Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier |
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| Author:
| Slatta, Richard W. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8032-9215-4 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1992 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $27.00 |
Book Description:
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Although as much romanticized as the American cowboy, the Argentine gaucho lived a persecuted, marginal existence, beleaguered by mandatory passports, vagrancy laws, and forced military service. The story of this nineteenth-century migratory ranch hand is told in vivid detail by Richard W. Slatta, a professor of history at North Carolina State University at Raleigh and the author of Cowboys of the Americas (1990).
Although as much romanticized as the American cowboy, the Argentine gaucho lived a persecuted, marginal existence, beleaguered by mandatory passports, vagrancy laws, and forced military service. The story of this nineteenth-century migratory ranch hand is told in vivid detail by Richard W. Slatta, a professor of history at North Carolina State University at Raleigh and the author of Cowboys of the Americas (1990).