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Author Roach, Joyce Gibson

Title Cowgirls
Edition 2nd ed
Published College Station : University of North Texas Press, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (308 pages)
Contents Section I. Through a glass darkly : women of cattle country -- section II. Face to face : the commercial cowgirls -- section III. Beyond reality : distorted images -- section IV. The cowboy's point of view
Summary An important chapter in the history and folklore of the West is how women on the cattle frontier took their place as equal partners with men. The cowboy may be our most authentic folk hero, but the cowgirl is right on his heels. This Spur Award winning book fills a void in the history of the cowgirl. While Susan B. Anthony and her hoop-skirted friends were declaring that females too were created equal, Sally Skull was already riding and roping and marking cattle with her Circle S brand on the frontier of Texas. Wearing rawhide bloomers and riding astride, she thought nothing of crossing the bo
Notes Print version record
Subject Cowgirls -- West (U.S.)
Cowgirls
Manners and customs
SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs
Subject West United States
Form Electronic book
Author Kelton, Elmer
Sonnichsen, C. L
ISBN 9781574414950
157441495X