Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business

by Carter, Sarah; Evans, Simon M.; Yeo, W. B.; Glenbow Museum; Yeo, Bill

• ISBN13: 9781552380192
• ISBN10: 155238019X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Colorado

Summary

An easily accessible and comprehensive summary of current studies on the Canadian ranching frontier. This collection of essays provides an excellent perspective on the latest developments in the historiography of the range, drawing from topics such as Wild West shows, artistic depictions of the cowboy, and the economic and practical aspects of early cattle ranching. The essays anthologized here fall into three general areas: the working cowboy, the performing cowboy and the imaginary cowboy, and the academics, ranchers, poets and cowboys who authored them hail from backgrounds as diverse as history, geography, political science, and literature. This book makes an important contribution to the study of the ranching frontier, and will continue to be of value to researchers and readers of western history, plains studies and historical geography.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Simon M. Evans
Does the Border Matter? Cattle Ranching and the 49th Parallel	1	(10)
Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov
Charles M. Russell, Cowboy Culture, and the Canadian Connection	11	(18)
Brian W. Dippie
Not an Old Cowhand -- Fred Stimson and the Bar U Ranch	29	(14)
Alan B. McCullough
George Lane: From Cowboy to Cattle King	43	(18)
Joy Oetelaar
Tenderfoot to Rider: Learning `Cowboying' on the Canadian Ranching Frontier during the 1800s	61	(20)
Simon M. Evans
The Untamed Canadian Ranching Frontier, 1874--1914	81	(20)
Warren M. Elofson
A Century of Ranching at the Rocking P and Bar S	101	(22)
Henry C. Klassen
The Impact of the Depression on Grazing Lease Policy in Alberta	123	(16)
Max Foran
Wild West Shows and the Canadian West	139	(14)
Lorain Lounsberry
The Canadian Cowboy Exhibition	153	(2)
Richard W. Slatta
Postscript: `He Country in Pants' No Longer --- Diversifying Ranching History	155	(12)
Sarah Carter
Postscript: Ranching History: Have We Covered the Ground Yet?	167	(2)
Bill Yeo
Notes on Contributors	169	(2)
Selected Bibliography	171	(10)
Notes	181	(40)
Index	221