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).

DIVExplores the early genre in which the voice of the cowboy of the pampas was used in tales and poetry of various Latin American authors, which shows the relationship of literature to the state./div

AUDITORIO: Sociologos, antropologos, historiadores, estudiantes, lectores interesados en historia Argentina y en la historia social.SINOPSIS: El autor analiza en esta obra la trayectoria del hombre de las "pampas" -el gaucho- arquetipo social que dejo huellas imborrables a su paso, de hombre libre a peon de campo.