“It was so deeply appealing to people to be able to consider themselves a cowboy that they often didn’t care who was necessarily excluded on the other side. Even when they themselves had faced that exclusion previously, they were able to take that mythology, reshape it, yes, but still redeploy it as a way to say we belong but maybe other people don’t.”
Meet Rebecca Scofield (bit.ly/2IBAx00), an assistant professor in the Department of History (bit.ly/3lqHLm1) at the University of Idaho. You don’t get more Western, masculine and American than a cowboy, right? That’s even more true for a cowboy who can ride a bucking bronco or an enraged steer at a rodeo. Rebecca wanted to delve into the idea of the cowboy from the point of view of people who may not, at first glance, fit into the archetype.
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More U of I Research:
Fish and Wildlife Sciences doctoral candidate Matthew Dunkle, along with researchers from the Yakama and Umatilla tribes, explored the spawning migrations of Pacific lampreys. The fish move nutrients from oceans to freshwater streams in non-random patterns. Read more (bit.ly/3lsd0wW).
Adam Jones, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, was awarded a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to study sexual selection and sexual conflict in pipefish and seahorses. He wants to understand the relationship between sexual selection and genetics. Read more (bit.ly/3poDOAv).
U of I researchers conducted a survey of inland Pacific Northwest farmers. They found that there was no relationship between documented changes in temperature and precipitation and the perceptions farmers have of those changes or the farmers’ intentions to alter their operations. Read more (bit.ly/3eS5TeR).
Music:
“Young Republicans” by Steve Combs (bit.ly/2PsMCpw) via freemusicarchive.org, not modified (bit.ly/2Ju7MQb).
“Remember Love” by Lobo Loco (bit.ly/36xlD36) via freemusicarchive.org, not modified (bit.ly/3lsJQxB).
