Oak Knoll

Highly illustrated with full page plates. Footnotes. Extensive index whose chapters are: The earth and its inhabitants: The great empty space. The local natives. The cattle: The horse. Two words about the word "bagual". The bovine. Forced diffusion of cattle in the La Plata region. Introduction of cattle in southern Brazil. The Gois brothers. The Spanish in the San Pablo region. Asunción, a cattle planter. Introduction and dispersal of cattle in the Antigua Banda Oriental. Two words about the word "cimarrón". The pregauchos and the culture of the mule: Antecedents of the Spanish conquest and colonization. The mule drivers Genesis of the gauchería: The Jesuit missions. The Portuguese. The Sacramento Colony. Defining the gaucho: Buenos Aires and its pampas. Montevideo and the Banda Oriental. The Leather Age: Changadores and "gauderios". Gauderios. The diaspora of the tapes. The camiluchos. The maroon stay. From rodeo cattle. The saladeros and social change: On the word "gaucho". The etymological question. Gauchos militiamen and gaucho soldiers: The guerrillas of the border. The gaucho seen by travelers: The Argentine gaucho. In the Buenos Aires pampas. The federal gaucho. Enterrianos and correntinos. The eastern gaucho. The gaucho from Rio Grande do Sul. Bibliography. Illustration and general indexes. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.