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Author : S. M. Evans,Sarah Carter,Bill Yeo,Glenbow Museum
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Canada, Western
ISBN : 9781552380192
Papers from a conference held at the Glenbow Museum in Sept. 1997.
Author : Peter Iverson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806128844
Focusing on the northern plains and the Southwest, Iverson traces the rise and fall of individual and tribal cattle industries against the backdrop of changing federal Indian policies. He describes the Indian Bureau's inability to recognize that most nineteenth-century reservations were better suited to ranching than farming. Even though allotment and leasing stifled ranching, livestock became symbols and ranching a new means of resisting, adapting, and living - for remaining Native.
Author : Charles Leland Sonnichsen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X000138955
The cattleman didn't vanish with the fencing of the open range. He is very much with us today--this two-fisted, hard-driving citizen of the pastures from El Paso to Butte. He is a very special kind of American, not solely because of the romantic history of his kind, but because of the way he looks at things. C. L. Sonnichsen, who talks the language of cow country folk, has written an absorbing account of the modern cattleman--full of anecdotes and the good, profane dialogue that gives warmth and vigor to western conversation. Above all, it has the quality of wit and humor. Cowboys and Cattle Kings evaluates the cattle raiser of the High Plains and Rocky Mountain areas since the fencing of the open range--how he lives, what he thinks, and how he conducts his business. Sonnichsen considers the roots and background of the present-day cowman and describes modern ranch children, ranch women, cowboys, managers, and others in the business. He clarifies the cowman's position in recent controversies concerning grazing and lease rights and control of the range. From the enormous "ranch empires" to the small enterprises, from the strongholds of the old-time ranchman to the popular dude ranches for tourists, Sonnichsen touches every segment of the industry. Most important, perhaps, is his sympathetic account of the troubles of modern ranching--blizzards, droughts, rustlers, financial burdens--and the counterbalancing advantages of ranching as a way of life.
Author : Christy Steele
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836857879
Looks at the history of cattle ranching in the West and the role of the cowboy in the expansion and culture of the western United States.
Author : Jack Weston
Publisher : New Amsterdam Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000085293557
This is a strong, scholarly, historical account of the cowboy era. The use of photographs, song lyrics, and authentic recollections help make it a convincing portrait.--Kirkus Reviews
Author : Jacqueline M. Moore
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814763414
Winner of the 2010 T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award Cowboys are an American legend, but despite their ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. 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. 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 : Richmond P. Hobson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551997148
A true adventure story of a man who built a four-million acre cattle empire in the remote ranges of the British Columbia Interior.
Author : Bill Jones
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1589804538
The story of the cowboys who drove cattle across bayous, marshes, and rivers through the vast grassland prairies and marshes of south Louisiana. Known mainly for its sugarcane, oil, and seafood resources, south Louisiana has rarely been recognized for its cowboys. This illustrated account tells the largely undocumented history of migratory cattle ranching in Louisiana from colonial days up to the present, from the trail drives of the 1760s to the few existing modern-day ranches.
Author : Christopher Knowlton
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780544369979
“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 : Charles Clement Post,Tex Bender
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1589639782
Originally published in 1886, this is the second cowboy autobiography ever published - a story of the romance and adventures of a life on the plains with the varied experiences as cowboy, stock-owner, and rancher. It includes sections on: The Indian Warrior and His Pony, The Insects, The Mirage, The Wichita Mountains, The Indian, The Buffalo,The Gains in Cattle Ranching, How to Start in the Cattle Business, The Cattle Ranches, The Dashing Cow-Boy, Cattle on the Ranges, Cattle in Winter, Advantages of Cattle over Horse-Raising, Movricks, Branding Calves, Branding Cattle, The Cow-Ponies, Shipping by Rail, The Journey to Chicago, Queens of the Ranch, California as a Cattle Raising State, California Laws, Water Rights, Profits on Cattle-Raising in Texas, as the Business was formerly Conducted, Profits on Cattle Raising as at present Conducted, Advice to the Cowboys, Sheep Driving, Spanish Merinos, Taking Horses Through the Mountains, Hiring Drivers, Sheep Shearing, Scab, Dipping,¿Sheep Driving from California to Sonora, Tolls, Crossing the Sierras, The San Antonio, Driving Sheep in Nevada Food in Camp, The Cook's Duties,Clothing, Bathing, Beds, Temperature, Sleeping in Camp, Shepherd Dogs, Prairie Dogs. Driving Sheep in Idaho, The Laramie Plains, Near Salt Lake, and How to make money in Utah.
