Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier

ISBN-13: 9780803292154 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 273 str.

Richard W. 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 of Cowboys of the Americas (1990).