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  • Comparing Cowboys and FrontiersThis bibliography comes mostly from my book, Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers, published in 1997 by the University of Oklahoma Press. I have included only references to publications that are explicitly comparative or that treat frontiers beyond a single national perspective. I have rearranged the entries into topical categories for easier access. The list at present concentrates on cowboys and ranch life in the Western Hemisphere, but I welcome citations to other themes and to frontiers elsewhere in the world. Please email additions, corrections, etc. with full citations in the format used below. I hope to begin annotating the entries, so please include annotations if you wish.
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    Geographical Categories

    1. General or World-wide Studies
    2. The Americas/ Borderlands
    3. Latin America, Spanish Origins
    4. American West (US)
    5. Canadian West
    6. Africa
    7. Australia, New Zealand
    8. Asia/Russia
    9. Other

      General or World-wide Studies

    1. Ahlborn, Richard E., ed. Man Made Mobile: Early Saddles of Western North America. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980.
    2. Chenevix Trench, Charles P. A History of Horsemanship. Garden City: Doubleday, 1970.
    3. Curtain, Philip D. Curtain, "Depth, Span, and Relevance," American Historical Review 89: 1 (February 1984): 1-9.
    4. Denoon, Donald. Settler Capitalism: The Dynamics of Dependent Development in the Southern Hemisphere. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
    5. Edwards, Elwyn Hartley. Horses: Their Role in the History of Man. London: Willow Books, 1987.
    6. Febvre, Lucien. "Frontière: The Word and the Concept" in Peter Burke, ed.. trans. K. Folca A New Kind of History from the Writings of Lucien Febvre. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973.
    7. Friend, John B. Cattle of the World. Poole, Eng.: Blandford Press, 1978.
    8. Hall, Thomas D. "The Effects of Incorporation into World-Systems on Ethnic Processes:  Lessons from the Ancient World for the Contemporary World," 1998, International Political Science Review 19:3(1998):251-267.
    9. _____. "World-Systems and Evolution:  An Appraisal", 1996, Journal of World-System Research . 2:5:1-109.
    10. _____. "Civilizational Change:  The Role of Nomads", 1991, Comparative Civilizations Review 24(Spring):34-57.
    11. _____. "Native Americans and Incorporation:  Patterns and Problems," 1987, American Indian Culture and Research Journal 11:2:1-30.
    12. _____. "Is Historical Sociology of Peripheral Regions Peripheral?," 1985.  California Sociologist 8:1-2(Sum.-Win.):281-304. [Reprinted pp. 349-372 in Studies of Development and Change in the Modern World, edited by Michael T. Martin and Terry R. Kandal, 1989.  Oxford University Press.]
    13. _____. "Peripheries, Regions of Refuge, and Nonstate Societies:  Toward A Theory of Reactive Social Change," 1983.  Social Science Quarterly 64:3(Sept.):582-597.
    14. _____. "Frontiers, and Ethnogenesis, and World-Systems: Rethinking the Theories," 1999.  Forthcoming in A World-Systems Reader Finding the Global in the Local, 1997.  Pp. 87-96 in Economic Analysis Beyond the Local System, edited by Richard Blanton, Peter Peregrine,  Deborah Winslow, and Thomas D. Hall.  Lanham, MD:  University Press of America.
