{"product_id":"the-american-cowboy-joe-b-frantz-9780806152851","title":"American Cowboy: The Myth and the Reality","description":"\u003cbr\u003e The cowboy, America's most popular folk hero, appeals to millions of readers of novels, histories, biographies, and folk tales. Cowboys command a vast audience on country radio, television, and at the movies, but what exactly \u003ci\u003eis \u003c\/i\u003ea cowboy? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Authors Joe B. Frantz and Julian Ernest Choate, Jr., reveal the real, dyed-in-the-wool cowboy as a heroic being from the American past, who richly deserves to be understood in terms of reality, instead of myth. Here, then, is the definitive portrait of the American cowboy--in frontier history and in literature--reexamined, revitalized, and set in the proper perspective. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Many exciting accounts of cowboy life have been presented by such talented writers as J. Evetts Haley, J. Frank Dobie, Wayne Gard, Walter Prescott Webb, Edward Everett Dale, Helena Huntington Smith, Ramon F. Adams, and C. L. Sonnichsen. But Frantz and Choate see the cowboy in relation to the entire panorama of western history and as part of a continuing tradition: \"The American cowboy has carved a niche\u003ci\u003e--niche \u003c\/i\u003enothing, it's a gorge--in American affection as a folk hero, and in this role we have surveyed him.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American Cowboy: The Myth and the Reality \u003c\/i\u003eis illustrated with sixteen pages of the great cowboy photographs made more than a century ago by Erwin E. Smith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joe B. Frantz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0806152850\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806152851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Joe B. Frantz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947237540095,"sku":"9780806152851","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4ae43f5d-be04-4a08-8049-bd04d5345731.jpg?v=1681517525","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-american-cowboy-joe-b-frantz-9780806152851","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}