Friday 13 February 2015

Old West Photo Friday: Cowboy Riding Jackalope


Here's an old postcard showing a cowboy riding the fabled Jackalope. While most Jackalopes are rabbit sized, sometimes they get big enough for cowboys to saddle them up and hop around the plains. A Jackalope, of course, is a cross between a jackrabbit and an antelope.

You can read about Jackalopes and a lot of other weird stuff in my new booklet out by Charles River Editors, The Weird Wild West: Tall Tales and Legends about the Frontier. There was a free giveaway on Amazon for the past couple of days, but since I was traveling up to Oxford I didn't get a chance to tell all of you. Sorry about that! I think a lot of people will be reaidng about Jackalopes this week because it made it to #271 on Amazon!

Charles River has come out with a second booklet of mine on The Trench Warfare of World War I. It got up to #338 on Amazon during the free giveaway. Sadly, that's also over. I should really get a Smartphone and start obsessively checking the Internet like everyone else. On second thought, I think I'll stay in the real world. That's where the Jackalopes live!


Photo courtesy Jackalope postcards, which has an amazing collection online. Seeing is believing!

4 comments:

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

Congratulations on the great rankings!

Roland D. Yeomans said...

That is a wonderful ranking! I love the legend of the jackalope. The postcard was a hoot! :-)

Sean McLachlan said...

Now that the giveaway is over the ranking has gone down considerably, lol. It's still doing well though.

Donna Volkenannt said...

What a funny photo. I needed a laugh this morning, and it did just the trick. And congratulations on your high rankings.

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