The West is dead, my friend,
But writers hold the seed
And what they sow will live and grow
Again for those who read.
(Charles M. Russell)
(Tumbling Tumbleweeds on this page is sung by The Fireside Singers.)
The following list contains other books that cover different aspects of the "Singing Cowboy" phenomenon, the Hollywood and rodeo of that era, Some Romantic poet work, or Bob's life in New Brunswick or Tucson. Some books are more accurate than others; most contain photographs; all will expand your knowledge of that era. Because most of these books are out of print, you will have to find them through the second-hand book sites:
1. Adams, Les, and Buck Rainey, Shoot’em Ups: The Complete Reference Guide to Westerns of the Sound Era, Arlington House, 1978
2. The Albuquerque Museum, Adventures West – 50 Masterworks from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, Dec. 10, 1989 – March 4, 1990
3. Allen, Rex with Snuff Garrett and Paula Simpson Witt, The Arizona Cowboy, Rex Allen: My Life Sunrise to Sunset, RexGarRus Press, Scottsdale, AZ, 1989
4. Allen, Hervey, Best Known Works of Edgar A. Poe, Walter J. Black Co., 1927
5. Amaral, Anthony, Movie Horses, Bobbs-Merrill, 1967
6. Anger, Kenneth, Hollywood Babylon, Straight Arrow Books, 1975.
7. Arnold, William, Shadowland, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1978
8. Autry, Gene, Back in the Saddle Again, with Mickey Herskowitz, Doubleday and Company, 1978.
9. Barbour, Alan G., Saturday Afternoon at the Movies, Bonanza Books, 1986
10. Baxter, John, Hollywood in the Thirties, A. Zwemmer Ltd., London (Barnes), 1968, and Stunt, Doubleday, 1973
11. Bond, Johnny, The Tex Ritter Story, Chappell & Co, 1976, and Reflections: The Autobiography of Johnny Bond, JEMF Special Series No. 8, 1976.
12. Boyd, Marsha L., Backward Turn the Pages – Historical Stories from Around the Belleisle Bay, 1997, Many Turns, 1995, and The Old Belleisle, Beautiful Still, undated.
13. Brown, Lois, Tales of the Wild West, Compiled, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, 1995
14. Kevin Brownlow, Hollywood – The Pioneers, pictures by John Kobal, Collins, 1979 and The War, the West and the Wilderness, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1979 (ISBN 0-394-48921-7)
15. Buscombe, Edward, The BFI Companion to the Western, Da Capo Press, 1988
16. Byron, George Gordon, Lord, The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, E. Moxon, Son & Co., London, 1870
17. Campbell, Walter S. (Stanley Vestal), The Book Lover’s Southwest – a Guide to Good Reading, U of Oklahoma Press, 1955
18. Canutt, Yakima, Stunt Man, Autobiography of Yakima Canutt, with Oliver Drake, Walker and Company, NY, 1979
19. Carman, Bob & Dan Scapperotti, The Adventures of the Durango Kid, self-published, 1983, Rex Allen, Arizona Cowboy, 1982 and Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys – a Film Guide, self-published, 1979.
20. Cary, Diana Serra, The Hollywood Posse: The Story of a Gallant Band of Horsemen Who Made Movie History, 1996.
Harry Carey Jr, Company of Heroes, My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Comapny, Madison Books, 1996 ISBN: 1-56833-068-5.
Chase, Gilbert, America’s Music from the Pilgrims to the Present, McGraw-Hill NY, 1966. LOC #66-23622.
