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Romancing the Dude Ranch, 1926–1947

2012/12/01 by PhD candidate in the Program in Modern Thought and Literature Adrienne Rose Johnson · 1 citation
Business, Management and Accounting · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #American Environmental and Regional History #American History and Culture #Archaeology and Natural History

paper · doi:10.2307/westhistquar.43.4.0437

openalex publication_date 2012/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/10/28 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

Early twentieth-century dude ranches provided upper-class eastern men and women beset by social change with the living memorialization of an imagined past—a frontier fantasy of patriarchal family life. This strategically anachronistic landscape emboldened dudes to transgress the restraints of gender and class, most noticeably through the dudine-wrangler romance.

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