The cowgirls [electronic resource] / by Joyce Gibson Roach ; [preface by C.L. Sonnichsen ; afterword by Elmer Kelton].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roach, Joyce Gibson.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cowgirls--West (U.S.).

Cowgirls.

West (U.S.)--Social life and customs.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed., rev. and enl.

Place of Publication:

Denton : University of North Texas Press, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An important chapter in the history and folklore of the West is how women on the cattle frontier took their place as equal partners with men. The cowboy may be our most authentic folk hero, but the cowgirl is right on his heels. This Spur Award winning book fills a void in the history of the cowgirl. While Susan B. Anthony and her hoop-skirted friends were declaring that females too were created equal, Sally Skull was already riding and roping and marking cattle with her Circle S brand on the frontier of Texas. Wearing rawhide bloomers and riding astride, she thought nothing of crossing the bo

Contents:

section I. Through a glass darkly : women of cattle country

section II. Face to face : the commercial cowgirls

section III. Beyond reality : distorted images

section IV. The cowboy's point of view.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-249) and index.

ISBN:

1-57441-495-X

1-283-92522-2

0-585-25689-6

OCLC:

922904087