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The cowboy Cover Image Book Book

The cowboy

Langmore, Bank. (Author). Tyler, Ron. (Added Author).

Summary: His glory days began after the Civil War, at the start of the great traildrives. They have made h im an American phenomenon--a monument of American history, a dream of the American subconscious, an image of everything Americans like in themselves. Best of all the image and the reality still exist in the American West today. Here is the fabulous story of the cowboy past and the cowboy present, the cowboy who was an the cowboy who is.

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  • ISBN: 9780688029623 :
  • ISBN: 0688029620 :
  • Physical Description: print
    251 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Morrow, [1975]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Ridge Press book."
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Bibliography: p. [248]-[249]
Formatted Contents Note: The real cowboy. -- The development of ranching. -- The trails and the towns. -- The trail drive. -- The cattle barons. -- The cowboy's work. -- The decline of open-range ranching. -- "A prehistoric race." -- A living myth.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
Donation ; William C. Wonders ; 2007/10.

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Subject: Cowboys -- West (U.S.)
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Cranbrook Campus F 596 .L36 1975 (Text) 11111000135865 CRANBROOK Volume hold Available -
VIU Library - Nanaimo Campus F 596 L36 1975 (Text) M011302054 STACKS Volume hold Available -
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