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    Cowboy Earmuffs: 15 Cowboy Stories for Adults
    Cowboy Earmuffs: 15 Cowboy Stories for Adults
    Cowboy Earmuffs: 15 Cowboy Stories for Adults
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    Cowboy Earmuffs: 15 Cowboy Stories for Adults

    By Stan Paregien, Sr

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    COWBOY EARMUFFS: 15 COWBOY STORIES FOR ADULTS is a collection of 15 of Stan Paregien's best cowboy stories. They are "for adults" only in the sense that the stories are probably above the reading levels of most children under 12 years of age. Probably best for those at least age 13. These 15 stories are just a few of the stories which he has written and performed, starting in 1991. This eBook contains such storytelling jewels as "The Cajun Submarine," "My Cowdog Named 'Sex'," "The Grey Ghost," "The Christmas Spirit," "What a Robin Taught Me," "Reincarnation Blues," "Cowgirl Smarts" and Stan's signature storie, "Cowboy Earmuffs."

    Stan Paregien is an award-winning writer who has told his stories at everything from elementary schools and Lions Clubs to large Western festivals. His storytelling travels have taken him from Springdale, Arkansas to Santa Clarita, California and from Lubbock, Texas to Great Falls, Montana and many places in between. He performed almost every year for twenty years at the National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration in Lubbock, one of the largest Western festivals in the U.S.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStan Paregien, Sr
    Release dateApr 18, 2014
    ISBN9781310458422
    Cowboy Earmuffs: 15 Cowboy Stories for Adults
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    Stan Paregien, Sr

    Stan Paregien Sr was born in Wapanucka (Johnston County), Oklahoma to Harold and Evelyn (Cauthen) Paregien. The family moved west the year after his birth and he grew up on ranches and farms where his father worked in southern California.One of those places where Harold Paregien worked was the Newhall Ranch, a corporate ranching and farming operation that stretched for miles either side of the highway from the towns of Newhall (now Santa Clarita) to Piru. Stan was already in love with anything cowboy, mostly by watching those great B-Westerns at the local movie theaters. And then on the Newhall Ranch (officially known as the Newhall Land & Farming Company) he and his sister Roberta acquired horses and rode happy trails all over the ranch.Paregien graduated from high school in 1959 at Fillmore, Calif. He married Peggy Ruth Allen from nearby Ventura, Calif., in 1962. They immediately moved to Nashville, Tennessee for Stan to study Speech Communication (and history and Bible) at Lipscomb University. He graduated in 1965. In 1968, he received his master’s degree from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Then he completed all 60-hours of the classwork toward a Ph.D. in Speech Communication at the University of Oklahoma (but did not complete his other requirements). He has taken and is still taking continuing education courses in Life Skills through the University of Hard Knocks.He is a former full-time minister, a newspaper reporter and editor, a radio talk show host, a director of mental health facilities in both Texas and Oklahoma, and a salesman of various products. His hobby since 1990 has been writing and performing cowboy poetry and stories. He performed at the annual National Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock, Texas for a total of some 25 years. Through it all, he has been and is a freelance writer and author.He prefers just calling himself a "storyteller" in the tradition of Mark Twain, Louis L'Amour, Elmer Kelton, Garrison Keillor, Ansel Adams, Norman Rockwell, J. Frank Dobie, Agatha Christie and others. Sometimes he tells stories through narration, sometimes through poetry and often through photography.Stan and Peggy have two adult children, Stan Paregien Jr who lives with his family in the St. Louis area; and Stacy Magness who lives with her family near College Station, Texas. They also have four grandchildren (going on five, with an adoption in progress) and two great-grandchildren. The Paregiens lived in Edmond, Oklahoma for some 20 years before moving to Bradenton, Florida in June of 2013.Be sure to take a look at his other e-books which are also available online, including:S. Omar Barker: Las Vegas New Mexico's Legendary Cowboy PoetHis biography and 50 of his poems.The Cajun Cowdog: 15 Cowboy Stories for Adults**Just that people under age 13 probably can't appreciate it.Cowboy Earmuffs: 15 Cowboy Stories for AdultsA Rainy Day Reader: 100 Poems for Your EnjoymentWoody Guthrie: His Life, Music & MythOklahoma Almanac of Facts & Humor, (Parts 1& 2)The Austin Chronicles, Book 1: Boggy Depot Shootout (a Western novel with adult themes)The Austin Chronicles, Book 2: The Abilene Trail (a Western novel with adult themes)The Day Jesus DiedRootin’ Tootin’ Cowboy Poetry (Stan's original poems)Guy Logsdon: Award-winning FolkloristJim Shoulders: King of the Rodeo CowboysClara Luper: Civil Rights PioneerThoughts on UnityHe also recently published two paperback books through Amazon.com's KDP "Print-on-demand" process. Those two books are:S. Omar Barker: Las Vegas New Mexico's Legendary Cowboy PoetThe Day Jesus Died: Revised VersionOr just Google "books by Stan Paregien."

