Cow Talk: Work, Ecology, and Range Cattle Ranchers in the Postwar Mountain West Volume 8

by Michelle K. Berry

Book Overview

The image of western ranchers making a stand for their "rights"--against developers, the government, "illegal" immigrants--may be commonplace today, but the political power of the cowboy was a long time in the making. In a book steeped in the culture, traditions, and history of western range ranching, Michelle K. Berry takes readers into the Cold War world of cattle ranchers in the American West to show how that power, with its implications for the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806191910
• ISBN13: 9780806191911
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"