@article{slatta_2020, title={Outriders: Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West}, volume={40}, ISSN={["2333-5092"]}, DOI={10.1353/gpq.2020.0042}, abstractNote={Reviewed by: Outriders: Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West by Rebecca Scofield Richard W. Slatta Outriders: Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West. By Rebecca Scofield. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. ix + 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, index, $27.95 paper. Rebecca Scofield, assistant professor of American history at the University of Idaho, has written an engaging, insightful, wonderfully researched social and cultural study of forgotten or ignored participants in United States rodeo. This short study deftly combines a solid base of foundational historiography, archival and institutional documents, and gender and cultural theory, all reflecting well on the Idaho-born author's training at Willamette and Harvard University. Four topical chapters each focus on a different group of rodeo "outriders." Scofield examines female bronc riders, convict cowboys, all-Black western performers, and gay rodeoers to illustrate how "people who were cast out of popular western mythology and often marginalized from mainstream American life found belonging and meaning at the rodeo, demanding their right to grapple with the symbol of the cowboy in their own lives" (3). Several chapters include mini–case studies that add detail and continuity. Norwegian-born Anna Mathilda Winger, who emigrated to the US at age fourteen, became a rodeo star under the name Tillie Baldwin. For African American rodeo, the focus is on Boley, Oklahoma, and Oakland, California. The chapter on prison rodeo clearly shows that "the Texas Prison Rodeo staged the state's exploitative and violent labor system as the path to social redemption" (64). She well contextualizes gay rodeo with additional information on other gay subcultures, such as leathermen and bears. At several points, Scofield challenges (successfully in my view) existing cultural assumptions. [End Page 247] Her analysis shows how fringe groups, excluded from the mainstream myths of a white heterosexual male West, creatively embraced rodeo to push their way into history and society. "For many people, the love of stock, the thrill of competition, and the sacredness of camaraderie were foundational to their sense of self" (5). Scofield also highlights conflicts arising within each social group as they labored to claim their piece of western life and mythology. This is a superb book that illuminates major issues of Great Plains and western history far beyond the rodeo arena. For example, the tension between serious, traditional rodeo events and camp events, such as steer decorating, goat dressing, and wild drag racing, mirrors larger issues in the gay community. Female riders faced the dilemma of remaining feminine while engaging in traditionally masculine contests. Readers interested in issues of gender, ethnicity, popular culture, and western mythology will all learn something of value in this excellent book, the author's first. [End Page 248] Richard W. Slatta Professor Emeritus of History North Carolina State University Copyright © 2020 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln}, number={3}, journal={GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY}, author={Slatta, Richard W.}, year={2020}, pages={247–248} }
 @article{slatta_2019, title={Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon}, volume={122}, ISSN={["0038-478X"]}, DOI={10.1353/swh.2019.0035}, abstractNote={Reviewed by: Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon by Tim Lehman Richard W. Slatta Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon. By Tim Lehman. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. 172. Illustrations, notes, index.) This concise synthesis of life on the nineteenth-century trail drives north from Texas is ideal for the general reader as well as students in Texas or western American history classes. Tim Lehman, professor of history [End Page 468] at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, deftly brings the long drives to life, thanks to copious primary source quotations from nineteenth-century reminiscences, diaries, publications, and newspaper accounts. The readable and highly interpretive text emphasizes social realities of trail driving over the romanticism that colors much of the extant cowboy literature. However, it also clearly explains how and why the mythical cowboy arose after the great drives ended. As part of the “How Things Worked” series from Johns Hopkins University Press, the book puts a premium on clarity, concision, and engaging detail. While meant for the general