be a frontier town, and was located seventeen miles South of Boston. His father worked as Cordwainer and a farmer and taught Roger about his trade. Roger had a very limited education, and only had his dad’s library. However, Roger craved to read and learn to during his free time to help benefit his education and knowledge. But Roger did
It was 12:00 at night, but I was still wide awake. I was anxious for the trip that was in store for me. The next morning I drove to the airport and took a flight to Colorado. I rented a car and drove to Red Cliffs lodge in Moab, Utah. Moab is a dry, desert town in Utah located right next to Canyonlands national park where I would spend most of my time. Right as I got out of the car I could see the beautiful canyonlands scenery. The gigantic cliffs of the island in the sky loomed over the lodge. The blue waters of the Colorado river ran behind the lodge. My room was spacious and had a great view of the cliffs. The best part of the room was the window right above my bed. That night I fell asleep gazing at a full moon and a sky full of stars.
In order to set up the myth, Ford must establish the primary antagonist: the Comanche. Our first encounter with the Comanche occurs at
Few Hollywood film makers have captured America’s Wild West history as depicted in the movies, Rio Bravo and El Dorado. Most Western movies had fairly simple but very similar plots, including personal conflicts, land rights, crimes and of course, failed romances that typically led to drinking more alcoholic beverages than could respectfully be consumed by any one person, as they attempted to drown their sorrows away. The 1958 Rio Bravo and 1967 El Dorado Western movies directed by Howard Hawks, and starring John Wayne have a similar theme and plot. They tell the story of a sheriff and three of his deputies, as they stand alone against adversity in the name of the law. Western movies like these two have forever left a memorable and lasting impressions in the memory of every viewer, with its gunfighters, action filled saloons and sardonic showdowns all in the name of masculinity, revenge and unlawful aggressive behavior. Featuring some of the most famous backdrops in the world ranging from the rustic Red Rock Mountains of Monument Valley in Utah, to the jagged snow capped Mountain tops of the Teton Range in Wyoming, gun-slinging cowboys out in search of mischief and most often at their own misfortune traveled far and wide, seeking one dangerous encounter after another, and unfortunately, ending in their own demise.
Being so close to the pacific coast- a mere ten or twelve miles- a thick marine layer had rolled in during the night, and the waning summer sun had not yet mustered the heat to dispel it. We moved to the crunch and scrape of rubber sole on loose stone, passing ancient monoliths of serpentine stone that jutted from the mountain on either side. Vague silhouettes of live oaks and yucca plants loomed from the morning mist, and occasionally a hoarse crow would cry out. Above and beside us power lines carried electricity to private homes hidden down the road, occasionally...
Strayed, Cheryl. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. Print.