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• Cowboy lore. (Naylor Co., 1943), by Jules Verne Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Talk like a cowboy; a dictionary of real western lingo for young cowboys and cowgirls. (Naylor Co., 1955), by Beth Day Romulo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboy lore (Naylor, 1950), by Jules Verne Allen and Ralph J. Pereida (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• "Language of the Mosshorn": A Glossary of Cowboy Lingo, Rodeo Terms, Dude Ranch Jargon, Range Profanity and Other Western Expressions (Billings, MT: Gazette Printing Co., c1936), ed. by Don McCarthy, illust. by Will James and Dale Petit (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Story of the Cowboy (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1897), by Emerson Hough, illust. by William L. Wells and Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chisholm Trail: A History of the World's Greatest Cattle Trail (Guthrie, OK: Co-Operative Pub. Co., c1936), by Sam P. Ridings (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cow country (University of Oklahoma press, 1943), by Edward Everett Dale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The outlet (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905), by Andy Adams, E. Boyd Smith, Riverside Press, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and Houghton Mifflin Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboys north and south (C. Scribner's sons, 1926), by Will James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rangeland melodies (Casper, Wy : Casper Stationery Company, ©1923., 1923), by E. Richard Shipp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lane of the Llano, being the story of Jim (Lane) Cook (Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by James M. Cook and T. M. Pearce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The log of a cowboy; a narrative of the old trail days (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1903), by Andy Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cowboy and his interpreters. (D. Appleton and company, 1926), by Edward Douglas Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of a dude-wrangler (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924., 1924), by Maxwell Struthers Burt and Larry Dingman Western Fiction Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wyoming cattle trails, history of the migration of Oregonraised herds to mid-western markets. (Caxton Printers, 1948), by John K. Rollinson and E. A. Brininstool (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riata and spurs; the story of a lifetime spent in the saddle as cowboy and ranger (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927), by Charles A. Siringo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twilight on the range; recollections of a latterday cowboy. (University of Texas Press, 1962), by William Timmons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cowman's Southwest : being the reminiscences of Oliver Nelson, freighter, camp cook, cowboy, frontiersman in Kansas, Indian Territory, Texas, and Oklahoma, 1878-1893 (A. H. Clark Co., 1953), by Oliver Nelson and Angie Debo (page images at HathiTrust)
• My frontier days and Indian fights on the plains of Texas (Henry W. Strong, 1925), by Henry W. Strong (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the cowboy (Grosser & Dunlap, 1925), by Emerson Hough (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cowboy : his characteristics, his equipment, and his part in the development of the West (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922), by Philip Ashton Rollins and Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ranch life and the hunting-trail (The Century co., 1899), by Theodore Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ranch life and the hunting-trail (Century Co., 1896), by Theodore Roosevelt and Frederic Remington (page images at HathiTrust)
• A vaquero of the brush country (The Southwest Press, 1929), by J. Frank Dobie and John Duncan Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboys, Indians, & the big picture (McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College ;, 2002), by Heather Fryer and McMullen Museum of Art (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cowboy and his interpreters. (Cooper Square Publishers, 1961), by Edward Douglas Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Horse sense ain't common (Naylor, 1938), by Harry Adelbert Pyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men and horses (The Century co., 1926), by Ross Santee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The open range, and Bunk house philosophy (Colorado Herald Pub. Co.], 1930), by Oscar Rush (page images at HathiTrust)
• The end of the long horn trail (Selfridge jounal, 1936), by A. P. Black (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboy lore (Nayor printing company, 1933), by Jules Verne Allen and G. Embry Eitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ed Nichols rode a horse (Texas Folklore Society and University Press in Dallas, 1943), by Edwin Seymour Nichols, Ruby Jane Nichols Cutbirth, and Texas Folklore Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Let'er buck : a story of the passing of the old West (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1927), by Charles Wellington Furlong (page images at HathiTrust)
