Behind the often outlandish, always fantastic, artistic endeavors of Texas artist Bob "Daddy-O" Wade (second cousin to Roy Rogers) lies a man whose talent and view of the world are as big as Texas itself. When it comes to creating his works, Daddy-O is just as liable to use a pistol as a paintbrush. Here are scores of stories that span a twenty-five-year period, exposing the madness behind the methodology. Daddy-O adopts a Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn approach to recruiting enough colorful sidekicks and resources to create his larger-than-life projects, such as a forty-foot iguana perched on the top of New York City's Lone Star Cafe, the Giant Dancing Frogs of Dallas, a machine-gunned Mardi Gras art van, or a seventy-foot multi-ton saxophone fashioned from oil-field pipes, hubcaps, beer kegs, a surfboard, and an upside-down Volkswagen Beetle.

Daddy-O: Iguana Heads & Texas Tales

Arts & Photography

Keith Zimmerman

Kent Zimmerman

Bob Wade

History & Criticism

St.Martin's Press

Those foolhardy, brave, reckless cowboys and cowgirls who ride the broncs and buckin' bulls. Why do they do it? Is it the thrill? The challenge of human over beast? Is it something in their wrangler genes that makes them itch to be tossed in the air, thrown headlong into the muck, stomped and trampled? Or is it the roar of the crowd that makes each rider settle onto his or her snorting mount and signal one more time to "bust open the chutegate"? Vintage photos of rodeo riders from the 1910s to 1930s, brought to life by artist Bob Wade's stylistic imagination, show the thrills and spills of rodeo. A foreword by six-time World Champion All-Around Cowboy Larry Mahan and an introduction by famous cowboy poet (himself a former rodeo maniac) Paul Zarzyski help answer the questions. They leave no doubt that rodeo gets into the blood - and vice versa.

Ridin' and Wreckin'

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Gibbs-Smith

Kids love to win--and any kid who has begun (or wants to begin) learning and loving this timeless game will cherish this clever follow-up to Winning Chess Piece by Piece. These brilliant tactics and techniques will hone and develop young players' skills and give their brains a real workout...while they're having a great time. They'll learn all the chess master's tricks of the trade: how to calculate moves far in advance, with the help of examples from winning games; strategies used by world champions--including Gary Kasparov's "discovered check" and "skewer"; Improving the Pieces to get in the best position to strike; and end game techniques. Along the way, quizzes help players chart their progress. Plus: you get a "certificate" for successfully completing the "course"!

Winning Chess

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Al Lawrence

Bob Wade Tes Noringham Al Lawrence

Crafts & Hobbies

Goodewill Publishing House

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