Cowboy Culture: Capturing the Spirit of the Old West in the Sierra Nevada Metal and Tin Mollie Burkhart

Mollie Burkhart

and the construction of masculinity

from the sheep to the finished rug

not ounces: the scores of Navajo women and children he plucked out of slavery in 1864

mass murder or suicide

Cowboy Culture: Capturing the Spirit of the Old West in the Sierra Nevada Metal and Tin Mollie BurkhartA Photographic Look at the Old West That Is Alive and Well in California It was a thrilling time, when wagon trains and stagecoaches raced to the California goldfields on the trail where the dust and campfire smoke met. In the shadow of the towering Sierra Nevada, the real Wild West was born. And it still lives today, in the extraordinary people who pack mule strings into the mountains, race over mountain passes on horseback while recreating the Pony