Literature of the American Cowboy

Literature of the American Cowboy Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• The Cowboy Hero: An American Myth Examined
• Criticism: Cowboy Fiction
  • The Literature Before 1900
  • The Cowboy in Short Fiction
  • The Novel of the Cowboy
• Criticism: Cowboy Poetry And Songs
  • The Dying Cowboy Song
  • Preparing the Audience, Informing the Performers: John A. Lomax and Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
  • Cowboy Poetry Then and Now: An Overview
  • Nature and Cowboy Poetry
• Further Reading