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Prep School Cowboys : Ranch Schools in the American West.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (258 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826355447
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prep School CowboysDDC classification:
  • 373.22/20978
LOC classification:
  • LC58.5.W47 B56 2015
Online resources:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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