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Author: W. R. McAfee
Publisher: Davis Mountain Press
Published: 1993-01-15
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780962339417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The classic portrait of Texas cattlemen as told by brothers Wade and Roy Reid. From the Texas Panhandle in the late 1800s, the Reids made their way to the Davis Mountains where they carved a productive ranch out of a wilderness.
Author: Mari Sandoz
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 560
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Story of cattle in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande to the far regions of Montana, from early Spanish days down to our own times.
Author: Jacqueline M. Moore
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0814757391
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman, owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing the class, gender, and labor histories of ranching in Texas during the second half of the nineteenth century. As working-class men, cowboys showed their masculinity through their skills at work as well as public displays in town. But what cowboys thought was manly behavior did not always match those ideas of the business-minded cattlemen, who largely absorbed middle-class masculine ideals of restraint. Real men, by these standards, had self-mastery over their impulses and didn’t fight, drink, gamble or consort with "unsavory" women. Moore explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans considered the most masculine. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
Author: Bill Shuey
Publisher:
Published: 2019-01-13
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781724686794
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Cattlemen is a western novel based on the relationship between Bill Brubaker and Bud Baxter, childhood friends who share the dream of becoming cattlemen. The friends grew up on adjoining farms in the Huzzah Valley in central Missouri, left home together, fought in the Civil War in the same unit, and went to Texas together to pursue their dream of becoming Cattlemen.They rounded up feral cattle in Texas and Oklahoma Territory. Fought the Ku Klux Klan during reconstruction in Texas, built a ranch in Hopkins County, Texas, married, had children, and then sold out their Texas ranching operation. They drove two herds of cattle to Kansas, sold their longhorn stock, and continued their quest for their dream by taking their new breeding stock to Montana and building a ranch there.Their trail drives were filled with threat of Indians, rustlers, storms, swollen rivers, and the back breaking work of a trail drive. If you like a glimpse of the life of cattlemen in the old west, you will find this book intriguing.
Author: Mari Sandoz
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1978-01-01
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780803258822
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This thundering book by the author of Old Jules is the story of the vast cattle industry of the American West; stupendous in length, concept, and achievement, it is the result of a lifetime of knowledge and research. . . . The whole story is here, long but never dull, written with humor and understatement."—Kirkus Service "Here, tough as whang leather, nourishing as pemmican, turbulent as Dodge City on a Saturday night in the late 1870s, is what time may well decide is the definitive history of the founding and flourishing of the cattle industry on this continent. . . . This splendid book says more (and says it better) about the most romantic figures of the old West than dozens of other books that have ranged over this familiar ground. Mari Sandoz has given herself room to move with tremendous drive and scholarship."—Victor P. Hass, Chicago Sunday Tribune "Drawing the fullest flavor from her expert descriptive technique, Mari Sandoz has written a regional history to stand among the best of its kind."—Library Journal
Author: United States. National Park Service
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ernest Staples Osgood
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1929-01-01
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0816658412
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Day of the Cattleman was first published in 1929. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The legend of the Wild West, as celebrated in thousands upon thousands of western stories and movies, radio and television programs, has a firm grip on the imaginations of both young and old, not only in America but in many other lands. But, popular though such versions are, they do not tell how the west was really won. Professor Osgood's account sets the record straight for those who want authentic history rather than melodramatic fiction. "The range cattleman," Professor Osgood writes, "has more solid achievements to his credit than the creation of a legend. He was the first to utilize the semi-arid plains. Using the most available natural resources, the native grasses, as a basis, he built up a great and lucrative enterprise, attracted eastern and foreign capital to aid him in the development of a new economic area, stimulated railroad building in order that the product of the ranges might get to an eastern market, and laid the economic foundation of more than one western commonwealth." Professor Osgood traces the rise and fall of the range cattle industry, particularly in Montana and Wyoming, from 1845 to the turn of the century. He gives a detailed account of the activities of the stock growers' associations and of the cattlemen's relations with the railroads and with the Federal government. The book has won critical acclaim both in this country and abroad. The Saturday Review has described it as an "honest, scientific, and thorough examination" of a "semi-epic phase of Western life, now almost completely dead." In England, the Times Literary Supplement called it "the only substantial record of this particular chapter in the history of the West."
Author: Richard Sydney Porteous
Publisher:
Published: 2016-06-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780994409102
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