    15. _____ and Christopher Chase-Dunn.  "Comparing World-Systems:  Concepts and Hypotheses," 1996.  Pp. 11-25 in PreColumbian World-Systems, edited by Peter Peregrine and Gary Feinman.  (Monographs in World Archaeology No. 26).  Madison, WI:  Prehistory Press.
    16. _____. "Rebirth of the Phoenix:  Destruction and Resurgence in American Indian History," 1989.  Humanity & Society 3: 4(November): 457-463
    17. _____. "Incorporation into the World-System and Precapitalist World-Systems," 1998.  Pp. 1434-1436, pp. 1019-1021 in Encyclopedia of Political Economy, edited by Phil O'Hara.  London: Routledge, forthcoming.
    18. _____. "The Historical Evolution of World-Systems." Protosoziologie,1995, 7:23-34, 301-303.
    19. _____. "Comparing World-Systems: Concepts and Working Hypotheses." Social Forces 71:4 (June 1993.):851-886.
    20. _____. "Civilizational Change: The Role of Nomads." Comparative Civilizations Review 24 (Spring 1991):34-57.
    21. _____. "Incorporation in the World-System: Toward A Critique." American Sociological Review 51:3 (June 1986.) :390-402. [Reprinted in Sociological Worlds: Comparative and Historical Readings on Society edited by Stephen K. Sanderson. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing (1995:64-74); and The Historical Evolution of the International Political Economy, edited by Christopher Chase-Dunn. Brookfield, VT: E. Elgar Pub., 1995, pp. 495-507).
    22. _____. "Lessons of Long-term Social Change for Comparative and Historical Study of Ethnicity." Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 1984, 5:121-144.
    23. _____" and Christopher Chase-Dunn. Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.
    24. Lawrence, Elizabeth Atwood. Hoofbeats and Society: Studies of Human-Horse Interactions. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
    25. McNeill, William. The Great Frontier: Freedom and Hierarchy in Modern Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.
    26. Miller, David Harry and Jerome Steffen, eds., The Frontier: Comparative Studies, Volume 1 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977).
    27. Nugent, Walter. "Frontiers and Empires in the Late Nineteenth Century." Western Historical Quarterly, 20: 4 (November 1989): 393-408.
    28. Reynolds, James. A World of Horses. New York: Creative Age Press, 1947.
    29. Rouse, John E. World Cattle. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.
    30. Savage, William W., and Stephen I. Thompson, eds., The Frontier: Comparative Studies, Volume 2 Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.
    31. Taylor, Louis. Harper's Encyclopedia for Horsemen: The Complete Book of the Horse. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.
    32. Towne, Charles W. and Edward N. Wentworth. Cattle and Men. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955.
    33. Vernam, Glenn R. Man on Horseback: The Story of the Mounted Man from the Scythians to the American Cowboy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964.
    34. Webb, Walter Prescott. The Great Frontier. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1951, 1979.
    35. Wolfskill, George and Stanley Palmer, eds., Essay on Frontiers in World History (College Station: Texas A&M University Press for the University of Texas at Arlington, 1983).
    36. Wyman, Walker D. and Clifton B. Kroeber, eds. The Frontier in Perspective. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965.

