Cowboy Spurs And Their Makers.

JANE PATTIE

Publication: Texas A & M University Press, 1991, College Station

First edition. Quarto. Cloth, xvii [3], 172 pp., frontispiece, foreword, preface, introduction, illustrated, color plates, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Foreword by Don Worcester. Introduction by B. Byron Price. The fascinating story of this form of western art and the artisans who have developed it. Little beyond brief articles and paragraphs in books has been devoted to the history, manufacture, and use of spurs. As much as a badge of honor as a necessary piece of cowboy equipment, the spurs became a blacksnith's work of art. This well illustrated book will fill a slim niche, but a fascinating one on the makers and users of spurs in the Southwest, with an emphasis on Texas. Biographical sketches of August Buermann, North & Judd, John Robert McChesney, P. M. Kelly, Oscar Crockett, E. F. Blanchard, and many others. The appendix provides a list of spur makers. Also a splendid bibliography is provided. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 50534