Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries
- ISBN-10
- 0700603905
- ISBN-13
- 9780700603909
- Category
- History / Social History
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Author
- David Dary
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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