Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier

Name: Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier
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ISBN: 9780803292154

ISBN-10: 0803292155

ISBN-13: 9780803292154

Edition: 1983 (Reprint)

Authors: Richard W. Slatta, Richard Slatta

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Although as much romanticized as the American cowboy, the Argentine gaucho lived a persecuted, marginal existence, beleaguered by mandatory passports, vagrancy laws, and forced military service. The story of this nineteenth-century migratory ranch hand is told in vivid detail by Richard W. Slatta, a professor of history at North Carolina State University at Raleigh and the author ofCowboys of the Americas(1990).

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 9/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 273
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Who Was the Gaucho?



The Pampa and Frontier Abundance



Gaucho to Peon: Changing Ranch Labor



Women and Family Life



Material Culture: Housing, Clothing, Food, Recreation



Latifundia and the Ranching Elite



Estanciero versus Gaucho: Legal Restrictions



Forced Military Service



Sheep, Fences, and Farming



Immigration and Xenophobia



Man to Myth: Literary and Symbolic Images



Population Growth, Buenos Aires Province, 1778-1914



Livestock and Wheat Production, Buenos Aires Province and Argentina, 1866-1914



Changing Composition of Argentine Exports, 1822-1919


Notes


Glossary


Selected Bibliography


Index