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Cowboy boots are some of the most recognizable dress icons in the United States and symbolize the American West. The mythology of these material culture objects has been built over hundreds of years in many types of oral and written narratives. The purpose of this study was to combine secondary sources focusing on specific dimensions of cowboy boots with interviews of bootmakers and firm owners, developing...
Lightning provoke fear, fright and many material and personal losses in the urban environment, corroborated by the agglomeration of people and concentration of high buildings. No less terrified, however, are the inhabitants of the countryside, including the animals, in the occurrences of atmospheric discharges. This article deals with the action of lightning that victimized a horse and a cowboy, on...
Americans are interested in the American Borderland, its mysterious and romantic heroes as well as potential settlers, writers, journalists, politicians, artists, and historians in the course of time. Thanks to writing of some authors such as James Filmore Cooper, Mark Twain, Owen Wister, historical stories, films (mostly western), most heroes from Frontiers (positive and negative) are in American...
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