01/24/2024
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Cowboys of the Americas
$29.95.
Author: Richard W. Slatta
Richard W. Slatta explores the reality of cowboy life in the
United States, Canada, and Spanish America, from the cowboy's
beginnings as a wild-cattle hunter to his decline in the early
twentieth century. Lavishly illustrated with photographs,
artworks, and posters, Cowboys of the Americas evokes the
colorful world of North and South American cowboys in pictures
and words. Quoting extensively from first-hand descriptions of
cowboy and ranch life, Slatta provides fascinating vignettes of
the cowboy in the American and Canadian West, as well as of
Hawaii's paniolo, Mexico's vaquero, Venezuela's llanero, Chile's huaso, and
Argentina's gaucho. Slatta compares the appearance, dress,
character, and activities of these cowboys, demonstrating that
Spanish influence was pervasive in all open-range cattle
frontiers of North and South America. He takes the reader along
with the cowboy to roundups and trail drives, horse races,
campfires, saloons, and brothels. He reveals the harsh reality of
frontier racial conflict and Indian wars. And he discusses the
changes that overtook the cowboy as farmers, immigrants, and
technology pushed across the plains, transforming the old way of
life in the saddle and leaving the cowboy image alive only in
myth and popular culture. Slatta points out that this legacy of
the cowboys has not been unimportant, however. In Argentina and
Uruguay, for example, the once maligned gaucho was rehabilitated
by the elite as a symbolic weapon against the perceived threat
from urban immigrant masses. And in the United States, rodeos,
Wild West shows, novels, toys, advertising, films, and television
have transformed public perception of the cowboy from an uncouth
rowdy to a national hero, so that identification with the cowboy
h...
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