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American Dude Ranch - A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West (Paperback)
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American Dude Ranch - A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West (Paperback)
Series: William F. Cody Series on the History and Culture of the American West
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Viewers of films and television shows might imagine the dude ranch
as something not quite legitimate, a place where city dwellers
pretend to be cowboys in amusingly inauthentic fashion. But the
tradition of the dude ranch, America's original western vacation,
is much more interesting and deeply connected with the culture and
history of the American West. In American Dude Ranch, Lynn Downey
opens new perspectives on this buckaroo getaway, with all its
implications for deciphering the American imagination. Dude
ranching began in the 1880s when cattle ranches ruled the West.
Men, and a few women, left the comforts of their eastern lives to
experience the world of the cowboy. But by the end of the century,
the cattleman's West was fading, and many ranchers turned to
wrangling dudes instead of livestock. What began as a way for
ranching to survive became a new industry, and as the twentieth
century progressed, the dude ranch wove its way into American life
and culture. Wyoming dude ranches hosted silent picture shoots,
superstars such as Gene Autry were featured in dude film plots,
fashion designers and companies like Levi Strauss & Co.
replicated the films' western styles, and novelists Zane Grey and
Mary Roberts Rinehart moved dude ranching into popular literature.
Downey follows dude ranching across the years, tracing its
influence on everything from clothing to cooking and showing how
ranchers adapted to changing times and vacation trends. Her book
also offers a rare look at women's place in this story, as they
found personal and professional satisfaction in running their own
dude ranches. However contested and complicated, western history is
one of America's national origin stories that we turn to in times
of cultural upheaval. Dude ranches provide a tangible link from the
real to the imagined past, and their persistence and popularity
demonstrate how significant this link remains. This book tells
their story-in all its familiar, eccentric, and often surprising
detail.
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