      The Americas/ Borderlands

    37. Bader, Thomas M. "A 'Second Field' for Historians of Latin America: An Application of the Theories of Bolton, Turner, and Webb." Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, 12 (1970): 47-54.
    38. Dinsmore, Wayne. The Horses of the Americas. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978.
    39. Donahue, John. Don Segundo Sombra y El Virginiano: Gaucho y cowboy. Madrid: Editorial Pliegos, 1988.
    40. Guichard du Plessis, Jean and Jo Mora. Cowboys et gauchos des Amériques. Paris: André Bonne, 1968.
    41. Guy, Donna J. and Thomas E. Sheridan, eds. Contested Ground: Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998.
    42. Haines, Francis D. Horses in America. New York: Crowell, 1971.
    43. Hall, Thomas D. Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989.
    44. _____. "Cowboys:  A Review Essay," 1993.  Journal of the Southwest 35:1(Spring):106-114.
    45. _____. "The Transformation of the Mexican Northwest into the American Southwest: Three Paths of Internal Development," 1988.  Pp. 21-42 in Rethinking the Nineteenth Century:  Contradictions and Movements, ed. Francisco O. Ramirez. Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press.
    46. _____. "Change and Assimilation: Native Americans under Spain and the United States." Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 13:2(Nov. 1985):173-177.
    47. _____. "La Plata and Las Provincias Internas: Comparisons, Conclusions, Conundra." in Contested Ground, ed. Donna Guy and Thomas Sheridan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998.
    48. _____. "Bound Labor:  The Spanish Borderlands," Vol. II, pp. 35-44; "The Reorganization of Empires:  Spanish," Vol. III, pp. 699-707; "Crises of Empire:  Spanish," Vol. III, pp. 720-727, 1993, in Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies. Editor in Chief, Jacob Ernest Cooke.  New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons.
    49. Hanke, Lewis, ed. Do the Americas Have a Common History?: A Critique of the Bolton Theory. New York: Knopf, 1964.
    50. Hennessy, Alistair. The Frontier in Latin American History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978.
    51. Hunt, Frazier. Horses and Heroes: The Story of the Horse in America for 450 Years. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1949.
    52. Hurtado, Albert L. "Parkmanizing the Spanish Borderlands: Bolton, Turner, and the Historians' World." Western Historical Quarterly, 26: 2 (Summer 1995): 149-68.
    53. Jones, Peter d'A. Since Columbus: Pluralism and Poverty in the History of the Americas. London: Heinemann, 1975.
    54. Jordan, Terry G. North American Cattle-ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion, and Differentiation. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.
    55. LeCompte, Mary Lou. "The Hispanic Influence on the History of Rodeo, 1823-1922." Journal of Sport History 12: 1 (Spring 1985): 21-38.
    56. _____ and William H. Beezley. "Any Sunday in April: The Rise of Sport in San Antonio and the Hispanic Borderlands." Journal of Sport History 13: 2 (Summer 1986): 128-46.
    57. Lewis, Archibald R. and Thomas F. McGann, eds. The New World Looks at Its History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966.
    58. Paullada, Stephen. Rawhide and Song: A Comparative Study of the Cattle Cultures of the Argentinian Pampa and North American Great Plains. New York: Vantage Press, 1963.
    59. Pike, Frederick B. The United States and Latin America: Myths and Stereotypes of Civilization and Nature. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.
    60. Slatta, Richard W. Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.
    61. _____. The Cowboy Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press, 1994. Paperback edition, W. W. Norton, 1996.
    62. _____. Cowboys of the Americas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. Paperback edition 1994.
    63. _____. "Social History in the Saddle: Trailing the History of the Cowboys of the Americas." Lubbock: Texas Tech University: International Center for Arid and Semiarid Land Studies, publication number 98-1. 1998 (30-page pamphlet).
    64. _____. "Spanish Colonial Military Strategy and Ideology." in Contested Ground: Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire, ed. Donna J. Guy and Thomas E. Sheridan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998, pp. 83-96.
    65. _____. "Historical Frontier Imagery in the Americas." in Changing Boundaries in the Americas, edited by Lawrence A. Herzog (LaJolla, CA: UCSD Center for US-Mexican Studies, 1992), pp. 25-46.
    66. _____. "Historical Frontier Imagery in the Americas." in Latin American Frontiers, Borders, and Hinterlands: Research Needs and Resources, edited by Paula Covington (Albuquerque: SALALM Secretariat, 1990): 5-25.
    67. _____. "Comparative Frontier Social Life: Western Saloons and Argentine Pulperías." Great Plains Quarterly, 7: 3 (Summer 1987): 155-165.
    68. _____."Llaneros and Gauchos: A Comparative View." Inter-American Review of Bibliography, 35: 4 (1985): 409-421.
    69. _____."Gauchos, llaneros y cowboys: Un aporte ala historia comparada." Boletín Americanista, 34 (1984): 193-208.
    70. _____."Cowboys, Gauchos, and Llaneros." Persimmon Hill, 12: 4 (1983): 8-23.
    71. _____."Cowboys and Gauchos." Américas, 33: 3 (Mar. 1981): 3-8.
    72. Smith, Dwight L., ed. The American and Canadian West: A Bibliography. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press, 1979.
    73. Solberg, Carl E. Immigration and Nationalism: Argentina and Chile, 1890-1914. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1970.
    74. _____. The Pampas and the Prairies: Agrarian Policy in Canada and Argentina, 1880-1930. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987.
    75. Spicer, Edward H. Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533-1960. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1962.
    76. Sullivan, Tom R. Cowboys and Caudillos: Frontier Ideology of the Americas. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1990.
    77. Tinker, Edward Larocque. Centaurs of Many Lands. London: J. A. Allen, 1964.
    78. _____. The Horsemen of the Americas and the Literature They Inspired. Rev. ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967.
    79. Weber, David J. "The Spanish Legacy in North America and the Historical Imagination." Western Historical Quarterly, 23: 1 (February 1992): 5-24.
    80. _____. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
    81. _____. "Turner, the Boltonians, and the Borderlands," American Historical Review 91: 1 (February 1986): 66-81.
    82. _____ and Jane M. Rausch, ed. Where Cultures Meet: Frontiers in Latin American History. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1994.
    83. Worster, Donald E. "The Significance of the Spanish Borderlands to the United States." Western Historical Quarterly 7: 1 (January 1976): 5-18.

