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Clio's cowboys : studies in the historiography of the cattle trade /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walker, Don D., 1917-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1981]
Subjects:
Cowboys > West (U.S.) > Historiography.
Cattle trade > West (U.S.) > Historiography.
Ranch life > West (U.S.) > Historiography.
Cowboys > West (U.S.) > History.
West (U.S.) > Historiography.
Table of Contents:
  • History through a cow's horn: Joseph G. McCoy and his Historic sketches of the cattle trade
  • The rancher as writer: Theodore Roosevelt's sketches of the cattle trade
  • Prose and poetry of the cattle industry
  • Classics of the cattle trade
  • Freedom and individualism on the range
  • The fence line between cowboy history and cowboy fiction
  • Theory of the cowboy novel
  • The left side of the American ranges
  • The cowboy with a sense of the past
  • A notice left at the gate still open.