title: Buckaroos in Paradise: Cowboy Life in Northern Nevada: Publication for an Exhibition at the National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, October 1, 1980-March 31, 1981
author:  Howard W. Marshall 
description: "The exhibition 'Buckaroos in Paradise' at the National Museum of History and Technology is a sampling of artifacts and images from the daily lives of Great Basin buckaroos in the contemporary West. It signals a return of national interest in the West and typifies the growing interest in recording and studying the complex traditional cultural landscapes around us. The objects and the information result from the intensive study of a whole community - Paradise Valley, Nevada - in which the working cowboy (called 'buckaroo' by insiders) is but one feature. The Paradise Valley Folklife Project, conducted by the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress, documented a wide range of cultural expression, from cooking to coyote trapping to immigration history, but the buckaroo and his vital role on the family and corporation ranches provided a continual focus. 'Buckaroos in Paradise' is a celebration of a way of life and of the artifacts that empower and vivify the 'cowboy trade' and the West. The artifacts are both historical and contemporary, things built, used, consumed, and discarded in everyday life by cowboys and ranch families..." Numerous photos of cowboys at work and the tools of their trade are found throughout the book, including branding and branding irons, saddles and pack saddles, horse hair tack, chaps, chinks, hats, boots, cooking and eating utensils, and sleeping gear.
zlib_text: Join us for one or all of these great 2015 events in celebration of the Cowboy Artists of America’s 
  50th Anniversary and learn more about its efforts to authentically preserve and perpetuate the 
  culture of Western life in Fine Art.
  June 25 – 28, 2015
  Booth Western Art Museum 
  Weekend activities will include: Three Exhibition Openings • Banquet & Auction • CAA Symposium • BBQ  
  Dinner • A Day with the Artists • Red Steagall & Friends Concert .
  770-387-1541 •  BoothMuseum.org
  October 8 – 10, 2015
  National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
  Cowboy Artists of America’s 50th Annual Sale & Exhibition
  Event details, online catalog, reservations and proxy bidding info available 
  this autumn.
  (405) 478-2250  • nationalcowboymuseum.org
  November 2 – 6, 2015
  Scottsdale Artist School: CAA Week at Scottsdale Artist School
  CAA artists teaching classes at this 5-day workshop. Call for more 
  information and to sign up.
  480-990-1422 • scottsdaleartschool.org
  November 6 – May 31, 2016
  Western Spirit: Sco