Title: Gauchos and the vanishing frontier
First published: 1983
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.
Subjects: Gauchos, History, Argentina, history
Places: Argentina, Buenos Aires (Argentina : Province), Buenos Aires (Province)