Cowboy: The Ultimate Guide to Living Like a Great American Icon is the first book to explore, through a pop-culture lens, the many facets of the cowboy life. This book entertains and educates with an insider's look at topics such as ranching, rodeos, chuck wagon cooking, cowboy music, country and western dancing, and most important, the cowboy spirit. Cowboy includes instructions, recipes, profiles, photographs, and trivia that vividly depict the day-in, day-out rituals of this iconic lifestyle and show what it meant to be a cowboy in frontier days, and what it means to be a cowboy today! A fresh take on all things cowboy, Cowboy is certain to appeal to the huge fan base of those who love all things Western. Celebrity host of CMT's Cowboy U Rocco Wachman's modern guide to being a cowboy Cowboy: The Ultimate Guide to Living Like a Great American Icon is the first book to explore, through a pop-culture lens, the many facets of the cowboy life. This book entertains and educates with an insider's look at topics such as ranching, rodeos, chuck wagon cooking, cowboy music, country and western dancing, and most important, the cowboy spirit. Cowboy includes instructions, recipes, profiles, photographs, and trivia that vividly depict the day-in, day-out rituals of this iconic lifestyle and show what it meant to be a cowboy in frontier days, and what it means to be a cowboy today! A fresh take on all things cowboy, Cowboy is certain to appeal to the huge fan base of those who love all things Western. Matt Pellegrini is a cowboy and chuck wagon cooking enthusiast and a Renaissance man who has worked as everything from a carpenter tostrength coach to corporate litigation attorney, and many things inbetween. He is also the author of The Art of Baking Bread: What You Really Need to Know to Make Great Bread. Rocco Wachman, celebrity host of six seasons of Country Music Television's Cowboy U (viewed by nearly 400,000 households), is the senior instructor at Arizona Cowboy College and a real-life city slicker turned cowboy who has spent more than two decades apprenticing with some of the greatest cowboys ever to roam the American West.
