I love this book on The American Cowboy in Life & Legend by author Bart McDowell & Photography by William Albert Allard.

It has color photos in this book & I love those color photos.

But manager Lewis Watton's notes, "My family doesn't cotton much to that."

I like the photos of a cowboy roping a calf & I think they are beautiful photos & drawings of an american cowboy in his life & legend.

This is a great book & it has rodeo in it.

It had a picture of a world champion team steer roper Joe Glenn waiting for his turn to rope a steer & he had his arms folded & smoked a cigar & threw it away after he smoked & he would rope the steer's horns & carry his second rope but when a cowboy catches a steer's horns, he let's the rope slip out of his hands & the steer runs away & this is called team steer roping but in steer roping he must rope the steer's horns, tie his rope to the horn, trip the steer over with his rope, leap from his horse & tie the feat.

When in team-steer roping, you don't use a piggin' string you carry a second rope incase you miss.

This is funny of saying The Ashdale Cowboy in life & legend!! This is silly.

In calf roping at a rodeo, the cowboy must chase the calf on horseback, rope the calf, leap from his horse & tie the calve's three legs with a piggin' string he keeps in his mouth.
The calf must stay tied for 5 seconds.

I loved this book & this is a great book & I loved it!!!!!!!!!

The great thing about this photo book is that Allard provides you with a continous dialogue along with the photos about how he got the shots, what was going on, etc. As an amateur photographer, I was extremely inspired by "The Photographic Essay" to continue my photographic exploits with renewed vigor.

The pages of "The Photographic Essay" come alive with photos from Mississippi, the Basques, Out West, Oaxaca, Mexico, Peru, and Australia. Allard focuses on human emotion and tends to go for photos that other photographers wouldn't attempt--ones where lighting conditions are poor and in situations that others wouldn't get into like Allard does. The result is a rich, vibrant, honest mood.

I would recommend this book to anybody interested in photography, National Geographic magazine, or cultural studies.

"A Time We Knew: Images of Yesterday in the Basque Homeland" is the product of a fascinating collaboration between photographer William Albert Allard and the dean of Basque-American literature, Robert Laxalt.

In the fall of 1967, Allard spent two months in the Basque country of northeastern Spain and southwestern France, capturing with his camera the everyday life of the people who lived there. Although Allard spoke no Basque and was linked to the Basque country only through his Basque wife, his stunning photos evoke the tremendous power of the Basque landscape and people: the haunting flanks of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques at evening; the gloomy mountains of the northern coast of Spain just at the approach of a storm; a rough-hewn woman with a scythe at Behorleguy, on the frontier between youth and age, in whose face is reflected the painful past of the ancient Basque people. From a technical point-of-view, these incredible photographs are so good that they could truly be "images of yesterday": the color is brilliant. Alas, though, "yesterday" in the Basque country is no more. The years since 1967 have seen the heavy industrialization of both the French and Spanish sectors of the Basque homeland and the gradual passing of the ancient ways Allard captures here.

Laxalt's contribution to this book is his prose vignettes, some of the best of his characteristically exquisite prose-poetry. A second-generation Basque-American whose father grew up in the French Basque country, Laxalt knows the region as well as probably anyone in the United States. While one cannot miss the heavy dose of romanticism in his prose ("Girls slender as reeds walking hand in hand down the lane, singing an ode to spring in soprano voices pure and light as air") and even pastoralism (exacerbated by the fact that the Basques are some of the world's greatest shepherds), it is obvious that Laxalt is a remarkable writer.

A poetic look at "yesterday" in the Basque country. Get it on your shelf.

A series of photo's that capture the modern day cowboys and the area countryside they call home.

The pictures shows sides of America many people don't know still exist. I have treasured this book for several years.

This book is magnificent. I found all kinds of new ways of looking at things, lighting. capturing the moment. I couldn't belive it. It effected something deep inside. not because of it "captured" cowboys, but because of the sheer artistry and Allard's vision and expertise.

This book is for those of us that spent our summers at the lake cabin or resort. It brings back memories of my summers as a kid and thing that we did. Its also for adults that have spent time there. When I think of the lake I think of this book. It has become part of our cabin reading.