reader, Up the Trail includes incidents and interpretive commentary that will interest specialists as well: we get a cameo of Gail Borden Jr., who adapted his process for dehydrating a beef-flour mixture (a market failure) to condensing milk in a can; learn about Englishman Tom Candy Ponting’s 1853 cattle drive from Texas to Chicago, and also about Joseph W. McCoy, who gets ample coverage, appropriately enough, for making Abilene, Kansas, an inviting destination for Texas cattle. This study is especially noteworthy for the raw social history that Lehman brings to life. He illustrates the prevalence of mavericking and outright cattle theft in building herds. Frontier “swindlers and confidence men” (34) cheated cattlemen out of money. It was also commonplace for drovers to kill newborn calves on the trail because they could not keep up with the herd. As Kansas farmers began protecting their crops with barbed wire, conflict arose between proponents of the cow and the plow. Ticks on Longhorns carried “Texas fever,” deadly to cattle on the trail routes. Dangerous river crossings, billowing clouds of dust, meager, monotonous rations, and danger of illness or injury meant that many drovers only made the great trek north from Texas once. Kansas cow towns excelled at creating ways to separate cowboys from their cash, notably through gambling and prostitution, meanwhile trying to cover such activities with a veneer of respectability. Lehman also debunks the myth of widespread gun-toting in the West. Recognizing that guns and liquor did not mix, most cow towns confiscated cowboy firearms at the city limits. Fearing shooting accidents, stampedes, or gratuitous violence, many trail bosses kept cowboy firearms in a wagon. Coincidentally, pressures to disarm cowboys arose at the same time that dime novelists and other mythmakers projected the image of wild cowboys armed to the teeth. This short but authoritative study concludes with ample notes, an index, and several pages of excellent suggestions for further reading. Lehman makes effective use of the ample sources on Texas history and the cattle drives. While the era of great drives lasted only a few years, it permanently established the cowboy as an American cultural icon. Those who created [End Page 469] the cowboy myths get their due—Buffalo Bill, Buck Taylor, Owen Wister, Theodore Roosevelt, and others—because “[i]t turned out that there was more profit in cowboy stories than in cowboy labor” (122). Up the Trail does an admirable job of taking readers behind the tall tales to see the real lives of real cowboys on the great cattle drives as well as showing their transition from history to mythology. Richard W. Slatta North Carolina State University Copyright © 2019 The Texas State Historical Association}, number={4}, journal={SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY}, author={Slatta, Richard W.}, year={2019}, month={Apr}, pages={468–470} }
 @article{slatta_2014, title={In the Shadow of Billy the Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War}, volume={83}, ISSN={["0030-8684"]}, DOI={10.1525/phr.2014.83.4.697}, abstractNote={Book Review| November 01 2014 Book Review: Chamberlain, In the Shadow of Billy the Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War, by Richard W. Slatta In the Shadow of Billy the Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War. By Kathleen P. Chamberlain. (, University of New Mexico Press, 2013. xiv + 297 pp. $27.95 paper) Richard W. Slatta Richard W. Slatta North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2014) 83 (4): 697–698. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2014.83.4.697 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Richard W. Slatta; Book Review: Chamberlain, In the Shadow of Billy the Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War, by Richard W. Slatta. Pacific Historical Review 1 November 2014; 83 (4): 697–698. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2014.83.4.697 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2014 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.}, number={4}, journal={PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW}, author={Slatta, Richard W.}, year={2014}, month={Nov}, pages={697–698} }
 @article{slatta_haywood_2005, title={Enhancing Latin American history teaching and research with computers}, volume={23}, ISSN={["1552-8286"]}, DOI={10.1177/0894439304273263}, abstractNote={Historians specializing in Latin America use a wide range of electronic tools in their research, publication, and teaching. Quality information for the region is now available in a wide variety of formats, including databases, spreadsheets, CD-ROMs, concept maps, and web sites, created by historians and librarians. Thanks to electronic finding aides, it is now quicker and more convenient to research and to teach students about Latin America’s past. In addition, teachers can bring more of the richness and variety of Latin American culture to their students by using new technologies.}, number={2}, journal={SOCIAL SCIENCE COMPUTER REVIEW}, author={Slatta, RW and Haywood, EK}, year={2005}, pages={152–166} }
