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Title: The American Cowboy

Subtitle: The Myth and the Reality

Author: Joe B Frantz, Julian Ernest Choate Jr.

Narrator: Steve Toner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-16

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The cowboy, America's most popular folk hero, appeals to millions of readers of novels, histories, biographies, and folk tales. Cowboys command a vast audience on country radio, television, and at the movies, but what exactly is a cowboy?

Authors Joe B. Frantz and Julian Ernest Choate, Jr., reveal the real, dyed-in-the-wool cowboy as a heroic being from the American past, who richly deserves to be understood in terms of reality, instead of myth. Here, then, is the definitive portrait of the American cowboy - in frontier history and in literature - reexamined, revitalized, and set in the proper perspective.

Many exciting accounts of cowboy life have been presented by such talented writers as J. Evetts Haley, J. Frank Dobie, Wayne Gard, Walter Prescott Webb, Edward Everett Dale, Helena Huntington Smith, Ramon F. Adams, and C. L. Sonnichsen. But Frantz and Choate see the cowboy in relation to the entire panorama of western history and as part of a continuing tradition: "The American cowboy has carved a niche - niche nothing, it's a gorge - in American affection as a folk hero, and in this role we have surveyed him."

Critic Reviews:

"I couldn't find any place to lay it down, and I covered every chapter...It is my guess that The American Cowboy will take top place in its field. (Walter Prescott Webb)

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

This was a great research piece

A good read

Interesting book. I learned some history I was not aware of about the settlement of the west. I enjoyed this quick read and some myths I had grown up with concerning cowboys. What a rugged life.

Home on the range.

Great book on the real everyday life of a cowboy from my history teacher at Corpus Christi State University in 1993.

Who Really Rode that Range?

This is THE definitive book on the reality of that American icon, the cowboy. Basic research for this book was carried out by Dr. Choate in the development of his somewhat massive PhD dissertation. Joe B. Frantz (ignore the awkward authorship information above) essentially was Choate's editor, transforming Choate's academic product into an eminently readable and engrossing account of both the glorious myth and the gritty reality

of life on the range. Choate and Frantz shoot down (pun intended) the mythology of the quick-draw gun duel popularized by Hollywood and even more egregiously in the 1950s-60s era of television westerns. Their debunking of much of the lore created around such notable non-cowboys as Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp will gratify any who sincerely seek the real lowdown on these somewhat lowdown characters. An easy read, a great "beach book," hard to put down as the reader senses that at last he is getting the straight skinny on an all-too-often mythologized extinct American subspecies.