{"id":430,"date":"2014-07-25T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/a-day-on-the-range-2\/"},"modified":"2014-07-25T18:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T18:41:00","slug":"a-day-on-the-range-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/a-day-on-the-range-2.html","title":{"rendered":"A Day on the Range"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nCalling All Cowboys<\/p>\n

In the US we have a \u201cmini\u201d holiday every day.  For instance \u201ctake you cat to work day” or \u201cpotato farmers\u2019 appreciation day\u201d.  Well, this weekend is Cowboy Appreciation Day.  Here, in the west, we take our cowboys seriously.  When I was growing up every boy and girl had, at one time or another, a cowboy\/cowgirl outfit complete with hat, boots, fringed jacket, sheriff\u2019s badge and a holstered cap gun.
\nTV shows made life on the ranch seem glamorous, exciting and a bit dangerous.<\/p>\n

\nThis part of Americana has left us a legacy of designer cowboy boots and hats, which fetch a tidy sum, for wannabe wranglers. We wear jeans with designer labels and western embroidered motifs (even though Levis were initially manufactured for laborers, not cowboys).   Some of our best occasions for entertaining are rodeos and, in Santa Fe, the upcoming \u201cBuckaroo Ball\u201d, a charity event.<\/p>\n

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“The cowboy is America’s most prominent and enduring symbolic figure.  He has come to represent American manhood and a spirit of  self-reliance and independence”<\/p>\n

Cowboy: The Enduring Myth of the Wild West, Russel Martin, Stewart, Tabori and Chang, Pub., NY, 1983<\/p>\n

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“No cowboy history is complete without accessories … from the Stetson and flowing neckerchief to the lavishly embroidered and fringed shirts.”<\/p>\n

\nCowboy: How Hollywood invented The Wild West, Holly George-Warren, Reader’s Digest Assoc., Inc., NY, 2002<\/p>\n

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\nArt of the Boot, Tyler Beard, Gibbs-Smith Pub., Salt Lake City, 1999<\/p>\n

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\nThe American Bandanna:: Culture on Cloth from George Washington to Elvis, Hillary Weiss, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1990<\/p>\n

So dust off those chaps and spurs!!<\/p>\n

 Happy Trails<\/p>\n

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