Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries

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Knopf, 1981 - History - 384 pages
Winner of the Cowboy Hall of Fame Wrangler Award, the Western Writers of America's Spur Award, and the Westerners International Best Nonfiction Book Award. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Moving North
27
The Californiano Culture
53
The Texian Culture
67
Copyright

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About the author (1981)

David Dary is a writer, journalist, and social historian. Dary worked for newspapers in Kansas and Texas early on in his career and eventually moved on to work for both CBS and NBC news. He then took the position of professor at the William Allan White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas. The themes of Dary's books center on many aspects of life in the western United States. Dary has written Red Blood and Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West, Entrepreneurs of the Old West, and Seeking Pleasure in the Old West, which received a Western Writers of America Spur Award. He has also received a Cowboy Hall of Fame Wrangler Award and the Westerner's International Award for his book Cowboy Culture.

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