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ISBN-10:: 0700603905
ISBN-13:: 9780700603909
Pub. Date:: 03/20/1989
Publisher:: University Press of Kansas

ISBN-10:: 0700603905
ISBN-13:: 9780700603909
Pub. Date:: 03/20/1989
Publisher:: University Press of Kansas

Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries / Edition 1

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A nationwide bestseller—with more than 65,000 copies in print since publication by Alfred A. Knopf in 1981, this fascinating chronicle of cowboy life and legend is now available in a trade paperback edition. It's the 500-year saga of the "real cowboy"—from fifteenth-century Mexico to the twentieth-century American West.

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ISBN-13:	9780700603909
Publisher:	University Press of Kansas
Publication date:	03/20/1989
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	534,308
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Foreword

1. The Spanish Roots

2. Moving North

3. The Californiano Culture

4. The Texian Culture

5. The Mixing of Cultures

6. Texas Trails North

7. The Civil War and Change

8. On the Open Range

9. Trail Herds to Railheads

10. Where the Trails Ended

11. On the Northern Ranges

12. Ranch House Culture

13. Bunkhouse Culture

14. End of the Open-Range Culture

Epilogue

Notes

A Bibliography for the General Reader

Index

What People are Saying About This

Dee Brown

Immensely readable….a classic is what I label it.
—(Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee)

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Editorial Reviews

"Drawing on diaries, journals, letters, maps, and pictures, Dary tells the unvarnished truth about cowboys and analyzes the cultural force of the cowboy myth."—New York times Book Review
"Comprehensive and entertaining. . . . Full of wry anecdotes. . . . Dary understands the double legacy of the real West—hard fact and rich myth—and he savors it."—Time
"The definitive treatment of the cowboy. . . . Impressive in its thoroughness, scope, and depth. Anyone interested in the history, sociology, and economics of the West will find it valuable and fascinating."—San Diego Union
"Evocative reading. . . . A kind of source book for all the Westerns you’ve ever seen and are ever likely to see. . . . Between the lines, Cowboy Culture offers the germ of a story idea on almost every page."—Los Angeles Times
"Fun and enriching, packed with original research, it gives us a better understanding of that part of our past we have always worshiped. More that that, it gives us an idea of what we have lost."—Chicago Sun-Times
"An exuberant book, bubbling over with tales, stories, and recollections. If one were going to buy a single book on the cowboy and his life and business, this ought to be it."—South Dakota History

"Immensely readable. A classic is what I label it."—Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

From the Publisher

Dary tells the unvarnished truth about cowboys and analyzes the cultural force of the cowboy myth.

New York Times Book Review

Comprehensive and entertaining. . . . Full of wry anecdotes.

Time

The definitive treatment of the cowboy. . . . Impressive in its thoroughness, scope, and depth.

San Diego Union

Evocative reading. . . . A kind of source book for all the Westerns you've ever seen and are ever likely to see.

Los Angeles Times

Fun and enriching, packed with original research.

Chicago Sun-Times

If one were going to buy a single book on the cowboy and his life, this ought to be it.

South Dakota History

Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries / Edition 1

Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries / Edition 1

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