 @book{lee_greene_wellman_al._2004, title={Teaching and learning through inquiry: A guidebook for institutions and instructors}, publisher={Sterling, Va.: Stylus Pub.}, author={Lee, V. S. and Greene, D. B. and Wellman, D. J. and al.}, year={2004} }
 @article{slatta_2002, title={Bandits, peasant and politics: The case of "La Violencia" in Colombia}, volume={58}, ISSN={["0003-1615"]}, DOI={10.1353/tam.2002.0027}, abstractNote={Bandits, Peasants, and Politics: The Case of “La Violencia” in Colombia. By Gonzalo Sánchez and Donny Meertens. Translated by Alan Hynds. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 229. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. References. Index. 19.95 paper. - Volume 58 Issue 3}, number={3}, journal={AMERICAS}, author={Slatta, RW}, year={2002}, month={Jan}, pages={500–501} }
 @article{slatta_2002, title={Crime and punishment in Latin America: Law and society since late colonial times}, volume={82}, ISSN={["0018-2168"]}, DOI={10.1215/00182168-82-4-804}, abstractNote={The study of criminality and law in Latin America has come a long way since the days of historia del derecho books that represented official laws and constitutions as social reality. This fine collection of 15 essays plus a preface well illustrates the vigor and variety of newer work in the field. It took me seven years, beginning in 1980, to gather and publish a dozen essays on Bandidos: The Varieties of Latin American Banditry. Happily, the study of “crime and punishment” now attracts many scholars, a very welcome change in the profession. A plurality of the authors comes from the profession’s junior ranks, so we get to see some of the latest in ideas, methods, and sources.Following a brief but helpful preface from Gil Joseph, the book’s introduction, by Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo D. Salvatore, surveys the development of the literature on law, society, and criminality. After a succinct but insightful look at prior historiography, the essay quickly summarizes the themes of the book’s three sections. The introduction concludes with an intelligent “agenda for further research.” According to Aguirre and Salvatore, the new studies in this volume “treat law as an ambiguous, malleable, and slippery arena of struggle the limits and parameters of which are themselves the result of contention and negotiation. According to these new perspectives law produces and reformulates culture (systems of identity, practices, and meaning), and it shapes and is shaped by larger processes of political, social, economic, and cultural change” (pp. 1–2).Space does not permit commentary on all essays. The four essays of part 1 focus on “Legal Mediations: State, Society, and the Conflictive Nature of Law and Justice.” Charles F. Walker examines “Crime in the Time of the Great Fear: Indians and the State in the Peruvian Southern Andes, 1780–1820.” This essay reprises some material from his 1999 book, Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780–1840. He concludes that during the late colonial era, “the courts played an important role in Indians’ defense of autonomy and economic resources and ultimately in their challenge to Spanish domination” (p. 51).Arlene J. Díaz examines “Women, Order, and Progress in Guzmán Blanco’s Venezuela, 1870–1888.” She presents the revival of marianismo as part of the government’s desire to produce “virtuous republican mothers” (p. 73). Her sources often cite references to similar processes elsewhere in Latin America, a welcome comparative perspective. She concludes, “only those women who followed the elite ideal of womanhood—those who proved without reasonable doubt to be virtuous and chaste—received favorable court rulings” (p. 72). Essays by Juan Manuel R.Palacio on rural Buenos Aires province, 1900– 40, and by Luis A. González on Brazilian sugarcane workers, 1930–50, round out this section.Part 2 explores “The Social and Cultural Construction of Crime.” Cristina Rivera-Garza offers an incisive look at “The Criminalization of the Syphilitic Body: Prostitutes, Health Crimes, and Society in Mexico City, 1867–1930.” She illustrates how modern science and medicine in the postrevolutionary era succeeded in attacking prostitution under the guise of safeguarding the public from the threat of syphilis. This essay is one of several to explore important gender issues of law and criminality. Kris Ruggiero’s “Passion, Perversity, and the Pace of Justice in Argentina at the Turn of the Last Century” shows how changing legal classifications of human emotions intertwined with the definition of Argentine identify. She well demonstrates the fundamental tension between a desire for rationality and a recognition and appreciation of the passions as essential to life.