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).
- ISBN10 0803241348
- ISBN13 9780803241343
- Publish Date 1 September 1983
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 September 1998
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Nebraska Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 277
- Language English