Howdy Pardner and Welcome!
Updated: September 5, 2008
Cowboy and Old West fun for all ages! Ride our ranges
and enjoy Old West and cowboy history and culture with
Rich Slatta, the Cowboy Professor. Like the fabled King Ranch in Texas or the Parker Ranch
in Hawaii, my Lazy S Ranch is ever changing and expanding.
From here at cowboyprof.com HQ, you can ride off in all
sorts of wild and wonderful directions. You'll find lots
of history, some humor, popular culture, political commentary,
public service pages, and links to further explore cowboy
history and culture. Older sections of the Lazy S Ranch
(see links below) date back to the early
days of the Internet.
Cowboy Up!: Latest News
Just wrapping up my history of the National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration in Lubbock, Texas, due out from Texas Tech University Press in the fall of 2009. I attended the 2008 symposium & received this year's Cowboy Culture Award for Writing and Publishing (picture above).
Check out the 2008 symposium details and progam. Click this link to find out whether you are discussed in the book.
In January 2009, look for Cowboy Park: Steer Roping Contests on the Border by John O. Baxter
with foreword by Richard W. Slatta. "A century ago, when Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona outlawed steer roping contests, there was one place a southwestern roper could go to hone his skills: Cowboy Park, the arena established in 1907 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas." I participated in a writer's panel, with Elmer Kelton and others, at the Cowboy Symposium in Sept. 2007.
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Cowboy: The Illustrated History<