Although as much romanticized as the American cowboy, the Argentine gaucho lived a persecuted, marginal existence, beleaguered by mandatory passports, vagrancy laws, and forced military service. The story of this nineteenth-century migratory ranch hand is told in vivid detail by Richard W. Slatta, a professor of history at North Carolina State University at Raleigh and the author of Cowboys of the Americas (1990).

An account of a little girl's idyllic summer at her grandparents' ranch on the pampas of Argentina.

Originally published in 1910, this stirring depiction of shtetl life in Argentina is once again available in paperback.