      Latin America; Spanish Origins

    84. Baretta, Silvio Duncan and John Markoff. "Civilization and Barbarism: Cattle Frontiers in Latin America." Comparative Studies in Society and History 20 (October 1978): 587-620.
    85. Belaúnde, Victor Andrés. "The Frontier in Hispanic America." Rice Institute Pamphlet, 10: 4 (October 1923): 202-213.
    86. Bishko, Charles J. "The Peninsular Background of Latin American Cattle Ranching." Hispanic American Historical Review 32: 4 (November 1952): 491-515.
    87. Bolton, Herbert Eugene Bolton. "The Epic of Greater America." American Historical Review, 38: 3 (April 1933): 448-474.
    88. Bowman, Isaiah. The Pioneer Fringe. New York: American Geographical Society, 1931.
    89. Chasteen, John C. Heroes on Horseback: A Life and Times of the Last Gaucho Caudillos (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995).
    90. Clementi, Hebe. La frontera en América. 4 vols. Bueos Aires: Editorial Leviatan, 1986-88.
    91. _____. "National Identity and the Frontier." American Studies International, 19: 3-4 (1981): 36-44. Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame. The South American Tales and Sketches of Robert B. Cunninghame Graham. ed. John Walker. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978.
    92. _____. Rodeo: A Collection of Tales and Sketches. ed. A. F. Tschiffely. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1936.
    93. Griswold del Castillo, Richard. "New Perspectives on the Mexican and American Borderlands." Latin American Research Review, 19: 1 (1984): 199-209.
    94. Katzman, Martin T. "The Brazilian Frontier in Comparative Perspective." Comparative Studies in Society and History, 17: 3 (July 1975): 266-85.
    95. Lombardi, Mary. "The Frontier in Brazilian History: An Historiographical Essay." Pacific Historical Review, 44: 4 (November 1975): 437-57.
    96. Loy, Jane M. "Horsemen of the Tropics: A Comparative View of the Llaneros in the History of Venezuela and Colombia." Boletín Americanista 31 (1981): 159-71.
    97. Morrisey, Richard J. "The Shaping of Two Frontiers," Americas, 3: 1 (January 1951): 3-6, 41-42.
    98. Rausch, Jane M. "Frontiers in Crisis: the Breakdown of the Missions in Far Northern Mexico and New Granada, 1821-1849." Comparative Studies in Society and History, 29: 2 (1987): 340-359.
    99. Slatta, Richard W."Gaúcho and Gaucho: Comparative Socioeconomic Change in Rio Grande do Sul and Buenos Aires Province, 1869- 1920." Estudos Ibero-Americanos, 6: 2 (Dec. 1980): 191-202.
    100. _____, ed. Bandidos: The Varieties of Latin American Banditry. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1987.
    101. Urbaneja Achelpohl, Luis Manuel. El gaucho y el llanero. Caracas: Elite, 1926.

      American West (US)

    102. Adams, Ramon. Western Words: A Dictionary of the Range, Cowcamp, and Trail. Reprint. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1945, 1968
    103. Forbes, Jack D. "Frontiers in American History." Journal of the West, 1: 1 & 2 (1962): 63-74.
    104. _____. "Frontiers in American History and the Role of the Frontier Historian." Ethnohistory, 15 (Spring 1968): 203-35.
    105. Isern, Tom. Bibliography on the History of the North American Plains.
    106. Malone, Michael P. "Beyond the Last Frontier: Toward a New Approach to Western American History." Western Historical Quarterly, 20: 4 (November 1989): 409-28.
    107. Steffen, Jerome O. Comparative Frontiers: A Proposal for Studying the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.
    108. Usner, Daniel H., Jr. Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1983. Chapel Hill: Universityof North Carolina Press, 1992.

