| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 527 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Author; Title Page; Copyright; INTRODUCTION; DEDICATION; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; BOOK I. THE RELUCTANT IMMIGRANT; CHAPTER 1. First Cow Upon the Plains; CHAPTER 2. Noble Ancestry; CHAPTER 3. The Cow Walks Again; BOOK II. INDIVIDUAL RANCH SPREADS; CHAPTER 1. Some Dedicated Men; CHAPTER 2. Pulling for New Grass; CHAPTER 3. The Moving Trails; CHAPTER 4. The Indian Summer of Old Dodge; CHAPTER 5. Deepening Dedication; BOOK III. ORGANIZATIONS, CORPORATIONS, AND BUGGY BOSSES; CHAPTER 1. Disciples under the Oak and the Cottonwood; CHAPTER 2. The Bonanza |
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CHAPTER 3. The Big Die-UpsCHAPTER 4. The National Trail; CHAPTER 5. Of The Giants-The XIT; BOOKS IV. PRIVATE EMPIRE; CHAPTER 1. The Threat; CHAPTER 2. Stetsoned Crusanders; CHAPTER 3. Scattered to the Winds; CHAPTER 4. Cow Horse and Betting Blood; CHAPTER 5. Kings of the Fenced Rance; BOOK V. BEEF FACTOIES AND FESTIVALS; CHAPTER 1. New Breed-; CHAPTER 2. Ritual and Restoration; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Back Cover |
| Summary |
The Cattlemen is the story of the cattle industry in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande into Montana, from the early Spanish days to Mari Sandoz's contemporary times. It is the second in Sandoz's trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in relation to animal species |
| Notes |
"A Bison book." |
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Reprint of the ed. published by Hastings House, New York, in series: American procession series |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-509) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ranch life -- West (U.S.) -- History
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Cattle trade -- West (U.S.)
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Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
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Cattle trade
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Ranch life
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| SUBJECT |
West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93004749
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| Subject |
West United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0803245998 |
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9780803245990 |
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