Historians of the American west, perhaps inspired by NAFTA and
Internet communication, are expanding their intellectual horizons
across borders north and south. This collection of essays functions
as a how-to guide to comparative frontier research in the American.
Frontiers specialist Richard W. Slatta presents topics, techniques,
and methods that will intrigue social-science professionals and
western-history buffs alike as he explores the frontiers of North
and South America from Spanish colonial days into the twentieth
century. The always popular cowboy is joined by the fascinating
gaucho, llanero, vaquero, and charro as Slatta compares their work
techniques, roundups, songs, tack, lingo, equestrian culture, and
vices. We visit saloons and pulperIas as well as plains pampas, and
Slatta expertly compares clothing, weather, terrain, diets,
alcoholic beverages, card games, and military tactics. From primary
records we learn how Europeans, Native Americans, and African
Americans become the ranch hands, cowmen, and buckaroos of the
Americas, and why their dependence on the ranch cattle industry
kept them bachelors and landless peons. Richard W. Slatta is
Professor of History at North Carolina State University and the
author of numerous books, including Comparing Cowboys and
Frontiers. "Slatta vigorously examines the historical, cultural,
and populist aspects of cowboying, paying close attention to their
material culture, recreation, and working conditions. This is an
enormously interesting and informative study."---Books of the
Southwest
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