Kill the Cowboy
A Battle of Mythology in the New West
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Word Count
54,250 words, Guess
Page Count
217 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100803289855
- ISBN-139780803289857
- Goodreads1172268
- Library of Congress Control Number00066632
- OCLC Control Number45446278
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780803289857
- Open LibraryOL7906228M
Classifications
- LCCGF504.W35R87 2001
- LCCGF 504 W35 R87 2001
- DDC333.74/0978
and 1 more
- LCCGF504.W35 R87 1993
Description
The myth of the cowboy resonates with us all - it represents physical freedom and spiritual solitude, individualism, and a closeness to nature in all its rugged, soaring magnificence. But the cowboy's intimacy with animals rests on his domination of them. His cattle are protected so that they can be killed. Wild animals - coyotes, bears, eagles - are competition and must be destroyed. Land is being overgrazed and in some places permanently damaged. "Some would say that we need to kill the myth of the cowboy," Russell writes. "We need new images and new role models - heroines as well as heroes, Indians as well as cavalry, ecologists as well as individualists." In Kill the Cowboy she offers a new perspective on this cultural icon, urging all of us, cowboys included, to find "that inner part of us which resonates with nature and corresponds to what is wild."
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