Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier

Author/Contributor(s):	Slatta, Richard W
Publisher:	University of Nebraska Press
Date:	09/01/1992
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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).