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What is The Cadillac Cowboys about?

Glendon Swarthout moved into southwestern American satire with The Cadillac Cowboys, following his loose strategy of alternating dramas with comedies. His new hometown of Scottsdale, Arizona, he felt through his newcomer's sharp eyes, was ripe for some thoughtful ribbing. In his search for the Old West of romantic legend, Professor H. Carleton Cadell of Connecticut, with rich wife and two teenaged step-daughters in tow, arrived at that outpost of civilization -- Scottsdale, Arizona. They buy a house ("pseudo-adobe-mock-tile-roofed-baroque-hacienda -- sort of") on Sarcophagus Mountain. At their first cocktail party they meet Wall Streeters, oil magnates, and dowagers; but the prize is Eddie Bud Boyd, last of the cowboys, now a commission cattleman, resplendent in ranchman's costume and 12-gallon hat. Here is the Old West! On his part, Eddie Bud saw in Carleton his first friend among these rich dudes and his entree into the Scottsdale social whirl. So begins Eddie Bud's downfall and Cadell's disillusion. The last cowboy has made his pile and now wants something to show for his money. The realtors sell him a house on Fast Draw Drive -- a $150,000 rococo-Polynesian job. Sponsored by H.

Author

Glendon Fred Swarthout

Publisher

O'Sullivan Woodside & Co.; O'Sullivan Woodside & Co

Published

1975

Language

EN

ISBN

9780890190418

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Humanities