The Cowboy

Six-Shooters, Songs, and Sex

• Author(s): Charles W. Harris, Buck Rainey,
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Pages: 167
• ISBN_10: 0806113413
  ISBN_13: 9780806113418
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / 19th Century ,

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One of America’s unique contributions to world culture, the cowboy has captured the imagination of people everywhere. In The Cowboy: Six-Shooters, Songs, and Sex, eight renowned western writers report on what the cowboys really were like and what they are like today. Contributors detail how the cowboys lived, loved, and died, how they fared when ranchers switched from running cattle to entertaining dudes, and how the media have depicted the cowboy.