Author : Ken Mather
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781926936697
Remarkable cattle drives, famous ranches and legendary characters are at the heart of Ken Mather's account of the early days of ranching in British Columbia. These are stories about drovers, ranchers, cowboys and "mud pups" (the remittance men of the ranching industry). You'll meet such people as: the flamboyant Harper brothers, drovers who went on to become the biggest landowners in BC, with interests in the Harper, Perry, Hat Creek and famous Gang ranches Johnny Wilson, one of the most successful ranchers in the industry, who became known as the "BC Cattle King" Jim Madden, nicknamed "Big Kid" for his exuberant personality and childish innocence and whose simple lifestyle and colourful adventures made him famous in the Nicola and surrounding valleys Coutts Marjoribanks, a mud pup whose skills as a cowboy—and his exploits, such as riding his horse up the steep steps and into the Kalamalka Hotel bar—far outshone his talents as the ranch manager his rich family forced him to be. The story begins at the time of BC's first gold rush, and the start of a decade that would see more than 22,000 head of cattle brought into the colony. The author takes readers through to 1914, by which time ranching in the BC Interior had become big business. Complete with informative tidbits about the cowboy's tools of the trade, Buckaroos and Mud Pups is an entertaining look at fascinating times and the men who made them so.
Author : Paul F. Starrs
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801863511
The dime novel and dude ranch, the barbecue and rodeo, the suburban ranch house and the urban cowboy—all are a direct legacy of nineteenth-century cowboy life that still enlivens American popular culture. Yet at the same time, reports of environmental destruction or economic inefficiency have motivated calls for restricted livestock grazing on public lands or even for an end to ranching altogether. In Let the Cowboy Ride, Starrs offers a detailed and comprehensive look at one of America's most enduring institutions. Richly illustrated with more than 130 photographs and maps, the book combines the authentic detail of an insider's view (Starrs spent six years working cattle on the high desert Great Basin range) with a scholar's keen eye for objective analysis.
Author : John R. Erickson
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781574411775
What does it take to raise cattle in the 21st century? Ask John Erickson. For any aspiring cowboy, this is an essential guide.
Author : Richard Collins
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781948908245
From the big picture to the smallest detail, Richard Collins fashions a rousing memoir about the modern-day lives of cowboys and ranchers. However, Cowboy is a Verb is much more than wild horse rides and cattle chases. While Collins recounts stories of quirky ranch horses, cranky cow critters, cow dogs, and the people who use and care for them, he also paints a rural West struggling to survive the onslaught of relentless suburbanization. A born storyteller with a flair for words, Collins breathes life into the geology, history, and interdependency of land, water, and native and introduced plants and animals. He conjures indelible portraits of the hardworking, dedicated people he comes to know. With both humor and humility, he recounts the day-to-day challenges of ranch life such as how to build a productive herd, distribute your cattle evenly across a rough and rocky landscape, and establish a grazing system that allows pastures enough time to recover. He also intimately recounts a battle over the endangered Gila topminnow and how he and his neighbors worked with university range scientists, forest service conservationists, and funding agencies to improve their ranches as well as the ecological health of the Redrock Canyon watershed. Ranchers who want to stay in the game don’t dominate the landscape; instead, they have to continually study the land and the animals it supports. Collins is a keen observer of both. He demonstrates that patience, resilience, and a common-sense approach to conservation and range management are what counts, combined with an enduring affection for nature, its animals, and the land. Cowboy is a Verb is not a romanticized story of cowboy life on the range, rather it is a complex story of the complicated work involved with being a rancher in the twenty-first-century West.
Author : Tim Lehman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421425917
How did cattle drives come about—and why did the cowboy become an iconic American hero? Cattle drives were the largest, longest, and ultimately the last of the great forced animal migrations in human history. Spilling out of Texas, they spread longhorns, cowboys, and the culture that roped the two together throughout the American West. In cities like Abilene, Dodge City, and Wichita, buyers paid off ranchers, ranchers paid off wranglers, and railroad lines took the cattle east to the packing plants of St. Louis and Chicago. The cattle drives of our imagination are filled with colorful cowboys prodding and coaxing a line of bellowing animals along a dusty path through the wilderness. These sturdy cowhands always triumph over stampedes, swollen rivers, and bloodthirsty Indians to deliver their mighty-horned companions to market—but Tim Lehman’s Up the Trail reveals that the gritty reality was vastly different. Far from being rugged individualists, the actual cow herders were itinerant laborers—a proletariat on horseback who connected cattle from the remote prairies of Texas with the nation’s industrial slaughterhouses. Lehman demystifies the cowboy life by describing the origins of the cattle drive and the extensive planning, complicated logistics, great skill, and good luck essential to getting the cows to market. He reveals how drives figured into the larger story of postwar economic development and traces the complex effects the cattle business had on the environment. He also explores how the premodern cowboy became a national hero who personified the manly virtues of rugged individualism and personal independence. Grounded in primary sources, this absorbing book takes advantage of recent scholarship on labor, race, gender, and the environment. The lively narrative will appeal to students of Texas and western history as well as anyone interested in cowboy culture.