Add to ORKGSome twenty years ago, while preparing a course on the frontier in literature, I first began to research the horsemen of the Americas. At that time, there were available only the numerous classic studies of the American cowboy, those by Dobie, Hough, Folsom, Abbott, Adams, Branch, Frantz and Choate, Santee, to name a few, but on the charro (vaquero), the llanero, the gaucho, or the huaso (guaso), very little was to be found. The few books, articles, extracts from travel logs that existed offered casual observations of these horsemen rather than a focused, coherent study. Only Edward Larocque Tinker\u27s seminal work, The Horsemen of the Americas and the Literature They Inspired, offered a scholarly incursion into the field
For two decades after the Civil War, Texas cowboys drove herds of wild longhorns up the Chisholm and...
A combination of myth and reality, the American West evokes images that feature the mustang as a cen...
The remarkable descriptions of places and people produced by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado\u27s expe...
Some twenty years ago, while preparing a course on the frontier in literature, I first began to rese...
The goal of this collection is to encourage the comparative study of frontiers and social history. T...
Perhaps the most widely recognized character in the history of the West is the American Cowboy. Acro...
This is one of those rare books that truly push the boundaries of the extant primary source material...
Novels and histories of the American West have always attracted a large, varied audience. Some reade...
Review of: "American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains," by Dan Flores
This book focuses on the golden age of the ranching industry in western Canada from the early 1880s ...
Although the title of this book might be somewhat misleading-it has little to do with daily ranch li...
Clio\u27s Cowboys is an important book, the first truly analytical historiography of the glory days ...
Growing out of work for a major exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, where Morgan Bail...
This collection presents a selection of papers delivered at the Canadian Cowboy Conference held in C...
The Comanches were the only tribe from the Pacific side of the Continental Divide to carve out a per...
For two decades after the Civil War, Texas cowboys drove herds of wild longhorns up the Chisholm and...
A combination of myth and reality, the American West evokes images that feature the mustang as a cen...
The remarkable descriptions of places and people produced by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado\u27s expe...
Some twenty years ago, while preparing a course on the frontier in literature, I first began to rese...
The goal of this collection is to encourage the comparative study of frontiers and social history. T...
Perhaps the most widely recognized character in the history of the West is the American Cowboy. Acro...
This is one of those rare books that truly push the boundaries of the extant primary source material...
Novels and histories of the American West have always attracted a large, varied audience. Some reade...
Review of: "American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains," by Dan Flores
This book focuses on the golden age of the ranching industry in western Canada from the early 1880s ...
Although the title of this book might be somewhat misleading-it has little to do with daily ranch li...
Clio\u27s Cowboys is an important book, the first truly analytical historiography of the glory days ...
Growing out of work for a major exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, where Morgan Bail...
This collection presents a selection of papers delivered at the Canadian Cowboy Conference held in C...
The Comanches were the only tribe from the Pacific side of the Continental Divide to carve out a per...
For two decades after the Civil War, Texas cowboys drove herds of wild longhorns up the Chisholm and...
A combination of myth and reality, the American West evokes images that feature the mustang as a cen...
The remarkable descriptions of places and people produced by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado\u27s expe...
