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Buckaroo: Views of a Western Way of Life

Introduction | The Cowman's Dominion |  Emigrants, Miners, Railroads, Ranchers
Vaqueros | Working | Cattlemen Were Farmers First | The Cowboy's Creed
At the Ranch | Irons | Clothing | Bunkhouses and Line Camp Cabins

This essay originally appeared in Buckaroos in Paradise: Cowboy Life in Northern Nevada, published by the Library of Congress in 1980 and republished as a Bison Book by the University of Nebraska Press in 1981. The book marked the midpoint of the Paradise Valley Folklife Project and accompanied an exhibition mounted at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in 1980.

  Buckaroos at Cabin [35mm slide]