Cow Boys and Cattle Men : Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900 / Jacqueline M. Moore.
2009
F391 .M934 2016
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Cow Boys and Cattle Men : Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900 / Jacqueline M. Moore.
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9780814759844
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New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
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©2009
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English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814757390.001.0001 doi
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F391 .M934 2016
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305.33636213097640
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
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
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