21. Christman, Trent, Brass Button Broadcasters, Turner Publishing, 1992.
22. Clancy, Frederick Melton "Foghorn", My 50 Years in Rodeo: Living with Cowboys, Horses and Danger, The Naylor Company, 1952
23. Clapham, Walter C., Western Movies: The Story of the West on Screen, Octopus Books, 1974
24. Copeland, Bobby, Bobby Copeland’s B-Western Boot Hill – a Final Tribute to the Cowboys and Cowgirls Who Rode the Saturday Matinee Movie Range, Empire Publishing, 1999 and Trail Talk, Empire Publishing Inc, NC, 1996
25. Corneau, Ernest N., The Hall of Fame of Western Film Stars, Christopher Publishing House, 1969 SBN: 8158-0124-6
Country Music Magazine (editors of), The Illustrated History of Country Music, edited by Patrick Carr, New York, Random House/Times Books, 1995, ISBN: 081292455X
26. Coyne, Michael, The Crowded Prairie, I. B. Tauris Publishers, London, 1997. ISBN 1 86064 040 0
27. Crow, J. Brim III and Jack H. Smith, Cowboy and the Kid, Wind River Publishing Co Inc, Irving, Texas, 1988
28. Cusack, Ruby M. Yesteryear Vol. 1: Index to Death Roll of the St. John Globe 1897-1926, ISBN: 0-929085-03-5
29. Cusic, Don, Cowboys and the Wild West, an A-Z Guide from the Chisholm Trail to the Silver Screen, Facts on File, 1994
30. DeMarco, Mario, Gallant Defender, the Durango Kid, Charles Starrett, self-published c. 1980, Republic’s Wild & Woolly Western Heroes, Heroines, Heavies & Side-Kicks, self-published, undated.
31. Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Olaf Wieghorst, A Retrospective Exhibition, 1989
32. DiOrio, Al, Barbara Stanwyck, A Biography, Coward-McCann, 1984
33. Drachman, Roy P., From Cowtown to Desert Metropolis – Ninety Years of Arizona Memories, 1999, Whitewing Press, ISBN 1-888965-02-9
34. Drew, Bernard A., Western Series and Sequels – 2nd Edition, Garland, 1993
35. James Drye, A Collector’s Guide to the Prints of Olaf Wieghorst, Spidy Quality Publishing, 2000.
36. John Dunning, Tune in Yesterday: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, 1925-1976, Prentice-Hall, 1979
37. Don Edwards, Classic Cowboy Songs, Gibbs. Smith, Salt Lake City, 1994
38. Hal Evarts Jr., Skunk Ranch to Hollywood – The West of Author Hal Evarts, Capra Press, 1989.
39. William K. Everson, A Pictorial History of the Western Film, 1969 and The Hollywood Western, 1992 (adapted from A Pictorial History of the Western Film, 1969, by WKE)
40. Allen Eyles, The Western, A. S. Barnes & Company, Incorporated, 1975
41. Fagen, Herb, White Hats and Silver Spurs: Interviews with 24 Stars of Film and Television, McFarland & Co, 1996
42. Fenin, George N., The Western: From Silents to Cinerama, 1962
43. Fenin, George N. and Wm. K Everson, The Western, Orion, 1962 and The Western: From Silents to the Seventies, Grossman Publishers, 1973
44. Fife, Austin and Alta S., Cowboy and Western Songs: A Comprehensive Anthology, Clarkson N. Potter, 1969
45. Fletcher, Curley (Carmen) W., Songs of the Sage (sketches by Guy M. Welch), Frontier Publishing Co, Los Angeles, 1931
46. Fraser, George MacDonald, The Hollywood History of the World, Fawcett Columbine, NY, 1989
47. Garfield, Brian, Western Films: A Complete Guide, Da Capo Press, 1982
48. Gentry, Lynnell, A History and Encyclopedia of Country, Western and Gospel Music,
Clairmont Corp. 1969
49. Graham, Sheila, Hollywood Revisited: a Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration. New York: St. Martin, 1985. ISBN: 0-312-38844-6 and My Hollywood: a Celebration and a Lament, London: Joseph, 1984, ISBN: 0-7181-2282-8
50. Green, Douglas B. (Ranger Doug), Songs of the Sage, Centerstream Publishing, CA, 1997, Singing in the Saddle, Vanderbilt, 2002 ISBN: 0-8265-1412-X, Singing Cowboys, Gibbs M Smith Inc, 2006 ISBN: 1586858084
51. Griffis, Ken, Reinsmen: Painters of the West in Song, self-published, 1997 and Stuart Hamblen – Cowboy, Poet, Songwriter, Storyteller, Evangelist, Husband, and Father. Self-published.
