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Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries
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Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries
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by David Dary
Sales Rank : 57596
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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: University Press of Kansas March 1989
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0700603905
ISBN-13: 978-0700603909
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
"Comprehensive and entertaining. . . . Full of wry anecdotes." -- Time
"Dary tells the unvarnished truth about cowboys and analyzes the cultural force of the cowboy myth." -- New York times Book Review
"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
"The definitive treatment of the cowboy. . . . Impressive in its thoroughness, scope, and depth." -- San Diego Union
Product Description
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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