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Author | : Kathryn Cornell Dolan |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2021-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1496218647 |
Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the nineteenth century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped onto society’s larger struggles with colonization, environmentalism, U.S. identity, ethnicity, and industrialization.
Author | : Nat Love |
Publisher | : Black Classic Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780933121171 |
Thousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee, the newly freed Love struck out for Kansas after the war. He was fifteen and already endowed with a reckless and romantic readiness. In wide-open Dodge City he joined up with an outfit from the Texas Panhandle to begin a career riding the range and fighting Indians, outlaws, and the elements. Years later he would say, "I had an unusually adventurous life". That was rare understatement. More characteristic was Love's claim: "I carry the marks of fourteen bullet wounds on different parts of my body, most any one of which would be sufficient to kill an ordinary man, but I am not even crippled". In 1876 a virtuoso rodeo performance in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, won him the moniker of Deadwood Dick. He became known as DD all over the West, entering into dime novels as a mysteriously dark and heroic presence. This vivid autobiography includes encounters with Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, a soon-after view of the Custer battlefield, and a successful courtship. Love left the range in 1890, the year of the official closing of the frontier. Then, as a Pullman train conductor he traveled his old trails, and those good times bring his story to a satisfying end.
Author | : Herman Oliver |
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Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Cattle trade |
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Author | : Giles French |
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Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Cattle trade |
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Into the valley of Donner and Blitzen, almost a century ago, rode Peter French with 1,200 head of California cattle. John Devine of White Horse Ranch was already in the Harney country of Southeast Oregon, but the Blitzen was left for Peter. This is the story of how the great stockmen of the late 1800s set a pattern for modern cow ranches, improving the land and cattle by the best scientific methods available. Peter French himself irrigated thousands of acres of sageland with his canals and ditches. Hard-driving and ambitious, French, in a few years, won control of 200,000 acres of range land, and thousands of head of cattle.
Author | : Fidel Hernández |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2012-02-27 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1603445870 |
In this completely revised Texas A&M University Press edition, Guthery and coauthor Fidel Hernández have breathed new life into a classic work that for more than twenty years has been teaching biologists, managers, and ranchers to "think like a quail." Updated with the latest research on quail habitat management, predator control, and recent issues such as aflatoxin contamination, Hernández and Guthery help land stewards understand the optimum conditions for encouraging and sustaining quail populations while continuing to manage rangeland for cattle production. Written in a style that is entertaining and easy to read, this book is, in Guthery’s words, "meant to be kept on the dashboard of your pickup." More than 150 helpful photographs and figures, along with supporting tables, accompany the text. In his foreword to this edition of Beef, Brush, and Bobwhites, respected Texas wildlife photographer Wyman Meinzer writes of how the calls of a covey of bobwhites—or the unfortunate absence of those calls—can remind us "that wildlife and habitat conservation is directly proportional to the quality of stewardship that we bestow on the land."
Author | : Christopher Knowlton |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2017-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0544369971 |
“The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!” — Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom reveals how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We meet a diverse cast, from cowboy Teddy Blue to failed rancher and future president Teddy Roosevelt. This is a revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made. “Knowlton writes well about all the fun stuff: trail drives, rambunctious cow towns, gunfights and range wars . . . [He] enlists all of these tropes in support of an intriguing thesis: that the romance of the Old West arose upon the swelling surface of a giant economic bubble . . . Cattle Kingdom is The Great Plains by way of The Big Short.” — Wall Street Journal “Knowlton deftly balances close-ups and bird’s-eye views. We learn countless details . . . More important, we learn why the story played out as it did.” — New York Times Book Review “The best one-volume history of the legendary era of the cowboy and cattle empires in thirty years.” — True West
Author | : Donald Hedgpeth |
Publisher | : Artisan Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Cowboys in art |
ISBN | : 9780867130355 |
James Reynolds vividly depicts a Western landscape as timeless as the subjects who dominate it. His paintings, woven together with Don Hedgpeth's knowledgeable stories, explore a new outlook on the enduring American symbol of the cowboy. 85 full-color paintings.
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Total Pages | : 1338 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Lewis Atherton |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1972-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803257597 |
Examines the role of the ranchers in shaping the American West and probes their contributions to the nation's cultural development