52. Guinness, Guinness Who’s Who of Country Music, Enfield, Middlesex, England, 1993, ISBN: 0851127266
53. Gullan-Whur, Margaret, Within Reason – A Life of Spinoza, Jonathan Cape, 1998
54. Halliburton, Richard, Richard Halliburton’s Complete Book of Marvels, Bobbs-Merrill, NY, 1938, The Royal Road to Romance, Bobbs-Merrill, NY, 1925, and Seven League Boots, Bobbs-Merrill, NY, 1935
55. Hanson, Patricia; ed., AFI Catalog Feature Films: 1931-40, Berkeley; Univ CA Press: 1993, and AFI Catalog Feature Films: 1941-50, Berkeley; Univ CA Press: 1999
56. Hardy, Phil, The Western: The Complete Film Source Book, William Morrow, 1983
57. Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music; 3rd completely revised and updated ed., New York Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1994, ISBN: 051788139X
58. Harper, Redd, I Walk the Glory Road, Fleming H. Revell, 1957
59. Hassrick, Royal B., Western Painting Today – Contemporary Painters of the American West, Watson-Guptill Pub., NY, 1975
60. Harman, Fred with intro by Dean Krakel, The Great West in Paintings, Sage Books, The Swallow Press, Chicago, 1969.
61. Heide, Robert and John Gilman, Box Office Buckaroos, Abbeville Press, Incorporated, 1990
62. Higham, Charles, and Joel Greenberg, Hollywood in the Forties, A. Zwemmer Ltd, London, 1968
63. Holland, Ted, B-Western Actors Encyclopedia: Facts, Photos and Filmographies for More Than 250 Familiar Faces, McFarland & Company, 1989
64. Horstman, Dorothy, Sing Your Heart Out, Country Boy, Country Music Foundation Press, 1996
65. Horwitz, James, They Went Thataway, Thomas Congdon Books, E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, New York, 1976
66. Hudson, Wilson M. and Allen Maxwell, The Sunny Slopes of Long Ago, Southern Methodist University Press, 1966
67. Hurst, Richard Maurice, Republic Studios, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1979
68. Jackson, Ronald, Classic TV Westerns: A Pictorial History, A Citadel Press Book, 1994
69. Keats, John, Keats – Poems selected by J. E. Morpurgo, Penguin, 1953.
70. Key, Donald R., Round-up, The – A Pictorial History of Western Movie and Television Stars Through the Years, Empire Publishing, Inc, Box 717, Madison, NC 27025-0717 , 1995
71. Kimbrough, Emily, We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood, Dodd, Meade & Co., 1943
72. Krakel, Dean, Adventures in Western Art, The Lowell Press, 1977
73. L-W Promotions, Collector’s Guide to Sheet Music, Box 69, Gas City, Indiana 46933
74. Lahue, Kalton C., Riders of the Range, the Sagebrush Heroes of the Sound Screen, AS Barnes & Co, 1973 and Winners of the West: the Sagebrush Heroes of the Silent Screen, AS Barnes & Co., 1970
75. Lamparski, Richard, Whatever Became of…? Vol. II, Crown Publishers, 1968
76. Larkin, Margaret, Singing Cowboy
77. Lee, Katie, Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle, Northland Press Flagstaff, Arizona, 1976
78. Logsdon, Guy, Mary Rogers and William Jacobson, Saddle Serenaders, Gibbs Smith, Salt Lake City, 1995
79. Lomax, Alan, The Penguin Book of American Folk Songs, Penguin Books, Baltimore, 1972
80. Lomax, John A. and Alan Lomax, Cowboy Songs and other Frontier Ballads, Macmillan, NY, 1938 and Cowboy Songs and other Frontier Ballads, Sturgis & Walton. New York, 1910
81. Long, Philip S., Dreams, Dust and Depression, Cypress Publishing Ltd, Calgary, 1972.
82. MacKenzie, Harry (compilator), Command Performance USA! A Discography, Greenwood Press, 1996.
83. McClelland, Doug, Hollywood on Hollywood, London; Boston: Faber and Faber, 1985. ISSBN: 0-571-12530-1.
84. McCloud, Barry with Ivan M. Tribe, Definitive Country: the Ultimate Encyclopedia of Country Music and Its Performers, New York, Berkley Pub. Group, c1995. ISBN:0399521445
85. McCarthy, Todd and Charles Flynn (editors), Kings of the Bs: Working within the Hollywood System, an Anthology of Film History and Criticism, EP Dutton & Co., NY, 1975
86. McCarty, Clifford, Film Composers of America – a Checklist of Their Work, Da Capo Press, New York, 1972 ISBN:0306704951
