{"product_id":"the-american-cowboy-a-photographic-history-9781585744916","title":"The American Cowboy: A Photographic History","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his introduction to The American Cowboy  Bob Edgar speaks of a \"far-sighted fraternity\"-the photographers such as Belden  Huffman  Koerner  Smith  and Kendrick-who recorded images of cattle drives  frontier towns  roundup camps  cowboys on the range  chuck wagons  and horses and cattle. They probably knew that they were recording for posterity both a dramatic and emotive period in history and a changing country  in this case the cattlemens frontier  which existed from the end of the Civil War to the early part of the twentieth century. Through the work of a small number of photographers whose pictures have been selected from museums and state historical society collections  The American Cowboy puts together a stirring series of images that capture the movement of life on the range. That this way of life no longer exists lends additional poignancy. Now  as our frontier extends itself into a new millennium with disparate concerns  The American Cowboy offers an evocative message of \"a dream and a forgetting  a chapter forever closed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646762573877,"sku":"ByrdShop_1585744913","price":67.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781585744916.jpg?v=1781678173","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-american-cowboy-a-photographic-history-9781585744916","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}