Sheepwagon: Home on the Range

Nancy Weidel

ISBN 10: 0931271649 / ISBN 13: 9780931271649

Published by High Plains Press, 2003

About this Item

or so long, the sheepwagon was such a common sight on the western landscape that it has been overlooked as an important part of the region's culture. Other than a few articles about the quaint sheepwagon or the lonely life of the rapidly disappearing sheepherder, no definitive history of the western sheep business has been written since 1948.
 
 This photo-intensive book gives the history of the sheepwagon and the surrounding sheep business. Here are chapters on the early days of Western sheep-raising; the origins and manufacturing of sheepwagons; traditional sheepherders: their superstitions, customs and pastimes; women and families who lived in sheepwagons; the Basque influence; and modern-day herders, sheepwagons, and restorers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sheepwagon: Home on the Range
• Publisher: High Plains Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0931271649
• ISBN 13: 9780931271649
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

For so long, the sheepwagon was such a common sight on the western landscape that it has been overlooked as an important part of the region s culture. Other than a few articles about the quaint sheepwagon or the lonely life of the rapidly disappearing sheepherder, no definitive history of the western sheep business has been written since 1948.

This photo-intensive book gives the history of the sheepwagon and the surrounding sheep business. Here are chapters on the early days of Western sheep-raising; the origins and manufacturing of sheepwagons; traditional sheepherders: their superstitions, customs and pastimes; women and families who lived in sheepwagons; the Basque influence; and modern-day herders, sheepwagons, and restorers.

Author Weidel spent years interviewing sheepmen and women, sheepherders, wagon builders, and experts for this, the only book on the fascinating first mobile home.

Review

To know more about the sheep raising traditions in the West, particularly in Wyoming, this book is a valuable information source. ...I highly recommend this book.
Candy Moulton, Fence Post --The Fence Post