TY - BOOK AU - Bingmann,Melissa TI - Prep School Cowboys: Ranch Schools in the American West SN - 9780826355447 AV - LC58.5.W47 B56 2015 U1 - 373.22/20978 PY - 2015/// CY - Albuquerque PB - University of New Mexico Press KW - Preparatory schools -- West (U.S.) -- History KW - Private schools -- West (U.S.) -- History KW - Education -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.) -- History KW - Ranch life -- West (U.S.) KW - Ranchers -- West (U.S.) KW - Cowboys -- West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs KW - West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1865283 ER -