“Cuidado con los Rateros: The Making of Criminals in Modern Mexico City,” by Pablo Piccato offers an excellent example of the widespread phenomenon of the social construction of crime. Rateros perpetrated a variety of petty street crimes. However, these urban robbers “never became a variation of rural social bandits. The rich were not necessarily their targets, and they left no evidence of any intention to redistribute their profits” (p. 258). “Healing and Mischief: Witchcraft in Brazilian Law and Literature, 1890–1922,” by Dain Borges closes this section.The book’s final section focuses on “Contested Meanings of Punishment.” Diana Paton analyzes the racist nature of the law in her essay, “The Penalties of Freedom: Punishment in Post-emancipation Jamaica.” “Death and Liberalism: Capital Punishment after the Fall of Rosas,” by Ricardo D. Salvatore, reinforces the conclusion drawn earlier by many other scholars. Much prior historiography has “overestimated the changes between the Rosas and the subsequent liberal period” (p. 310). Carlos Aguirre probes incarceration in Lima from 1890 to 1930. In two stimulating essays, Donna J. Guy and Lila M. Caimari investigate different aspects of women in the judicial and penal systems of Argentina.Douglas Hay’s welcome afterward on “Law and Society in Comparative Perspective” completes the collection. He suggests many avenues for further comparative research, always a good prescription to reinvigorate any field. Overall, these essays remind us that a healthy dose of sweat equity in the archives bolstered by reading beyond one’s own narrow focus produce felicitous outcomes.}, number={4}, journal={HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW}, author={Slatta, RW}, year={2002}, month={Nov}, pages={804–805} }
 @article{slatta_2000, title={The West at the millennium}, volume={8}, number={1}, journal={Cowboys & Indians}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={2000}, month={Mar}, pages={60–62} }
 @misc{slatta_2000, title={The rise of capitalism on the pampas: The estancias of Buenos Aires, 1785-1870}, volume={60}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Economic History}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={2000}, month={Mar}, pages={291–292} }
 @misc{slatta_1999, title={Conquerors: The roots of new world horsemanship, by Deb Bennett}, volume={6}, number={6}, journal={Cowboys & Indians}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={1999}, month={Jan}, pages={192} }
 @article{slatta_1999, title={Freeware for writers}, number={1999 Aug.}, journal={Roundup Magazine}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={1999}, month={Aug}, pages={22,-33} }
 @misc{slatta_1999, title={Ghost dancing: Sacred medicine and the art of J. D. Challenger, by Edwin Daniels}, volume={7}, number={2}, journal={Cowboys & Indians}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={1999}, month={May}, pages={182} }
 @misc{slatta_1999, title={Legends of our times: Native cowboy life}, volume={68}, number={4}, journal={Pacific Historical Review}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={1999}, month={Nov}, pages={692–693} }
 @article{slatta_1999, title={Riding the cyber range}, volume={6}, number={4}, journal={Roundup Magazine}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={1999}, month={Apr}, pages={36–37} }
 @article{slatta_1999, title={Romance and hardship: C. J. Belden: Wyoming's celebrated cowboy photographer}, volume={6}, number={6}, journal={Cowboys & Indians}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={1999}, month={Jan}, pages={132–137178189} }
 @article{slatta_1999, title={Simple pleasures of the old West}, volume={7}, number={1}, journal={Cowboys & Indians}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={1999}, month={Mar}, pages={110–115} }
 @misc{slatta_1999, title={The new encyclopedia of the American West, edited by Howard Lamar}, volume={7}, number={2}, journal={Cowboys & Indians}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={1999}, month={May}, pages={182} }
 @misc{slatta_1999, title={The real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the creation of the American West, by Michael Wallis}, volume={7}, number={4}, journal={Cowboys & Indians}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={1999}, month={Sep}, pages={190} }
