Prep School Cowboys : Ranch Schools in the American West.
Bingmann, Melissa.
Prep School Cowboys : Ranch Schools in the American West. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (258 pages)
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.
"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.
9780826355447
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.
West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
LC58.5.W47 B56 2015
373.22/20978
Prep School Cowboys : Ranch Schools in the American West. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (258 pages)
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.
"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.
9780826355447
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.
West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
LC58.5.W47 B56 2015
373.22/20978