![]() | Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900 Subjects: Cowboys -- Texas -- History -- 19th century; Ranchers -- Texas -- History -- 19th century; Masculinity -- Texas -- History -- 19th century; Sex role -- Texas -- History -- 19th century; Ranch life -- Texas -- History -- 19th century; Frontier and pioneer; 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. Moore Jacqueline M. : Jacqueline M. Moore is Professor of History at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. She is the author of several books, including Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois and the Struggle for Racial Uplift. |
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