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The Resource Cattle kingdom : the hidden history of the cowboy west, Christopher Knowlton, (electronic resource)

Cattle kingdom : the hidden history of the cowboy west, Christopher Knowlton, (electronic resource)

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  • Describes the truth of how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today
  • A rich and endlessly surprising new account of the rise and demise of the open range cattle era, revealing how that moment created the institutions and myths in whose shadows we still live
  • "The open range cattle era lasted barely a quarter-century, but it left America irrevocably changed. These few decades following the Civil War brought America its greatest boom-and-bust cycle until the Depression, the invention of the assembly line, and the dawn of the conservation movement. It inspired legends, such as that icon of rugged individualism, the cowboy. Yet this extraordinary time and its import have remained unexamined for decades. Cattle Kingdom reveals the truth of 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 venture from the Texas Panhandle to the Dakota Badlands to the Chicago stockyards. We meet a diverse array of players?from the expert cowboy Teddy Blue to the failed rancher and future president Teddy Roosevelt. Knowlton shows us how they and others like them could achieve so many outsized feats: killing millions of bison in a decade, building the first opera house on the open range, driving cattle by the thousand, and much more. Cattle Kingdom is a revelatory new view of the Old West."--Amazon.com
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xxii, 426, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)
Contents
  • Front Cover; Front Flap; Front Matter; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; MAJOR CATTLE TRAILS; Introduction; PART ONE: BIRTH OF A BOOM; 1. The Demise of the Bison; 2. Cattle for Cash; 3. Birth of the Cattle Town; 4. Cattle-Town High Jinks; 5. Lighting the Fuse; 6. Cowboy Aristocrats; PART TWO: COWBOYS AND CATTLE KINGS; 7. From Stockyard to Steakhouse; 8. The Rise of Cheyenne; 9. Barbed Wire: The Devil's Rope; 10. Frewen's Castle; 11. The Nature Crusader; PART THREE: THE BOOM BUSTS; 12. Teddy Blue and the Necktie Socials; 13. Mortal Ruin; 14. Poker on Joint-Stock Principles15. The Big Die-Up; 16. The Fall of Cheyenne; PART FOUR: NAILS IN THE COFFIN; 17. The Rustler Problem; 18. Nate Champion and the Johnson County War; 19. The Cowboy President; 20. The Closing of the Range; 21. Failed Second Acts; 22. Myths of the Old West; Back Matter; Afterword: ""Unhorsed for Good""; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Illustration Credits; Back Flap; Back Cover; Spine
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9780544369979
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Cattle kingdom : the hidden history of the cowboy west
Title
Cattle kingdom
Title remainder
the hidden history of the cowboy west
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Christopher Knowlton
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
  • Describes the truth of how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today
  • A rich and endlessly surprising new account of the rise and demise of the open range cattle era, revealing how that moment created the institutions and myths in whose shadows we still live
  • "The open range cattle era lasted barely a quarter-century, but it left America irrevocably changed. These few decades following the Civil War brought America its greatest boom-and-bust cycle until the Depression, the invention of the assembly line, and the dawn of the conservation movement. It inspired legends, such as that icon of rugged individualism, the cowboy. Yet this extraordinary time and its import have remained unexamined for decades. Cattle Kingdom reveals the truth of 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 venture from the Texas Panhandle to the Dakota Badlands to the Chicago stockyards. We meet a diverse array of players?from the expert cowboy Teddy Blue to the failed rancher and future president Teddy Roosevelt. Knowlton shows us how they and others like them could achieve so many outsized feats: killing millions of bison in a decade, building the first opera house on the open range, driving cattle by the thousand, and much more. Cattle Kingdom is a revelatory new view of the Old West."--Amazon.com
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Knowlton, Christopher
Dewey number
978
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
F596
LC item number
.K625 2017eb
Literary form
non fiction
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  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • Ranch life
  • Cattle trade
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Cattle trade
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Manners and customs
  • Ranch life
  • West (U.S.)
  • West (U.S)
  • United States, West
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Cattle kingdom : the hidden history of the cowboy west, Christopher Knowlton, (electronic resource)
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-407) and index
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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Contents
Front Cover; Front Flap; Front Matter; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; MAJOR CATTLE TRAILS; Introduction; PART ONE: BIRTH OF A BOOM; 1. The Demise of the Bison; 2. Cattle for Cash; 3. Birth of the Cattle Town; 4. Cattle-Town High Jinks; 5. Lighting the Fuse; 6. Cowboy Aristocrats; PART TWO: COWBOYS AND CATTLE KINGS; 7. From Stockyard to Steakhouse; 8. The Rise of Cheyenne; 9. Barbed Wire: The Devil's Rope; 10. Frewen's Castle; 11. The Nature Crusader; PART THREE: THE BOOM BUSTS; 12. Teddy Blue and the Necktie Socials; 13. Mortal Ruin; 14. Poker on Joint-Stock Principles15. The Big Die-Up; 16. The Fall of Cheyenne; PART FOUR: NAILS IN THE COFFIN; 17. The Rustler Problem; 18. Nate Champion and the Johnson County War; 19. The Cowboy President; 20. The Closing of the Range; 21. Failed Second Acts; 22. Myths of the Old West; Back Matter; Afterword: ""Unhorsed for Good""; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Illustration Credits; Back Flap; Back Cover; Spine
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xxii, 426, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780544369979
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations.
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a3e378e8-26da-4cc6-b53b-64e4359da945
Publisher number
EB00679523
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remote
System control number
  • (OCoLC)988764796
  • (OCoLC)ocn988764796
  • 1356399
Label
Cattle kingdom : the hidden history of the cowboy west, Christopher Knowlton, (electronic resource)
Link
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-407) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Front Cover; Front Flap; Front Matter; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; MAJOR CATTLE TRAILS; Introduction; PART ONE: BIRTH OF A BOOM; 1. The Demise of the Bison; 2. Cattle for Cash; 3. Birth of the Cattle Town; 4. Cattle-Town High Jinks; 5. Lighting the Fuse; 6. Cowboy Aristocrats; PART TWO: COWBOYS AND CATTLE KINGS; 7. From Stockyard to Steakhouse; 8. The Rise of Cheyenne; 9. Barbed Wire: The Devil's Rope; 10. Frewen's Castle; 11. The Nature Crusader; PART THREE: THE BOOM BUSTS; 12. Teddy Blue and the Necktie Socials; 13. Mortal Ruin; 14. Poker on Joint-Stock Principles15. The Big Die-Up; 16. The Fall of Cheyenne; PART FOUR: NAILS IN THE COFFIN; 17. The Rustler Problem; 18. Nate Champion and the Johnson County War; 19. The Cowboy President; 20. The Closing of the Range; 21. Failed Second Acts; 22. Myths of the Old West; Back Matter; Afterword: ""Unhorsed for Good""; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Illustration Credits; Back Flap; Back Cover; Spine
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xxii, 426, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780544369979
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations.
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
a3e378e8-26da-4cc6-b53b-64e4359da945
Publisher number
EB00679523
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • (OCoLC)988764796
  • (OCoLC)ocn988764796
  • 1356399

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