Cow boys and cattle men : class and masculinities on the Texas frontier, 1865-1900 / Jacqueline M. Moore.
Moore, Jacqueline M., 1965- author.; William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, issuing body.
2010
F391 .M934 2010
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Title Cow boys and cattle men : class and masculinities on the Texas frontier, 1865-1900 / Jacqueline M. Moore.
Author Moore, Jacqueline M., 1965- author.
ISBN 9780814757390 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814757391
9780814759844 (e-book)
Published New York : New York University Press, [2010]
Copyright ©2010
Language English
Description 1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations
Call Number F391 .M934 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.33/6362130976409034
Summary "Cowboys are an American legend, but despite their 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-classmen, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Note "Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Doing the job
Of men and cattle
From boys to men
At work
Having fun
A society of men
Men and women
In town
Epilogue: the cowboy becomes myth.

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