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The Cowboy Encyclopedia
Language: en
Pages: 504
Authors: Richard W. Slatta
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Over 450 entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth of both North and South America.
The Mythical West
Language: en
Pages: 475
Authors: Richard W. Slatta
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-11-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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This cultural journey down memory lane showcases how major Western figures, events, and places have been portrayed in folk legends, art, literature, and popular
The Mythic West in Twentieth-century America
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Robert G. Athearn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher:

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Briefly describes life in the West, and discusses the ephemeral nature of the region, western towns, the tourist industry, agriculture, fiction, and the ecology
A Dictionary of the Old West, 1850-1900
Language: en
Pages: 399
Authors: Peter Watts
Categories: Americanisms
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Wings

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The hybrid language of the frontier is revealed in this compilation of terms used by the cattlemen, frontiersmen, scouts, cowboys, and gamblers.
A Dictionary of the Old West, 1850-1900
Language: en
Pages: 424
Authors: Peter Christopher Watts
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1977 - Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

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A dictionary guide to Western terms, usages, origins and phrases common to cattleman, frontiersmen, scouts, cowboys and gamblers from 1850 to 1900.