Queer Cowboys

And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

By: C. Packard

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Hardcover | 1 April 2005 | Edition Number 1

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Was the American Cowboy gay? Judging from the earliest representations of cowboys and other frontier figures in popular literature--who typically preferred a "buddy" over a wife--the answer seems to be yes. Evidence from books by nineteenth-century Western writers (from legends such as James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and Owen Wister, to more obscure novelists and diarists) shows how same-sex intimacy and homoerotic admiration were key aspects of Westerns well before the word "homosexual" and its synonyms were invented. American writers celebrated erotic frontier friendships as alternatives to the lawless violence that characterized stories about the early settlers' fabled lives. These males-only clubs of journalists, cowboys, miners, Indians, and "vaqueros" defined themselves by excluding femininity and the cloying ills of domesticity, while embracing what Roosevelt called "strenuous living" with other bachelors in the relative"purity" of wilderness conditions. "Queer Cowboys" recovers this forgotten culture of exclusively masculine, sometimes erotic, and often intimate camaraderie in fiction, photographs, illustrations, song lyrics, historicalephemera, and theatrical performances.

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A searching and original study. Chris Packard has managed to tease out evidence of same-sex attraction in places where one would not have expected to find it. - Larry McMurtry, co-writer of the award-winning screenplay for Brokeback Mountain and author of Lonesome Dove

Thanks, Chris Packard, for searching out eros between men in the texts that created the iconic image of the Western American hero. So 'Come back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!' and see what this scholar has found. - Jonathan Ned Katz, author, Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality

Thought provoking, and the author has courage.....worth reading. - Amazon customer review

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Introduction
Decoding the Encrypted Erotics of Nineteenth-Century Westerns
Intersections of Race and Homosexuality in the Wilderness
Scandal in the Boom Towns: Print Cultures and Sexual Prohibitions
Cowboy Poses: The Queer Eye in Early Photographs
Singing from the Saddle: The ""Wild"" West Goes Vaudeville
Conclusion
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