Information for Civics Conference

Nashville, TN

December 7, 2009

“Howdy, Ma’am, and Much Obliged” How the model set forth by the American Cowboy can help today’s youth live a more productive and successful life.

Jana Fallin     jfallin@ksu.edu

David Fallin    dfallin@ksu.edu

 

Resources:

Bubba, The Cowboy Prince – Helen Ketteman

Cowboy Ethics What Wall Street Can Learn from the Code of the West – James P. Owen

Cowboy Values Recapturing What America once Stood For -- James P. Owen

How Successful People Win Using “Bunkhouse Logic” to get what you want in life -- Ben Stein

Home on the Range – John A. Lomax and His Cowboy Songs -- Deborah Hopkinson

Attributes

Courage:

•    Not the absence of fear

•    Acknowledging fear and confronting head-on

•    Willing to take a chance

•    Inner Strength

Self-reliance:

•    Not the absence of fear

•    Acknowledging fear and confronting head-on

•    Willing to take a chance

•    Inner Strength

 

Honor:

•    Do the Right Thing at all times.

•    Be someone others can count on.

•    Tell the truth, no matter the cost.

•    Act with integrity.

 

Duty:

•    Action, not Words

•    Quiet Confidence

•    Doing what has to be Done

•    Selflessness

•    Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less

 

Robert E. Lee quote:

“Do you duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should not wish to do less.”

 

Interesting Website

http://www.elvaquero.com/The_Cowboy_Code.htm