Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155238019X ISBN 13: 9781552380192

Publisher: University of Calgary Press, 2000

Synopsis

Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business is an easily accessible and comprehensive summary of current studies on the Canadian ranching frontier. This collection of essays provides an excellent perspective on the latest developments in the historiography of the range, drawing from topics such as Wild West shows, artistic depictions of the cowboy, and the economic and practical aspects of early cattle ranching.

The essays anthologized here fall into three general areas: the working cowboy, the performing cowboy and the imaginary cowboy. The academics, ranchers, poets and cowboys who authored them hail from backgrounds as diverse as history, geography, political science, and literature.

Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business makes an important contribution to the study of the ranching frontier and will continue to be of value to researchers and readers of western history, plains studies, and historical geography.

About this title

About the Author:

Simon Evans is a former Professor of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Sarah Carter teaches history at the Univerisity of Alberta.

Bill Yeo has retired from his position as Senior Historian and Chief of Historical and Archaeological Research for Parks Canada.

Review:

A useful and important contribution to Western Canadian historiography.

—Ian MacLachlan, University of Lethbridge

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 155238019X
• ISBN 13: 9781552380192
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246
• Editor: Evans Simon M., Carter Sarah, Yeo Bill