87. McDonald, Archie P., Shooting Stars: Heroes and Heroines of Western Film, Indiana University Press, 1987
88. McClure, Arthur F. and Ken D. Jones, Western Films: Heroes, Heavies and Sagebrush of the "B" Genre, A S Barnes, 1972
89. McFadden, Cyra, Rain or Shine, Knopf, 1986
90. Maeder, Edward, Hollywood and History – Costume Design in Film, Thames & Hudson, LA, 1987
91. Malone, Bill C., Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music, University of Georgia Press, 1993.
92. Malone, Bill C. and Judith McCulloh, Stars of Country Music: Uncle Dave Macon to Johnny Rodrigues, Da Capo Press, Incorporated, 1991
93. Martin, Len. D., The Columbia Checklist, McFarland, 1991 and The Republic Pictures Checklist, McFarland, 1998
94. Mathis, Jack, Republic Confidential: Volume 1, Barrington; Jack Mathis Advertising, 1999, Republic Confidential Volume 2 – The Players, Jack Mathis Advertising, 1992, and The Valley of the Cliffhangers, Jack Mathis Advertising, 1995
95. Miller, Don, Hollywood Corral, Popular Library, 1976.
96. Miller, Lee O., Great Cowboy Stars of Movies and Television, Arlington House, New York, 1979.
97. Montana Historical Society, Rendezvous of Western Art 1972: Olaf Wieghorst, John Clymer, etc., 1972.
98. Morris, Georgia, and Mark Pollard, Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys, San Francisco Collins 1994
99. Osborne, Jerry, Fifty-five Years of Recorded Country/Western Music, Norwalk Press, 1976
100. Parish, Robert James, The Great Movie Series, A.S. Barnes, 1971
101. Parkinson, Michael, and Clyde Jeavons, A Pictorial History of Westerns, Hamlyn, 1973
102. B. A. Payton, Gary Fiegehen (photographer) and Jim Skipp (design), Cowboy – the Legend and the Legacy, Greystone Books, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 2000.
103. Phillips, Robert W., Roy Rogers: a Biography, Radio History, Television Career Chronicle, Discography, Filmography, Comicology, Merchandising and Advertising History, Collectibles Description, Bibliography and Index, McFarland, 1995 and Silver Screen Cowboys, Gibbs Smith, 1993 and Singing Cowboy Stars - Book and CD, Gibbs-Smith, 1994
104. Pitts, Michael R., Western Movies – a TV and Video Guide to 4200 Genre Films, McFarland, 1986
105. Pitts, Michael R. and Louis H. Harrison, Hollywood on Record – The Film Stars’ Discography, The Scarecrow Press, Inc, New Jersey, 1978
106. Poe, Randy, Songs of the West, 1993
107. Priest, Daniel B., American Sheet Music: A Guide to Collecting Sheet Music from 1775 to 1975, Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1978
108. Ragan, David, Who’s Who in Hollywood 1900-1976, Arlington House-Publishers, New Rochelle, NY, 1976
109. Bill G. (Buck) Rainey, Heroes of the Range, The World of Yesterday, 1987, Saddle Aces of the Cinema, AS Barnes & Co, Inc, 1980, The Shoot’em Ups Ride Again, The World of Yesterday, 1990
110. Reed, William, Olaf Wieghorst, Northland Press, 1971
111. Rhode, Eric, A History of the Cinema from its Origins to 1970, pub. Allen Lane (Penguin Books) , 1976
112. Richards, Norman V., Cowboy Movies, Bison Books Corp., Greenwich, CT, USA. 1984
113. Roberson, "Bad Chuck" with Bodie Thoene, The Fall Guy: 30 years as the Duke’s Double, Hancock House, 1980, ISBN 0-88839-036-X
114. Rogers, Dale Evans, Dale: My Personal Picture Album, Fleming H. Revell Co, 1971
115. Rohrer, Norman B., Rainbow on a Hard Trail: Dale Evans Rogers – Her Story of Life and Love, Fleming H. Revell, 1999
116. Roper, William L., Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys, TS Dennison & Co Inc, Minneapolis, 1971
117. Rothel, David, An Ambush of Ghosts – a Personal Guide to Favorite Western Film Locations, Empire Publishing, 1990, The Gene Autry Book, Empire Publishing Company, Inc, Madison, NC, 1988, The Great Show Business Animals, A. S. Barnes Co., Inc., 1980, The Roy Rogers Book, Empire Publishing, Inc., 1987, The Singing Cowboys, A. S. Barnes, 1978, Those Great Cowboy Sidekicks, Scarecrow Press, 1984
