Cowboys : A Library of Congress Book

Cowboys are often portrayed as heroes from America's past. However, the real cowboy's life was more than just gunfights and daring escapades. It was also the challenge of a cattle drive or breaking in wild horses. And sometimes at the end of a long day, a cowboy had only his horse for companionship. Yet even today, cowboys continue to personify all that was new and exciting about frontier life.With over one hundred vintage photographs, posters, and paintings from the archives of the Library of Congress, often called "the storehouse of the national memory," here is the story of the real American cowboy--and what made that life such a legendary one.At Home On the Range