"Drawing on diaries, journals, letters, maps, and pictures, Dary tells the unvarnished truth about cowboys and analyzes the cultural force of the cowboy myth."—New York times Book Review
"Comprehensive and entertaining. . . . Full of wry anecdotes. . . . Dary understands the double legacy of the real West—hard fact and rich myth—and he savors it."—Time
"The definitive treatment of the cowboy. . . . Impressive in its thoroughness, scope, and depth. Anyone interested in the history, sociology, and economics of the West will find it valuable and fascinating."—San Diego Union
"Evocative reading. . . . A kind of source book for all the Westerns you’ve ever seen and are ever likely to see. . . . Between the lines, Cowboy Culture offers the germ of a story idea on almost every page."—Los Angeles Times
"Fun and enriching, packed with original research, it gives us a better understanding of that part of our past we have always worshiped. More that that, it gives us an idea of what we have lost."—Chicago Sun-Times
"An exuberant book, bubbling over with tales, stories, and recollections. If one were going to buy a single book on the cowboy and his life and business, this ought to be it."—South Dakota History
"Immensely readable. A classic is what I label it."—Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
