"You'll take it and like it!"  ~~~~  Humphrey Bogart

The Sligar Brothers by Robb Kendrick, Still: Cowboys at the Start of the 21st Century

Sit down, Pilgrim. Every day oughta end like this.  Work is through, if only for now. So relax.  Sure, times are tough, but life is good and full of love and hope. Don't ever forget that.  Pour yourself one. Turn on the theme to "Wagon Train" as the sun sets, and grab a good book:

Documented Green King Sightings in the Tonopah Area by Jim Diez, BLM Tonopah Field Office, Mizpah Publications, 2008

Mein Jinglebobs Ringle und Bling: Forked Germans Share Their Secrets by Heidi und Franz Forked

The Last Wannabe by Mindy Bower, Epeleptic Horseman Publications, 2008

Single Rigged and Single for Life: Hot Dating Tips for Buckaroos by Cody Howe, Woody Harney, Norbert Gibson, edited by Pedro Marquez, June, 2008 GQ Magazine 

The Three C-Balleros: Ride Anything With Hair Without a Care by Chase Sligar, Clayton Souza and Clay Sligar, PRCA News Monthly, April, 2008

Still: How I Learned the Art of Moonshining from Buckaroos by Robb Kendrick, Dos Equis Publications, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2008

Mercenary Marketing Techniques by Dave and Gwynn Weaver, Red Bluff, 2005

I Was A Teenage Buckaroo Mistaken for An Amish Boy by T.J. Symonds, as told to Kurt Markus in the Taylor Canyon Club, Tuscarora, NV, New Years Eve, 1981, oral history published by The Western Horseman Magazine

With a Name Like Deeth Harney, What Else Can You Do?  Growing Up Forked & Wolfy: a Memoir,  Deeth Harney, Harper & Row, 2005 

Gathering Rudabegas: Confessions of a Vegetarian Great Basin Buckaroo by Spider Teller, Denio Press, 2001

A Night of Serious Drinking: Standing Room Only at the Horse Palace and The Stockmen's, a collaboration with Bill Maupin, Allen McDonald, Merv Takas, Ira Wines, and the Spanish and YP Ranch crews, January 2008, Elko, NV, Pendleton Press

Aim High, He's White King: Bow and Arrow Tactics and Technique, Tim Perryman, article in Bow and Arrow Magazine, June, 1989

My Hat’s Flatter Than Yours! Buckaroo Turf Wars in the Great Basin by C.J. Hadley, 2001, Carson City, NV, published by Range Magazine.

Buckaroo and Stay Beautiful: Great Basin Beauty Secrets by Ashley Riggs, Adrian and Nevada Watt, Elle Publications, 2008

Power Run to Elko by Ricky Morris & Hank Brackenbury; Reno, NV, 1992, self published.

Hold Rodears on $15.00 a Day: The Economical Rancher’s Bible to Getting the Most Out of Your Crew by Stanley Ellison and Willis Packer, Elko, NV, 1985, published by Simon & Schuster.

Roping Everything from Deer to Dogs: A Primer by Fritz Marek, Palamino Press, 1986

The Californio Mystique: Looking Good While Going Dead Broke by the Editors of British Vogue Magazine, 1993, London.

Raising Wagon Brats: A Memoir by Bill Maupin, Forward by Ed Hope, Andy Blasingame, Ken Craven, 1982, IL Publishing, Tuscarora, NV

Get Tough or Die! Surviving Multiple Head Injuries Sustained by Riding Colts & Roughstock by Tom Marvel and Bill Kane, 1980, Battle Mountain, NV, published by Yale University.

What Ever Happened to Two Rein Jane? Walt Fisher, Stubby Stanford and Herb French, 1988, Marvel Productions Press, Dunphy, NV.

Vanishing Booze: Buckaroos, Alcohol and Poetry, an Artful Convergence by William Albert Allard, 1979, published by Jack Daniels & Sons, TN.

