Richard W. Slatta Libri

Collection of essays that offers a "how-to" guide to comparative frontier research in the Americas. The popular Old West Cowboy is joined by the gaucho, llanero, vaquero, and charro as Slatta compares and contrasts their work techniques, forms of entertainment, equipment, diets, lingo, and vices.

Lavishly illustrated with photographs, paintings, and movie stills, this Western Heritage Award-winning book explores what life was actually like for the working cowboy in North America. "If you read only one book on cowboys, read this one".--Journal of the Southwest.