The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West

The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West
ISBN-10
0393292355
ISBN-13
9780393292350
Series
The Last Cowboys
Category
Social Science
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2018-05-15
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
John Branch

Description

"A can't-put-it-down modern Western." —Kirk Siegler, NPR Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The Last Cowboys is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branch’s epic tale of one American family struggling to hold on to the fading vestiges of the Old West. For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders—many call them the most successful rodeo family in history. Now they find themselves fighting to save their land and livelihood as the West is transformed by urbanization, battered by drought, and rearranged by public-land disputes. Could rodeo, of all things, be the answer? Written with great lyricism and filled with vivid scenes of heartache and broken bones, The Last Cowboys is a powerful testament to the grit and integrity that fuel the American Dream.

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