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Cowboys Gentlemen & Cattle Thieves: Ranching on the Western Frontier

Cowboys Gentlemen & Cattle Thieves: Ranching on the Western Frontier

Elofson, Warren

Hardcover

Canadian HistoryGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 0773521003
ISBN13: 9780773521001
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Oct 23 2000
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.33 Depth: 9.37
Language: English

Prostitution, gunfights, barroom brawls, and cattle rustling - prevailing images from the American old West - have typically been absent from histories of a gentler Canadian frontier. In Cowboys, Gentlemen, and Cattle Thieves Warren Elofson argues that the Canadian frontier was less restrained, law-abiding, and insulated from death and violence than has been believed.

An Alberta rancher himself, Elofson helps us feel the dust, sweat, cold, and danger of round-ups as well as the disheartening after-effects of stampedes. He describes the massive losses incurred when herds were subjected to winter storms, wolves, prairie fires, disease, and rustlers and provides vivid illustrations of the dangers of ordinary life for both cowboy and settler. Cowboys, Gentlemen, and Cattle Thieves argues that the greatest influence on ranchers and settlers was the need to deal with the frontier environment and shows that adoption of intensive agricultural practices helped them carve out a permanent place in rural western Canada.

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