Arts & Entertainment
August 13, 2015
The Cowgirl Way
The story behind rodeo star Tad Lucas’s little red riding boots.
Cowgirls
The Texanist
April 30, 2012
The Texanist: Do Country Dancers Ever Go Clockwise?
Boot-scooting in the right direction, leaving New York, wondering about the yardman, and trying out the cowgirl look when you’re no longer 25.
February 14, 2012
Nude Cowgirl Leads Cops on Slow-Speed Chase
Eighteen-year-old Taylor Burnham was naked, but for her cowboy boots, when she was stopped by cops in her Jeep Wrangler in Corpus Christi.
The Culture
July 31, 2011
Cowgirl Up
The word probably makes you think of rhinestone-studded jeans, floppy-brimmed hats, and Nashville queens, but “cowgirl” ought to stand for the tough pioneer women who built ranches and went on cattle drives and the hardy rural women who are out there today doing their fair share of the work, usually invisibly,
Books
March 1, 2011
Don’t Make Me Go to Town
Read an excerpt from a new book by Rhonda Lashley Lopez.
Film & TV
October 1, 1993
Sex Shooters
Ann-Margret, get your gun: A celebration of pistol-packin’ celluloid cowgirls.
Being Texan
November 1, 1987
In Praise of Cowgirls
Call them what you will. We call them the living, breathing spirit of the Western woman. A working definition, you might say.