Cattle Kids

Cattle Kids
Author: Cat Urbigkit
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2007-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781590785089

American Farm Bureau Foundation for Education Recommended Book Cowboys aren't necessarily boys, and they aren't necessarily grown-ups, either. In this lively photo essay, young readers will meet girls and boys who live a unique way of life on their families' cattle ranches. Cowgirls and cowboys take part in many aspects of livestock operations, from calving and branding to haying and rounding up the herd. With a colorful and informative text, illustrated with action-packed photographs, Cat Urbigkit's book follows cattle kids through a year of ranching on the western range.

The Chisholm Trail

The Chisholm Trail
Author: Donald Emmet Worcester
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1980
Genre: Cattle trade
ISBN: 9781566193979

Cattle Kingdom

Cattle Kingdom
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, The New York Times–bestselling 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. “Cattle Kingdom is the smartly told account of rampant capitalism making its home—however destructive and decidedly unromantic—on the range. . . . [A] fresh and winning perspective.” —The Dallas Morning News “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.” —The 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 “Vastly informative.” —Library Journal “Absorbing.” —Publishers Weekly

Trails to Texas

Trails to Texas
Author: Terry G. Jordan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1981
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

A look at the development of open-range cattle ranching which dominated the Great Plains and proliferated in Texas during the end of the nineteenth century.

Texas Women on the Cattle Trails

Texas Women on the Cattle Trails
Author: Sara R. Massey
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781585445431

Tells the stories of sixteen women who drove cattle up the trail from Texas during the last half of the nineteenth century.

The Western Range

The Western Range
Author: United States. Forest Service
Publisher:
Total Pages: 712
Release: 1936
Genre: Livestock
ISBN:

Welfare Ranching

Welfare Ranching
Author: George Wuerthner
Publisher: Foundations for Deep Ecology 2
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Documentary photography
ISBN: 9781559639439

"This book shows the real West, not the one seen in postcards or imagined from romantic movies and novels. With photographs and essays, it shows not only the most shocking cases of overgrazing, but also the subtle changes that signal ecological disruption on a massive scale. Welfare Ranching explains the cultural and historical causes of the wasting of the West and offers a vision of the renewal that is possible if citizens are willing to demand that their government shift land management priorities to serving the public and natural good, rather than facilitating private gain. Ultimately, this book points the way to the greatest opportunity yet remaining for ecological restoration and wildlife protection in this country."--BOOK JACKET.

The Cattle Kings

The Cattle Kings
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