| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.3

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Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross Border Perspectives on Ranching History. Edited by Simon Evans, Sarah Carter, and Bill Yeo. (Calgary: University of Calgary Press; Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2000. 248 pp. $24.95 paper.)

Although scholarly interest in the range cattle industry has lagged in recent years, the subject remains fertile territory for inquiry. Students of both cattle ranching and comparative history will find this collection of papers, presented at the 1997 Canadian Cowboy Conference held at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, particularly thought provoking. Many of the volume's nearly dozen essayists challenge various aspects of the thesis advanced by Canadian scholar David H. Breen in The Canadian Prairie West and the Ranching Frontier, 1874-1924 (Toronto, 1983), that ranching in Canada and the United States developed very differently due to widely varying social, political, and economic conditions. Geographer Terry Jordan-Bychkov mounts one of the broadest and most effective rebuttals. Using arguments developed in his own North American Cattle Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion and Differentiation (Albuquerque, 1993), Jordan proposes that complex geographic and environmental conditions produced an essentially homogeneous ranching culture on the plains on both sides of the U. S.-Canadian border. . . .

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