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Historians of the American West, perhaps inspired by NAFTA and Internet communication, are expanding their intellectual horizons across borders north and south. This collection of essays functions as a how-to guide to comparative frontier research in the Americas. Frontiers specialist Richard W. Slatta presents topics, techniques, and methods that will intrigue social science professionals and western history buffs alike as he explores the frontiers of North and South America from Spanish colonial days into the twentieth century.
The always popular cowboy is joined by the fascinating gaucho, llanero, vaquero, and charro as Slatta compares their work techniques, roundups, songs, tack, lingo, equestrian culture, and vices. We visit saloons and pulperias as well as plains and pampas, and Slatta expertly compares clothing, weather, terrain, diets, alcoholic beverages, card games, and military tactics. From primary records we learn how Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans became theranch hands, cowmen, and buckaroos of the Americas, and why their dependence on the ranch cattle industry kept them bachelors and landless peons.
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As a field of inquiry, comparative history illuminates how and why historical similarities and differences arise. This wide-ranging collection of essays is presented as a how-to guidebook in comparative research as it relates to frontiers and cowboys. The frontiers of both North and South America are examined from the Spanish colonial period to the twentieth century. The term cowboys in the title is presented as a wide concept that includes gauchos, llaneros, vaqueros, and charros. Each of these groups provides an interesting subject for comparison relative to working technique, equestrian culture, tack used, and lingo spoken. Diets, alcoholic beverages, clothing, and terrains are other topics presented, which will not only fascinate western buffs but also appeal to those interested in social science. Warnings in the concluding chapter about the dangers of overrevisionism are quite significant and should probably have been accorded greater emphasis. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) certainly establishes im-portant political and economic motivation for hemispherical studies such as this one, which is a significant sequel to the author's popular 1990 Cowboys of the Americas. --Fred Egloff
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Slatta continues and broadens the comparative approach to frontier history that he utilized in Cowboys of the Americas (CH, Feb'91). In that work, he compared the life and work of the cowboy in the US with counterparts in Canada and Latin America. This study adds a comparison of the impact of Spanish colonial military and missionary programs on the Indians of the pampas of Argentina with those in the internal provinces of New Spain. It shows how the introduction of the horse altered the lives of various Native American tribes in the Americas. Slatta offers advice for conducting research into frontier history, including the use of a variety of sources. He acknowledges the important contributions of revisionist historians in enlarging knowledge of frontier life, while criticizing "overrevisionism," especially the attempts to deconstruct frontier history. This well-written and informative work fulfills Slatta's intent to produce a guidebook for research into frontier history as well as a text for classroom use. Bibliography, notes, and pictures add to the quality of the book. Upper-division undergraduates and above. L. B. Gimelli; emeritus, Eastern Michigan University