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The Broadview Source Ser.: Ranching and the American West : A History in Documents by Susan Nance (2021, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBroadview Press
ISBN-101554814812
ISBN-139781554814817
eBay Product ID (ePID)27057251911
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRanching and the American West : a History in Documents
SubjectUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY)
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaHistory
AuthorSusan Nance
SeriesThe Broadview Source Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Length9 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2022-362438
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsThis is the primary source collection I've always wanted. Full of journals, letters, photos, paintings, maps, songs, and even advertisements, this is a comprehensive--and fun--look at the history of ranching and the American West. Susan Nance is the ultimate tour guide for this story. She provides discussion questions and writing prompts but encourages you to draw your own conclusions. Ranching and the American Westis perfect for students or anyone looking to learn more about this fascinating topic. -- Joshua Specht, University of Notre Dame Ranching and the American Westis a thoughtful, beautifully constructed, and frighteningly accurate and objective examination of one of the nation's iconic businesses. It takes the reader from the origins of Western American ranching through its evolution to what we know as ranching today. This book is a brilliant blending of the culture, environment (especially in relation to horses and cattle), and people involved in Western ranching. The volume will be an invaluable resource.... And while this study focuses on ranching in the American West, its examination of the settler colonial process transcends boundaries. It offers insights into the shaping not only of the West but of America as a whole. -- Jeffrey D. Means, University of Wyoming
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal636.010978
SynopsisThe transformation of the American West is one of the key topics in the study of both US history and global environmental history. The role of ranching in the West is also central to the growing field of animal history. This volume covers the periods between the early Indigenous acquisition of horses in the eighteenth century, to the introduction of Hispanic horsemanship techniques and market cattle in the Old West, and finally to the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century ranching families sustaining their ways of life. The documents in this volume reveal not simply the human past but also the distinct histories of cattle, horses, and the land. Readers will explore intersecting themes of capitalism and beef, environmental change, rural labor, and gender and racial politics as debated by westerners themselves, as well as the meaning and power of the cowboy myth in American life. The introduction incorporates recent scholarship and provides a fresh look at this key topic in American history, while informative headnotes and rich annotations help orient the reader within the historical sources., This primary source reader on the history of ranching in the American West explores intersecting themes of capitalism and beef, environmental change, rural labor, gender and racial politics, and the power of the cowboy myth.
LC Classification NumberSF196.W3R36 2021
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