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Cowboy American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture

By Daniel Pruitt
Hardcover
$40.00
By Daniel Pruitt
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May your belly never grumble
May your heart never ache
May your horse never stumble
May your cinch never break

—Cowboy blessing

Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions that finally happened about 1860.

The east of North America was thickly forested. Modern cattle thrive in grasslands, and when white Europeans made their way to Texas, Kansas and Missouri they found a bonanza of gra...

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HistoryUnited States History19th Century United States History - General & Miscellaneous19th Century American History - General and Miscellaneous