After Barbs are Fired: What To Do After Your Cowboss Cleans House by Waddie Mitchell, photos by Kurt Markus, 1987, Montello, NV

Crapping on the Great Basin Buckaroo: The Resurgence of The Californios by C.J. Hadley, 2005, Range Magazine, Carson City, NV

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Maggie Creek Ranches and The Demise of Integrity on Big Buckaroo Outfits, by Anonymous, 2007, Self Publishes, Elko, NV

You Go To My Head: The Tim "Scooter" McGinnis Hat Collection presented by The Western Folklife Center, a program to accompany the exhibit of 127 custom made cowboy hats belonging to Nevada Buckaroo Tim McGinnis, 2006, Elko, NV, with guest curators Ed Bacon and Mona Gammel

Schutte's Shitters: Mustanging Tips for the Novice, Article for the Susanville Sentry, Edited by Clark Morris, September 4, 1984

Corset Land and Livestock: Running the Tightest Outfit There Was, Reputedly the Anonymous Memoirs of Two Rein Jane, self published, Battle Mountain, NV, 2004

Study Results by Science Applications International Corporation on The Co-relation between Stuffed Polar Bears and Acute Poetry Reciting Disorder (APRD), SAIC & the USDA, 2004, San Diego, CA.

The Highly Egg: Salted: A Buckaroo Cookbook, Compiled by the editors of Gourmet Magazine with a forward by Vernon Wilkins, Gil Litchfield and Randy Stowell, 1982, Elko, NV

The National Enquirer, week of April 1, 1994: Area 51 UFO Sightings: Mars Attacks or Amish Lids?

The Highly Defective: Dean Tobias True Confessions, The Globe, week of July 4, 2001

Baby Roos Snooze: Bedtime Story Book for Buckaroos Under 21 by Mr. Rogers

Wild Rag Pattern Book by Rick "The Master" Bates, 1980, self-published

Beef for Pussy: How Brian Morris Paid the Tab at Penny's, by Mike Lungren, Cathouse Publications, Winnemucca NV, 1981

Was He Real? Or Was it Memorex? Documented Martin Black Sightings in Texas by Chuck Norris, Buster Welch; Published by the Bob Wills Foundation, 2003, Dallas

Train Robbing in Modern Times by Pat Merika, self published, Dunphy Press, 1979

Rick Bates, John Adamson, Kent Craven and Jim Koepke: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Do The YP, documentary by Kenny Rogers, 1985, Sherman Oaks, CA

Rope Anything, Anytime, Anywhere With a Serene Disregard for Consequences by Arnold Rojas and Brenda Marin Negri with a forward by the Dalai Lama and Notorious Big, 1990, published by Riata Press, Visalia, CA.

Ode to the Cult of White King: A Songbook by Ian Tyson, Ross Knox and Mike Beck; includes the music and words to Stompin' at the Stockmens, When the Windows Fog Up at The Stray Dog, The Hal Cannon Reject Blues, The Night They Tased Sam Marvel Down, Crashin' the Californios, Ode to the Cult of White King, Maggie Creek Blow Up, Grand Canyon Serenade (Wedding Bells for Ross Knox), Shin Slappin' Schutte Shuffle, Does Claude Dallas Feel Malice, Droolin' Tom Marvel and Stutterin' Fritz, Potato Chip Truck Blues (John Adamson's Lament), Big Bad Wirecuttin' Leroy Horn, Filippini Fandango, The Argenta Blues, Pendleton Taster Don't Waste 'Er, Here I Come, Mona, Kurt's on the Wagon Again, Posin' for Willie, Mary Hyde Stole My Shadow, Tonopah Two Steppin with Green King, The Ballad of John Casey, and more. 

I Led Three Lives: Giant Kodiak, Iguana & Polar Bear; Recollections of a Commie Chasing Spy for the Government by Anonymous, Yale University Press, 1965