Henry Blanton is the "last cowboy" of Jane Kramer's classic portrait, the failed hero of his own mythology, the man who ends an era for himself. His story - his flawed, funny and in the end tragic efforts to be a proper cowboy, is the story of a country coming of age in great promise and greater disappointment.
An evocative and valuable piece of social history and an accurate portrayal of the crippled dreams and frustrations of the hard-scrabble life of Henry Blanton.
