In the Days of the Vaqueros: America's First True Cowboys

Freedman, Russell

ISBN 10: 0395967880 / ISBN 13: 9780395967881

Published by Clarion Books, 2001

About this Item

First Edition. A fine book in a very good dust jacket. Jacket has i small teat on lower rear edge.

Seller Inventory # 060044

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Days of the Vaqueros: America's First True Cowboys
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395967880
• ISBN 13: 9780395967881
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A facinating account brings to life the vaqueros, who were Mexican ranch hands that developed the necessary skills for herding cattle and who instructed the inexperienced cowboys of the American West in their ways. 20,000 first printing.

About the Author

Russell Freedman received the Newbery Medal for LINCOLN: A PHOTOBIOGRAPHY. He is also the recipient of three Newbery Honors, the Sibert Medal, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and was selected to give the 2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. Mr. Freedman lives in New York City.