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Cowboy life: reconstructing an American myth

Savage, William W. (Author).

Summary: Selected narratives and photographs provide a composite view of cowboy life in late nineteenth-century Texas, the Indian Territory, and Kansas, illuminating the persisting mythic image of the cowboy in American culture.

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  • ISBN: 0806112182
  • Physical Description: xii, 208 pages. : illustrations
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  • Edition: [1st ed.]
  • Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1975]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: Anger and bad whiskey urge him on to deeds of blood and death / Joseph G. McCoy -- Most reckless of all the reckless desperadoes / Richard Irving Dodge -- Among cowboys are to be found the sons of the best families / Walter Baron Von Richthofen -- tI spend my last dime for a glass of lemonade / Charles A. Siringo -- Creature of circumstance / Joesph Nimmo, Jr. -- Man of unflinching courage / Charles Moreau Harger -- There are cowboys and cowboys / Richard Harding Davis -- Cow-boy goes to the school of nature / W.S. James -- Wilderness was a source of great joy to the cowboys / Baylis John Fletcher -- He becomes deeply and famously drunk / Alfred Henry Lewis -- No class of men ever was so unfaithfully represented / National Livestock Association -- Dead tough men bawled like babies / Andy Adams -- I am glad I had the experience / Frank Collinson.
Subject: Cowboys West (U.S.)

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