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First published in 1975 and now in paperback, Cowboy Life continues to be a landmark study on the historical and legendary dimensions of the cowboy. The central figure in American mythology, the cowboy can be seen everywhere: in films, novels, advertisements, TV, sports, and music. Though his image holds little resemblance to the historical cowboy, it is important because it represents many qualities with which Americans identify, including bravery, honor, chivalry, and individualism. Accounts by Joseph G. McCoy, Richard Irving Dodge, Charles A. Siringo, and many others detail the daily trials and tribulations of cowboy life on the southern Great Plains-particularly Texas, Indian Territory, and Kansas-from the 1860s to around 1900. And in a new Afterword, editor William W. Savage, Jr., discusses the directions the cowboy myth has taken in the past two decades, as well as the impact the new Western history and films such as Lonesome Dove have had on popular culture.

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Cowboy Life
title:Cowboy Life : Reconstructing an American Myth
author:Savage, William W.
publisher:University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin:0870812939
print isbn13:9780870812934
ebook isbn13:9780585026862
language:English
subjectCowboys--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 SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984
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To the memory of William Levi Taylor
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Page vii Contents Preface to the New Edition ix Illust - photo 4
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Contents
Preface to the New Edition
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Illustrations
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Editor's Introduction
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JOSEPH G. MCCOY: "Anger and bad whiskey urge him on to deeds of blood and death" (1874)
17
RICHARD IRVING DODGE: "The most reckless of all the reckless desperadoes" (1882)
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WALTER BARON VON RICHTHOFEN: "Among cowboys are to be found the sons of the best families" (1885)
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CHARLES A SIRINGCO: "I spent my last dime for a glass of lemonade" (1885)
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JOSEPH NIMMO, JR.: "A creature of circumstance" (1886)
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CHARLES MOREAU HARGER: "Aman of unflinchingcourage" (1892)
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RICHARD HARDING DAVIS: "There are cowboys and cowboys" (1892)
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W. S. JAMES: "The cow-boy goes to the school of nature" (1898)
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BAYLIS JOHN FLETCHER: "Wilderness was a source of great joy to the cowboys" (1898-1912)
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ALFRED HENRY LEWIS: "He becomes deeply and famously drunk" (1902)
155
NATIONAL LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION: "No class of men ever was so unfaithfully represented" (1905)
161
ANDY ADAMS: "Dead tough men bawled like babies" (1906)
191
FRANK COLLINSON: "I am glad I had the experience" (1934-43)
199
Afterword to the New Edition
209
Photo Section
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Preface to the New Edition
"This book presents a composite view of the life of the cowboy on the Southern Great Plainsmore particularly Texas, Indian Territory, and Kansasfrom the 1860's to around 1900. It has reference to the persistence of the cowboy image in American culture, argues in behalf of the mythic qualities of that image, and suggests that, if myths are to be useful, their basis in reality must be understood." Or at least that was how the Preface to the first edition of Cowboy Life had it in 1975. In the years since, the book has proved to be a durable item, establishing itself in standard bibliographies as an acceptable anthology. The University Press of Colorado has seen fit to reissue
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