 @misc{slatta_1999, title={Untitled}, volume={85}, number={4}, journal={Journal of American History (Bloomington, Ind.)}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={1999}, month={Mar}, pages={1697} }
 @misc{slatta_1998, title={Bit and spur makers in the Vaquero tradition: A historical perspective}, volume={5}, number={6}, journal={Cowboys & Indians}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={1998}, month={Jan}, pages={158,-170172} }
 @article{slatta_1998, title={The Quest of Adam Jahiel}, volume={6}, number={1}, journal={Cowboys & Indians}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={1998}, month={Mar}, pages={47–55} }
 @misc{slatta_1997, title={Cowboys and Kansas: Stories from the tallgrass prairie}, volume={36}, number={2}, journal={Journal of the West}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={1997}, pages={96} }
 @article{slatta_1997, title={South America's cowboys}, volume={5}, number={2}, journal={Cowboys & Indians}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, year={1997}, pages={60–65} }
 @article{slatta, title={"Just a Continual Rumble and Roar": A Texas cowboy remembers an 1884 cattle drive}, volume={114}, number={2}, journal={Southwestern Historical Quarterly}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={172–178} }
 @misc{slatta, title={"That Fiend in Hell": Soapy Smith in legend}, volume={82}, number={4}, journal={Pacific Historical Review}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={616–617} }
 @article{slatta, title={A century of cowboy history}, volume={27}, number={3}, journal={Persimmon Hill}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={28–29} }
 @article{slatta_martin, title={America's first cowboys}, volume={25}, number={1}, journal={Persimmon Hill}, author={Slatta, R. W. and Martin, J. G.}, pages={15–18} }
 @book{richard w. slatta, title={Bandidos the varieties of Latin American banditry}, publisher={New York: Greenwood Press}, author={Richard W. Slatta} }
 @misc{slatta, title={Campanha gaucha: A Brazilian ranching system, 1850-1920}, volume={74}, number={1}, journal={Agricultural History}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={92–93} }
 @book{slatta, title={Comparing cowboys and frontiers}, ISBN={0806129719}, publisher={Norman: University of Oklahoma Press}, author={Slatta, R. W.} }
 @misc{slatta, title={Cow boys and cattle men: Class and masculinities on the Texas frontier, 1865-1900.}, volume={116}, number={3}, journal={American Historical Review}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={817–818} }
 @book{slatta, title={Cowboy the illustrated history}, publisher={New York: Sterling Pub.}, author={Slatta, Richard W.} }
 @article{slatta, title={Cowboys}, volume={1}, journal={Encyclopedia of rural America: The land and people}, publisher={Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={153–156} }
 @book{slatta, title={Cowboys of the Americas}, publisher={New Haven: Yale University Press}, author={Slatta, Richard W.} }
 @misc{slatta, title={Drummond - Ranch life in the West}, volume={55}, number={3}, journal={Montana (Helena, Mont. : 1955)}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={82–84} }
 @article{slatta, title={E. E. Smith, cowboy photographer}, volume={5}, number={6}, journal={Cowboys & Indians}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={76–83} }
 @misc{slatta, title={Flint Hills cowboys: Tales of the tallgrass prairie.}, volume={27}, number={2}, journal={Great Plains Quarterly}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={155} }
 @inbook{slatta, title={Foreword}, booktitle={The cowboy: An unconventional history of civilization on the old-time cattle range}, publisher={Norman: University of Oklahoma Press}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, editor={Rollins, P. A.Editor} }
 @book{slatta, title={Gauchos and the vanishing frontier}, publisher={Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press}, author={Slatta, Richard W.} }
 @misc{slatta, title={Hell on the range: A story of honor, conscience, and the American West}, volume={116}, number={3}, journal={American Historical Review}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={817–818} }
 @misc{slatta, title={I see by your outfit: Historic cowboy gear of the northern Plains. T. Lindmier, S. Mount}, volume={17}, number={1}, journal={Great Plains Quarterly}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={76–77} }
 @article{slatta, title={Indians of the Wild West shows}, volume={6}, number={1}, journal={Cowboys & Indians}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={80–85} }
 @misc{slatta, title={John ringo, king of the cowboys his life and times from the Hoo Doo war to Tombstone}, volume={58}, number={4}, journal={Montana (Helena, Mont. : 1955)}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={76–77} }