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      Cowboy Earmuffs - Stan Paregien, Sr

      Montana Cowboy Earmuffs:

      15 Cowboy Stories for Adults

      by Stan Paregien

      Smashwords Edition

      ISBN: 9781310458422

      Copyright 2014 by Stan Paregien Sr

      All rights worldwide are reserved by the author.

      Bradenton, Florida: Paregien Enterprises, 2014.

      Cover design by Stan Paregien

      Smashwords Edition, License

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this eBook with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this eBook and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work and legal rights of this author.

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to these writers (and more) who had an early influence on my career: Jory Sherman, Thomas (Tommy) Thompson, Louis L'Amour, John Erickson, Elmer Kelton, Max Evans, J.T. Edson, Tony Hillerman and Bill Gullick.

      By the way, these stories are for adults only in the sense that the stories are probably above the reading levels of most children under 13 years of age.

      Introduction

      I think the one word that best that describes my various adult accomplishments is storyteller. That is the essence of what I have done and what I still like to do. It was none other than the late Louis L'Amour, the prolific and world-famous writer of Western fiction, who said: I think of myself in the oral tradition--as a troubadour, a village taleteller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered--as a storyteller. A good storyteller.

      That's fine with me, too.

      You see, a storyteller in the classic sense is one who communicates a message through verbal and/or non-verbal communication to someone else. That definition includes the mime, the sports writer, the genealogist, the historian, the poet, the photographer, the teacher and preacher, the songwriter and singer, and the novelist.

      It is through this ancient process of storytelling that we pass on to people now living and, hopefully, to generations yet unborn our culture, our beliefs and our values. It is how we explain our origins and our hopes for the future. It is how we explain what things are and how they work and why.

      Well, the fact is that I worked at a wide range of jobs in my adult life. Some of them I did remarkably well and in others I managed to survive, while in a few I bombed out or the bottom dropped out (meaning in at least five jobs the company I worked for went out of business). I spent most of my life working as a salesman of various products, but I also spent ten years in full-time ministry as a preacher and writer and author.

      I spent lesser times as a journalist, a newspaper editor, a morning radio talk show host, a lab technician in an oil refinery, and as a director of a mental health facility in Texas and one in Oklahoma. From 1991 to 2011, I spent a lot of time and energy both writing and doing live performances of my original cowboy poetry and stories. That great variety of pursuits still boils down to storytelling in one format or another.

      So I invite you to fix a cup of coffee or tea and, when you're ready, read and enjoy some of my best stories.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      The Cajun Submarine

      Chapter 2

      A Patoot Salute

      Chapter 3

      A Lot of Bull

      Chapter 4

      The Odd Couples

      Chapter 5

      The Grey Ghost

      Chapter 6

      Making a Difference

      Chapter 7

      The Christmas Spirit

      Chapter 8

      Dream Stealers

      Chapter 9

      Reincarnation Blues

      Chapter 10

      Cowgirl Smarts

      Chapter 11

      A Matter of Interpretation

      Chapter 12

      What a Robin Taught Me

      Chapter 13

      It Happened at Cowboy Church

      Chapter 14

      My Cowdog Named Sex

      Chapter 15

      Cowboy Earmuffs

      Addendum A

      List of Stan Paregien's Other eBooks

      Addendum B

      Stan Paregien's Biography

      Addendum C

      Influential Writers Early in My Career

      Chapter 1

      The Cajun Submarine

      During the early days of World War II, German submarines destroyed hundreds of Allied ships. Any country with a shoreline felt at risk. That’s why the state of Louisiana, with a long shoreline and numerous harbors, decided to build their own submarine as a defensive measure.

      Some Louisiana legislators who were graduates of Louisiana State University successfully lobbied to have the engineering of the submarine done by scholars at LSU. So the Cajun engineers designed plans for a solar-powered submarine (Yes, Virginia, a solar-powered sub.). And by the winter of 1942-43 they went into the production of their very first submarine there in the Mississippi River at Baton Rouge.

      When it was completed in the summer of 1943 and ready to be launched, they decided to have a big ceremony. I heard about it from an old Cajun cowboy buddy of mine, J.B. Fontineux, who was workin’ for the Thibodaux Ranch at the time. But he wrangled some time off to drive down to Baton Rouge for the big doin’s. And here's the way he told me the story, in his own language:

      "Eet was a knock-down, drag-out beautiful summer day dem folks done set for da celebration of da lunching. Eet was supposed to hoppen at tree o'clockem. But a large crowd begust to gather outside da pier gate by one o’clockem. Dozens of vendors moved through da hoppy, hoppy crowd selling hot dogs, peanuts and gumbo. Why, dey even sold necklaces with little sub-mo-rine charms on dem.

      "As dat big clock struck tree, a mighty group of politicians and military personnel marched dem selves to da lunch area and sat dem selves rat down. A two-hundred member band from LSU provided da music. Pardner, eet was exciting, I gawruntee.

      "Den, rat at tree o’clockem, the Governor of Louisiana his own live self arrived in his big black lemon-sin. Den dat big crowd of us po' folks went through da gate onto da pier where da submarine sat in . . . what-chu-callem, dry duck.

      A warm, soft breeze

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