Enduring Cowboys: Life in the New Mexico Saddle
By Unknown Author.
Description
The great cowboy phenomenon of the American West began with the Spanish exploration and settlement of New Mexico more than 400 years ago. Enduring Cowboys explores the advent of the vaquero in sixteenth-century New Mexico and continues through the years to the authentic working cowboy of today. Essays by some of the state's most knowledgeable writers examine many issues confronting the contemporary cowboy, including environmentalism, technology, and economics and the threats they pose to the historically entrenched cowboy lifestyle. Also explored is the romanticization of the cowboy in...
ISBN(s)
093720658X, 9780937206584
