Gauchos and the vanishing frontier
By: Richard W. Slatta.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Gauchos -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires (Province); Buenos Aires (Argentina : Province) -- History.
Description: 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).--Publisher description.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [241]-265.
Includes index.