{"product_id":"cow-boys-and-cattle-men-jacqueline-m-moore-9780814757390","title":"Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eCowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman, owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing the class, gender, and labor histories of ranching in Texas during the second half of the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003eAs working-class men, cowboys showed their masculinity through their skills at work as well as public displays in town. But what cowboys thought was manly behavior did not always match those ideas of the business-minded cattlemen, who largely absorbed middle-class masculine ideals of restraint. Real men, by these standards, had self-mastery over their impulses and didn't fight, drink, gamble or consort with \"unsavory\" women. Moore explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans considered the most masculine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacqueline M. Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814757391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814757390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.14w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/29\/2010 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2010","brand":"Jacqueline M. Moore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086918463743,"sku":"9780814757390","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_95c1d741-b4b5-45fd-b861-b987a814238b.jpg?v=1769097316","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cow-boys-and-cattle-men-jacqueline-m-moore-9780814757390","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}