118. Russell, Michael, Iwo Jima, Ballantine, 1974
119. Sabatini, Rafael, Captain Blood, McClelland & Stewart, 1923
120. Seidman, Laurence I., Once in the Saddle: The Cowboy’s Frontier 1866 - 1896, Facts on File, 1994
Sherman, Robert G., Quiet on the Set! Motion Picture History at the Iverson Movie Location Ranch, Sherway Publishing Co, 1984
121. Sherman, Samuel M., Legendary Singing Cowboys, Friedman/Fairfax, 1995
122. Smith, Herold, Saturdays Forever, National Paperback Books, Inc. 1985 ISBN 0-89826-016-7
123. Smith, Packy and Ed Hulse, Don Miller’s Hollywood Corral: A Comprehensive B Western Roundup, Riverwood Press, 1993
124. Spaeth, Sigmund, Weep Some More, My Lady, Doubleday, Page & Co, 1927, Read 'Em and Weep: A Treasury of American Songs, Arco Publishing , 1945
125. Stambler, Irwin and Grelun Landon, Encyclopedia of Folk, Country and Western Music, St. Martin’s Press, 1969
126. Steagall, Red, Ride for the Brand, Cowboy Poet of the State of Texas, Texas Christian University Press, 1993
127. Stubblebine, Donald J. E., Cinema Sheet Music – A Comprehensive Listing of Published Film Music from Squawman (1914) to Batman (1989), McFarland, 1991
128. Summers, Neil, Candid Cowboys Volume 2, The Old West Shop, 1993
129. Sword, Elmer, Roy Rogers Hometown Photo Album, Knauff Offset Printing, 1982.
130. Tatnall, Edward, C. G. Burke and Irving Kolodin, Saturday Review Home Book of Recorded Music and Sound Reproduction, Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1952
131. Taylor, Rosemary, Chicken Every Sunday, McGraw-Hill, 1943
132. Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, Poems of Tennyson, Henry Frowede, 1906
133. Thomas, Bob, King Cohn: the Life and Times of Harry Cohn, G P Putnam’s Sons, 1967
134. Thorp, N. Howard (Jack) with Neil M. Clark, Pardner of the Wind, University of Nebraska Press, 1977
135. Thorp, N. Howard (Jack) with Austin E. and Alta S. Fife, Songs of the Cowboys, Bramhall House, NY, 1966
136. Tinsley, Jim Bob, For a Cowboy Has to Sing, University Of Central Florida Press, 1991 and He Was Singin’ This Song, University Press of Florida, 1981
137. Tompkins, Jane, West of Everything: the Inner Life of Westerns, Oxford University Press, 1992
138. Tuska, Jon, The Filming of the West, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976
139. Tyson, Ian with Colin Escott, Ian Tyson: I Never Sold My Saddle, GreyStone Books, Douglas & McIntyre, 1994.
140. Uys, Errol Lincoln, Riding the Rails - Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression, TV Books, 1999.
Variety Obituaries: 1905-1986, Westport; Garland: 1988
141. Vaughan, Gerald F., Ray Whitley: Country-Western Musicmaster and Film Star
142. von Schmidt, Harold with intro by Walt Reed, The Western Art of Harold von Schmidt, Peacock Press / Bantam Book, 1976
Wallis, Michael, The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West, St. Martin’s Press, 1999 ISBN 0-312-19286-X
143. Warner, Alan, Six-gun Scoring
144. White, John I., Git Along, Little Dogies: Songs and Songmakers of the American West, University of Illinois Press, 1975
145. Wieghorst, Olaf, Olaf Wieghorst Retrospective, Tucson Museum of Art, 1981
146. Wilson, Leland, The Will Rogers Touch, The Brethren Press, 1978.
147. Witney, William, Trigger Remembered, Earl Blair Enterprises, 1989
148. Wright, Will, Six-Guns and Society, a Structural Study of the Western, U of California Press, 1975.
149. Young, J. R., The Singing Cowboys, Country Music Magazine in The Illustrated History of Country Music Random House/Times Books, 1995
150. Zinman, David, Saturday Afternoon at the Bijou, Arlington House, 1973
ARTICLES
Bindas, Kenneth J., Bob Nolan, Western Mystic, Western Historical Quarterly v17 #4 1986
Bowen, William, Portrait of a Pioneer, Pioneer News No. 10-13, Spring 1980
Griffis, Ken, The Beverly Hillbillies, JEMF Quarterly v16 #57 1980 Spring