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All This Way for the Short Ride.


All This Way for the Short Ride

Paul Zarzyski, author; Barbara Van Cleve, photographer

University of New Mexico Press The University of New Mexico Press, founded in 1929, is a university press that is part of the University of New Mexico. External link
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0890133085 $17.50 www.unmpress.com 1-800-249-7737

All This Way for the Short Ride: Roughstock Sonnets is a rollicking rol·lick·ing  
adj.
Carefree and high-spirited; boisterous: a rollicking celebration.



rol
 blend of poetry and action-packed, black-and-white photographs celebrating the American West, the ranch way of life, and especially rodeo culture. Written in the continued spirit of the original "Roughneck Sonnets", All This Way for the Short Ride pays especial tribute to the brave men and women who dare to ride fiercely bucking broncos for as many seconds as they can. A collaboration brimming with life, love, and the passion of the strongest roughnecks Roughnecks can refer to either
  • Roughneck, a term for a labourer of varying skill level in a number of industries.
  • Roughnecks (TV series), a BBC One programme about oil rig workers from the 1990s that starred Ricky Tomlinson and Ashley Jensen
, highly recommended for western and rodeo fans. " The Night the Devil Danced on Me": A werewolf werewolf: see lycanthropy.
werewolf

In European folklore, a man who changes into a wolf at night and devours animals, people, or corpses, returning to human form by day.
 moon glares / from the top row of the bleachers, horned / owl with one eye plucked. In the black hole / of chute 8, Lonewolf waits--/ an ugly bronc, mustang and rank, / the cowboys say, with notched right ear / and snaky snak·y  
adj. snak·i·er, snak·i·est
1. Relating to or characteristic of snakes.

2. Having the form or movement of a snake; serpentine.

3. Overrun with snakes.

4. Treacherous; sly.
, suck-back ways.
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