 @article{slatta_auld_melrose, title={Kona}, volume={54}, number={2}, journal={Montana (Helena, Mont. : 1955)}, author={Slatta, R. W. and Auld, K. and Melrose, M.}, pages={19-} }
 @misc{slatta, title={Loyal to the land - The legendary Parker Ranch, 750-1950}, volume={54}, number={2}, journal={Montana (Helena, Mont. : 1955)}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={80–81} }
 @misc{slatta, title={Montana hometown rodeo}, volume={55}, number={3}, journal={Montana (Helena, Mont. : 1955)}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={82–84} }
 @article{slatta, title={Pioneers of the open range}, volume={27}, number={4}, journal={Persimmon Hill}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={60–61} }
 @misc{slatta, title={Riding for the brand: 150 years of Cowden ranching, being an account of the adventures and growth in Texas and New Mexico of the Cowden land and Cattle company}, volume={82}, number={4}, journal={New Mexico Historical Review}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={567–568} }
 @misc{slatta, title={Rodeo cowboys in the North American imagination}, volume={50}, number={2}, journal={Montana (Helena, Mont. : 1955)}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={84–85} }
 @book{slatta_de grummond, title={Simon Bolivar's quest for glory (1st ed.)}, ISBN={1585442399}, publisher={College Station: Texas A&M University Press}, author={Slatta, R. W. and De Grummond, J. L.} }
 @book{slatta, title={Social history in the saddle: Trailing the history of the cowboys of the Americas}, volume={98-1}, publisher={Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University, International Center for Arid and Semiarid Land Studies}, author={Slatta, R. W.} }
 @inbook{slatta, title={Spanish colonial military strategy and ideology}, booktitle={Contested ground: Comparative frontiers on the northern and southern edges of the Spanish Empire}, publisher={Tucson: University of Arizona Press}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, editor={D. J. Guy, T. E. SheridanEditor}, pages={83–96} }
 @misc{slatta, title={Starting over: Community building on the eastern Oregon Frontier}, volume={107}, number={2}, journal={Oregon Historical Quarterly}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={305–306} }
 @article{slatta, title={Taking our myths seriously (Editorial)}, volume={40}, number={3}, journal={Journal of the West}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={3–5} }
 @article{slatta, title={Teaching the West: Introduction}, volume={46}, number={2}, journal={Journal of the West}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={11–13} }
 @article{slatta, title={The West faces the millennium}, volume={27}, number={4}, journal={Persimmon Hill}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={5–6} }
 @book{slatta., title={The cowboy encyclopedia}, publisher={Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, Inc.}, author={Slatta., Richard W.} }
 @misc{slatta, title={The cowboy legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American frontier}, volume={90}, number={3}, journal={Agricultural History}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={419–420} }
 @misc{slatta, title={The drifting cowboy. W. James}, volume={17}, number={1}, journal={Great Plains Quarterly}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={76–77} }
 @book{slatta, title={The mythical West: An encyclopedia of legend, lore, and popular culture}, ISBN={1576071510}, publisher={Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO}, author={Slatta, R. W.} }
 @article{slatta, title={The whys and wherefores of comparative frontier history: Introduction}, volume={42}, number={1}, journal={Journal of the West}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={8–13} }
 @misc{slatta, title={Tom Horn in Life and Legend}, volume={46}, number={2}, journal={Western Historical Quarterly}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={257–257} }
 @article{slatta_atkinson, title={Using rimary sources online - An inquiry-guided learning approach to teaching Western history}, volume={46}, number={2}, journal={Journal of the West}, author={Slatta, R. W. and Atkinson, M. P.}, pages={14–21} }
 @misc{slatta, title={Vaqueros, cowboys, and buckaroos}, volume={52}, number={1}, journal={Montana (Helena, Mont. : 1955)}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={82} }
 @misc{slatta, title={West-fever, by Brian W. Dippie}, number={1999 Spring}, journal={Journal of Arizona History}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={107–108} }
 @misc{slatta, title={Wild West shows and the images of American Indians, 1883-1933}, volume={48}, number={2}, journal={Montana (Helena, Mont. : 1955)}, author={Slatta, R. W.}, pages={82–83} }