      Canadian West

    109. Breen, David H, ed. "The Turner Thesis and the Canadian West: A Closer Look at the Ranching Frontier" in Essays on Western History in Honour of Lewis Gwynne Thomas. ed. Lewis H. Thomas Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1976.
    110. Cross, Michael S., ed. The Turner Thesis and the Canadas: The Debate on the Impact of the Canadian Environment. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1970.
    111. Doyle, James. "American Literary Images of the Canadian Prairies, 1860-1910." Great Plains Quarterly, 6 (Winter 1983): 3-20.
    112. Sharp, Paul F. Whoop-Up Country: The Canadian-American West, 1865-1885. Helena: Historical Society of Montana, 1962.
    113. _____. "The American Farmer and the `Last Best West,'" Agricultural History 21: 2 (April 1947): 65-75.

      Africa

    114. Gump, James. "The Subjugation of the Zulus and Sioux: A Comparative Study." Western Historical Quarterly, 19: 1 (January 1988): 21-36.
    115. Lamar, Howard R. and Leonard Thompson, eds. The Frontier in History: North America and South Africa Compared. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.

      Australia/New Zealand

    116. National Gallery of Australia. New Worlds from Old: 19th Century Australian & American Landscapes National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the Wadsworth Atheneum, dist. by Thames and Hudson, 1998. A lavish catalogue which accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (Sept. 12-Jan.4, 1999) and Corcoran, Washington (Jan. 26-April 18, 1999).
    117. Platt, D. C. M. and Guido diTella, eds. Argentina, Australia and Canada: Studies in Comparative Development, 1870-1965 London: Macmillan, 1985.

      Asia/Russia

      (Thanks to Tom Barrett and William Reger IV for the following citations.)
    118. Barrett, Thomas M. "The Frontiers of the North Caucasus." Slavic Review, 54: 3 (Fall 1995): 578-601.
    119. _____. "Crossing Boundaries: The Trading Frontiers of the Terek Cossacks." in Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917. ed. Daniel R. Brower and Edward J. Lazzerini. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
    120. _____. "Wild East, Wild West: The Frontier in Russian and American Popular Culture." (in progress)
    121. Bassin, Mark. "Turner, Solov'ev, and the 'Frontier Hypothesis': The Nationalist Significance of Open Spaces" Journal of Modern History, 1993: 476-511.
    122. _____. "A Russian Missippi? A Political-Geographic Inquiry into theVision of Russia on the Pacific, 1840-1865." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley 1983.
    123. _____. "Inventing Siberia." American Historical Review, 1991.
    124. _____. "Expansion and colonialism on the Eastern Frontier." Journal of Historical Geography, 1988.
    125. _____. "Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East 1840-1865." (Cambridge, forthcoming).
    126. Collins, David. "Culture, Christianity and the Northern Peoples of Canada and Siberia." Religion, State & Society, 25, no. 4 (1997): 381-92.
    127. Forsyth, James. A History of the Peoples of Siberia.
    128. Gibson, James R. "Russian Expansion in Siberia and America: Critical Contrasts," in Frederick Starr, ed. Russia's American Colony (1987).
    129. _____. "Russian Expansion in Siberia and America," The Geographical Review, vol. 70, no.2, pp. 125-136.
    130. Khodarkovsky, Michael. Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600-1771. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.
    131. Lantzeff, George V. and Richard A. Pierce. Eastward to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier to 1750. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1973.
    132. Lincoln, W. Bruce. The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and theRussians. New York: Random House, 1994.
    133. Lobanov-Rostrovsky, A. "Russian expansion in the Far East in the light of the Turner hypothesis," in Walker D. Wyman and Clifton B. Kroeber, eds., The Frontier In Perspective. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965.
    134. Slezkine, Yuri. Arctic Mirrors. Russia and the Small Peoples of the North. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994.
    135. Treadgold, Donald W. "Russian Expansion in the Light of Turner's Study of the American Frontier." Agricultural History, 26: 4 (October 1952): 147-52.
    136. _____. The Great Siberian Migration: Government and Peasant in Resettlement from Emancipation to the First World War. (1957)
    137. Wieczynski, Joseph I. The Russian Frontier. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976.
    138. Wood, Alan. Russia's 'Wild East': Exile, Vagrancy and Crime innineteenth-century Siberia, in: Alan Wood (ed.) The History of Siberia From Russian Conquest to Revolution, London, New York 1991, pp. 117-139.

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