Prep school cowboys : ranch schools in the American West / Melissa Bingmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bingmann, Melissa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Preparatory schools--West (U.S.)--History.

Preparatory schools.

Private schools--West (U.S.)--History.

Private schools.

Education--Social aspects--West (U.S.)--History.

Education.

Ranch life--West (U.S.).

Ranch life.

Ranchers--West (U.S.).

Ranchers.

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

Cowboys.

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

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"An engaging, well-researched account of the private schools that proliferated in the interwar years in the American Southwest. Bingmann does an excellent job of situating these schools in the context of the history of American education.""-Lynn Dumenil, author of The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920's

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Men-in-the-Making in the American West; 1: The Problem of the Rich Man's Son; 2: Private School Education in the West; 3: Constructing the West; 4: The West as Moral Space: Character, Citizenship, and Masculinity; 5: Ranch School Families; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826355447

0826355447

OCLC:

897467026