Cowboy life: reconstructing an American myth

313 Pages·1993·1.63 MB·English

by  William W. Savage

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Cowboy Life

Cowboy Life : Reconstructing an American
title:
Myth
author: Savage, William W.
publisher: University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin: 0870812939
print isbn13: 9780870812934
ebook isbn13: 9780585026862
language: English
subject Cowboys--West (U.S.)
publication date: 1993
lcc: F596.C8735 1993eb
ddc: 978
subject: Cowboys--West (U.S.)
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Cowboy Life
Reconstructing An American Myth
Edited and with a new Preface and Afterword by
William W. Savage, Jr.
University Press of Colorado
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Copyright © 1993 by the University Press of Colorado
Copyright © 1975 by the University of Oklahoma Press
Published by the University Press of Colorado
P.O. Box 849
Niwot, Colorado 80544
All rights reserved.
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing
enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State
University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan
State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of
Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western
State College of Colorado.
ISBN: 0-87081-293-9
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements
of the American National Standard for Information
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Z39.48-1984
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To the memory of William Levi Taylor
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Contents
Preface to the New Edition ix
Illustrations xi
Editor's Introduction 3
JOSEPH G. MCCOY: "Anger and bad whiskey urge him 17
on to deeds of blood and death" (1874)
RICHARD IRVING DODGE: "The most reckless of all 33
the reckless desperadoes" (1882)
WALTER BARON VON RICHTHOFEN: "Among 41
cowboys are to be found the sons of the best families"
(1885)
CHARLES A SIRINGCO: "I spent my last dime for a 49
glass of lemonade" (1885)
JOSEPH NIMMO, JR.: "A creature of circumstance" 77
(1886)
CHARLES MOREAU HARGER: "A man of unflinching 87
courage" (1892)
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS: "There are cowboys and 101
cowboys" (1892)
W. S. JAMES: "The cow-boy goes to the school of nature"107
(1898)
BAYLIS JOHN FLETCHER: "Wilderness was a source of121
great joy to the cowboys" (1898-1912)
ALFRED HENRY LEWIS: "He becomes deeply and 155
famously drunk" (1902)
NATIONAL LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION: "No class of 161
men ever was so unfaithfully represented" (1905)
ANDY ADAMS: "Dead tough men bawled like babies" 191
(1906)
FRANK COLLINSON: "I am glad I had the experience" 199
(1934-43)
Afterword to the New Edition 209
Photo Section 214
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