• The log of a cowboy (Houghton Mifflin company, 1955), by Andy Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rawhide and song; a comparative study of the cattle cultures of the Argentinian pampa and North American Great Plains. (Vantage Press, 1963), by Stephen Paullada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Back trailing in the heart of the short grass country (s. n., 1956), by John O. Bye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cow-boy life in Texas: or, 27 years a mavrick (!) (M.A. Donohue & co., 1898), by W. S. James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten years a cowboy (Rhodes & McClure, 1890), by Tex Bender (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten years a cowboy (Rhodes & McClure, 1898), by C. C. Post (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the cowboy (D. Appleton, 1898), by Emerson Hough (page images at HathiTrust)
• True life in the far West by the American cow-boy (C. Stanley, 1900), by Clark Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cowboy ... (America of the Americans Society, 1903), by Emerson Hough (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cowboy ... (The Brampton Society, 1897), by Emerson Hough (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Texas cow-boy (Chicago, M.Umbdenstock, 1885), by Charles A 1855- Siringo (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Texas cow boy; or, Fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony. (Siringo & Dobson, 1886), by Charles A. Siringo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evolution of the cow-puncher (Harper, 1895), by Owen Wister and Frederic Remington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboys and cattleland (Printed for the author by the Parthenon press, 1937), by H.H. Halsell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The light of western stars, a romance (Grosset & Dunlap, 1914), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cowboy. (Brampton Society, 1908), by Emerson Hough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten years a cowboy (Rhodes & McClure Publishing Company, 1903), by C. C. Post (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads (The Macmillan co., 1916), by John A. Lomax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cow-boy life in Texas, or, 27 years a mavrick (M.A. Donohue, 1893), by Will S. James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cow-boy life in Texas, or, 27 years a mavrick [!] A realistic and true recital of wild life on the boundless plains of Texas, being the actual experience of twenty-seven years in the exciting life of a genuine cow-boy among the roughs and toughs of Texas. Over fifty illustrations, taken from life. (Donohue, Henneberry, 1893), by Will S. James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads (Sturgis & Co., 1910), by John A. Lomax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ranch life and the hunting-trail (The Century co., 1888), by Theodore Roosevelt, Frederic Remington, and Radcliffe College. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the cowboy (Grosset & Dunlap, 1897), by Emerson Hough and William L. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ranch life and the hunting-trail : an account of life in the cattle country of the Far West (Gebbie and Co, 1903), by Theodore Roosevelt and Frederic Remington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten years a cowboy. (Rhodes & McClure Publishing Co., 1888), by C. C. Post (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ranch life and the hunting-trail (The Century co., 1911), by Theodore Roosevelt and Frederic Remington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and adventures of the cowboy (Morrell brothers, 1880), by John. H. Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboy lore. (Naylor Co., 1943), by Jules Verne Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riding the high country (The Caxton printers, ltd., 1933), by Patrick T. Tucker and Grace Stone Coates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cow country (New York : Grossett & Dunlap, 1927), by Will James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboys and cattle trails (Harper & Row, 1962), by Shannon Garst, Jack Merryweather, and Warren Garst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old ranches (Dealey and Lowe, 1936), by Minnie Timms Harper and George Dewey Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The log of a cowboy : a narrative of the old trail days (Houghton Mifflin, 1931), by Andy Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Last of the vaqueros (Academy Library Guild, 1960), by A. R. Rojas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The drifting cowboy (C. Scribner's sons, 1930), by Will James (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cowboy, his characteristics, his equipment, and his part in the development of the West. (Scribner, 1930), by Philip Ashton Rollins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life and adventures of the genuine cowboy (Valparaiso, Ind., 1905), by John H. Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West. (Wichita Print. Co., 1935), by Tex Moore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The West of yesterday (The Times-Mirror Press, 1923), by Tom Mix and J. B. M. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and adventures of the American cow-boy. Life in the far west ([Providence?, 1900), by Clark Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Virginian, a horseman of the plains (The Macmillan Company, 1902), by Owen Wister (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ten years a cowboy. (Rhodes & McClure Pub. Co., 1889), by C. C. Post (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboys. (American Education Press, 1936), by Eleanor M. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dude ranch; the story of a modern cowboy (A. Whitman & co., 1939), by Creighton Peet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A survey of Texas cattle drives to the North, 1866-1895 ... (Midland, Tex., 1920), by J. Evetts Haley (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.