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Author Bingmann, Melissa

Title Prep school cowboys : ranch schools in the American West / Melissa Bingmann
Edition First edition
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2015]

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Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Men-in-the-Making in the American West; 1: The Problem of the Rich Man's Son; 2: Private School Education in the West; 3: Constructing the West; 4: The West as Moral Space: Character, Citizenship, and Masculinity; 5: Ranch School Families; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
Summary "An engaging, well-researched account of the private schools that proliferated in the interwar years in the American Southwest. Bingmann does an excellent job of situating these schools in the context of the history of American education.""--Lynn Dumenil, author of The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Preparatory schools -- West (U.S.) -- History
Private schools -- West (U.S.) -- History
Education -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.) -- History
Ranch life -- West (U.S.)
Ranchers -- West (U.S.)
Cowboys -- West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs
EDUCATION -- Secondary.
Cowboys -- Social life and customs
Education -- Social aspects
Manners and customs
Preparatory schools
Private schools
Ranch life
Ranchers
SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs
Subject West United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014012637
ISBN 9780826355447
0826355447