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The vanishing edge pool, and always the mountains

“After arriving via the Union Pacific Railroad, and later in their own Model T’s, young eastern women changed into cowgirl garb and fell head-over-heels in love with roughnecks, while the men tramped into the wilderness looking for grizzly bear.

In the early days a dude was usually an easterner with a social-register listing. Other variations on the word included dudeen, describing a lady, or dudette, meaning a child or a lady smitten by a cowboy.”

Old-time Dude Ranches Out West,
by Elizabeth Clair Flood