This collection of stories about the early twentieth-century agricultural colonies founded by persecuted Eastern European Jews on the pampa has been both praised and damned -praised as Argentine Jewry's citizenship papers and damned as a ...
The Jews had to survive many natural hardships and sometimes the hatred of fascist groups after the First World War and in later years. Some Jewish gauchos still practice the old life.
The story of this nineteenth-century migratory ranch hand is told in vivid detail by Richard W. Slatta, a professor of history at North Carolina State University at Raleigh and the author of Cowboys of the Americas (1990).