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Shooting cowboys : photographing Canadian cowboy culture, 1875-1965

Shooting cowboys : photographing Canadian cowboy culture, 1875-1965

Book 1997

Shooting Cowboys traces the transformation of the cowboy image in Canada over a ninety-year period. An extensive selection of historical photographs from the Canadian west examines the photographer's role in creating and influencing the cultural myth of the cowboy. Brock Silversides has assembled some of the most fascinating and surprising images. The text and photographs reveal how and why the archetypical cowboy images evolved, and how these im...