Cow Boys and Cattle Men : : Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900 / / Jacqueline M. Moore.
Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman, owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by ana...
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Moore, Jacqueline M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Cow Boys and Cattle Men : Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900 / Jacqueline M. Moore. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2009] ©2009 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Doing the Job -- 1. Of Men and Cattle -- 2. From Boys to Men -- 3. At Work -- Part II: Having Fun -- 4. A Society of Men -- 5. Men and Women -- 6. In Town -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman, owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing the class, gender, and labor histories of ranching in Texas during the second half of the nineteenth century.As working-class men, cowboys showed their masculinity through their skills at work as well as public displays in town. But what cowboys thought was manly behavior did not always match those ideas of the business-minded cattlemen, who largely absorbed middle-class masculine ideals of restraint. Real men, by these standards, had self-mastery over their impulses and didn’t fight, drink, gamble or consort with "unsavory" women. Moore explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans considered the most masculine.Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Cattle trade Social aspects Texas History 19th century. Cowboys Texas History 19th century. Frontier and pioneer life Texas. Masculinity Texas History 19th century. Ranch life Texas History 19th century. Ranchers Texas History 19th century. Sex role Texas History 19th century. Social classes Texas History 19th century. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110706444 print 9780814757390 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814757390.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759844 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814759844/original |
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