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Prep School Cowboys: Ranch Schools in the American West
Contributor(s): Bingmann, Melissa (Author)

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 ISBN: 0826355439     ISBN-13: 9780826355430
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
OUR PRICE: $47.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
- Education | Secondary
- History | Social History
Dewey: 373.222
LCCN: 2014012637
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" L (1.15 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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Ranch schools in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Wyoming in the 1920s and 1930s portrayed that the West embodied the moral attributes believed to be lacking in urban America. Advocates of character education saw the courage and self-reliance of the Old West as the qualities necessary to preserve the nation through the next generation. Bingmann uses ranch schools, designed to counteract the problems of inherited wealth, as a lens through which to examine citizenship, class, gender, and region during this era while illustrating that these schools, in transmitting such values to American youth, created a network of elite private schools that gave pampered boys from the urban centers of the Atlantic Seaboard and Great Lakes region the opportunity to grow into gentlemen cowboys ready to take the reins of power in family businesses and government.

Contributor Bio(s): Bingmann, Melissa: -

Melissa Bingmann is an assistant professor of history at West Virginia University.
 
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