Cowboy at Work by Fay E. Ward (2003, Paperback)

This is not one of those fun "Wild West" cowboy books. It has 600 illustrations, but they are of a technical nature. It offers sober advice on the work tasks a cowboy must perform.

I am reading the chapter on breaking horses right now and certainly would hesitate to run out and try any of this stuff. But for someone with experience, or the researcher who wants to have accurate information for stories, this book is great. Originally published in the 1950s, I expect that it shows techniques that haven't changed much since the olden days. A horse is still a horse, a cow is a cow.