Cover of Queer Cowboys

Queer Cowboys

by Chris Packard

2006 160 pages eng

Why do the earliest representations of cowboy-figures symbolizing the highest ideals of manhood in American culture exclude male-female desire while promoting homosocial and homoerotic bonds? Evidence from the best-known Western writers and artists of the post-Civil War period - Owen Wister, Mark Tw…

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