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The Resource The great cowboy strike : bullets, ballots & class conflicts in the American West, Mark Lause

The great cowboy strike : bullets, ballots & class conflicts in the American West, Mark Lause

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"In the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of 'rugged individualism', independent, solitary, and stoical. In reality, cowboys were grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal workers, who responded to the abuses of their employers in a series of militant strikes. Their resistance arose from the rise and demise of a "beef bonanza" that attracted international capital. Business interests approached the market with the expectation that it would have the same freedom to brutally impose its will as it had exercised on native peoples and the recently emancipated African Americans. These assumptions contributed to a series of bitter and violent 'range wars', which broke out from Texas to Montana and framed the appearance of labor conflicts in the region. These social tensions stirred a series of political insurgencies that became virtually endemic to the American West of the Gilded Age. Mark A. Lause explores the relationship between these neglected labor conflicts, the 'range wars', and the third-party movements."--Page [4] of cover
Language
eng
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Extent
xi, 283 pages
Contents
  • The West beyond Kansas: murders and range wars--Arkansas, Texas, Arizona, and Wyoming
  • Wizardly, empire, and the final subjugation of the West
  • How the West was made
  • Mysteries of the heartland: the emergence of the post-war western radicalism
  • The wrong side of the tracks: the dangerous classes of the new American west
  • The panhandle strike of 1883: an appropriately rough interrogation of the sources
  • The cowboy strike wave, 1884-6: worker persistence, employer responses, and the political implications
  • Destinies of the industrial brotherhood: a high-water mark of Western worker militancy, 1886
  • The destiny of the farmers' alliance: the implosions of the cattle trade, the Union Labor party, and the national election fiasco of 1888
  • From Coffeyville to Woodsdale: Kansas variations on the uses of political violence
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9781786631961
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The great cowboy strike : bullets, ballots & class conflicts in the American West
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The great cowboy strike
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bullets, ballots & class conflicts in the American West
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Mark Lause
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
"In the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of 'rugged individualism', independent, solitary, and stoical. In reality, cowboys were grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal workers, who responded to the abuses of their employers in a series of militant strikes. Their resistance arose from the rise and demise of a "beef bonanza" that attracted international capital. Business interests approached the market with the expectation that it would have the same freedom to brutally impose its will as it had exercised on native peoples and the recently emancipated African Americans. These assumptions contributed to a series of bitter and violent 'range wars', which broke out from Texas to Montana and framed the appearance of labor conflicts in the region. These social tensions stirred a series of political insurgencies that became virtually endemic to the American West of the Gilded Age. Mark A. Lause explores the relationship between these neglected labor conflicts, the 'range wars', and the third-party movements."--Page [4] of cover
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10612694
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Lause, Mark A
Dewey number
978.02
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
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non fiction
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  • Cowboys
  • Equality
  • Strikes and lockouts
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • West (U.S.)
  • HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
  • Cowboys
  • Equality
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Strikes and lockouts
  • California
  • United States, West
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bullets, ballots & class conflicts in the American West
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The great cowboy strike : bullets, ballots & class conflicts in the American West, Mark Lause
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Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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Contents
  • The West beyond Kansas: murders and range wars--Arkansas, Texas, Arizona, and Wyoming
  • Wizardly, empire, and the final subjugation of the West
  • How the West was made
  • Mysteries of the heartland: the emergence of the post-war western radicalism
  • The wrong side of the tracks: the dangerous classes of the new American west
  • The panhandle strike of 1883: an appropriately rough interrogation of the sources
  • The cowboy strike wave, 1884-6: worker persistence, employer responses, and the political implications
  • Destinies of the industrial brotherhood: a high-water mark of Western worker militancy, 1886
  • The destiny of the farmers' alliance: the implosions of the cattle trade, the Union Labor party, and the national election fiasco of 1888
  • From Coffeyville to Woodsdale: Kansas variations on the uses of political violence
Control code
ocn969542899
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xi, 283 pages
Isbn
9781786631961
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
System control number
(OCoLC)969542899
Label
The great cowboy strike : bullets, ballots & class conflicts in the American West, Mark Lause
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The West beyond Kansas: murders and range wars--Arkansas, Texas, Arizona, and Wyoming
  • Wizardly, empire, and the final subjugation of the West
  • How the West was made
  • Mysteries of the heartland: the emergence of the post-war western radicalism
  • The wrong side of the tracks: the dangerous classes of the new American west
  • The panhandle strike of 1883: an appropriately rough interrogation of the sources
  • The cowboy strike wave, 1884-6: worker persistence, employer responses, and the political implications
  • Destinies of the industrial brotherhood: a high-water mark of Western worker militancy, 1886
  • The destiny of the farmers' alliance: the implosions of the cattle trade, the Union Labor party, and the national election fiasco of 1888
  • From Coffeyville to Woodsdale: Kansas variations on the uses of political violence
Control code
ocn969542899
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
xi, 283 pages
Isbn
9781786631961
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
System control number
(OCoLC)969542899

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