Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business
Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History

Simon Evans, Sarah Carter, Bill Yeo, editors

About the Book

Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business is an easily accessible and comprehensive summary of current studies on the Canadian ranching frontier. This collection of essays provides an excellent perspective on the latest developments in the historiography of the range, drawing from topics such as Wild West shows, artistic depictions of the cowboy, and the economic and practical aspects of early cattle ranching.

The essays anthologized here fall into three general areas: the working cowboy, the performing cowboy and the imaginary cowboy, and the academics, ranchers, poets and cowboys who authored them hail from backgrounds as diverse as history, geography, political science, and literature.

Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business makes an important contribution to the study of the ranching frontier, and will continue to be of value to researchers and readers of western history, plains studies and historical geography.

"...a useful and important contribution to Western Canadian historiography." - Ian MacLachlan, Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge

About the Editors

Dr. Simon Evand has recently retired as Professor of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Dr. Sarah Carter teaches history at the Univerisity of Calgary.

Bill Yeo has recently retired from his position as Senior Historian and Chief of Historical and Archaeological Research for Parks Canada.

Table of Contents

1. Does the Border Matter? Cattle Ranching and the 49th Parallel
2. Charles M. Russell, Cowboy Culture, and the Canadian Connection
3. Not an Old Cowhand -- Fred Stimson and the Bar U Ranch
4. George Lane: From Cowboy to Cattle King
5. Tenderfoot to Rider: Learning 'Cowboying' on the Canadian Ranching Frontier during the 1880s
6. The Untamed Canadian Ranching Frontier, 1874-1914
7. A Century of Ranching at the Rocking P and Bar S
8. The Impact of the Depression on Grazing Lease Policy in Alberta
9. Wild West Shows and the Canadian West
10. The Canadian Cowboy Exhibition
11. Postscript: 'He Country in Pants' No Longer -- Diversifying Ranching History
12. Postscript: Ranching History: Have We Covered the Ground Yet?

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