Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
2004
Abstract
Perhaps the most widely recognized character in the history of the West is the American Cowboy. Across two centuries of literature, film, and even historical writing, cowboys have always been represented to the American public as stereotypical characters of the western scene.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:1 (Winter 2004). Copyright © 2004 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.