Cowboys And Cattle Drives

Author : Eric Oatman
Publisher : National Geographic Kids
ISBN 13 : 9780792265535
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cowboys on the Western Trail written by Eric Oatman and published by National Geographic Kids. This book was released on 2004 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts events of an 1877 cattle drive from southern Texas to Ogallala, Nebraska, through the letters and journals of two boys and an older member of the crew.

Author : Sara R. Massey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585445431
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas Women on the Cattle Trails written by Sara R. Massey and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the stories of sixteen women who drove cattle up the trail from Texas during the last half of the nineteenth century.

Author : Tim Lehman
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421425912
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up the Trail written by Tim Lehman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Christopher Knowlton
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544369971
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cattle Kingdom written by Christopher Knowlton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : Edith S. McCall
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516033129
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cowboys and Cattle Drives written by Edith S. McCall and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1964 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the lives of four cowboys: Charlie Goodnight, James Cook, Tom Smith, and Will Rogers.

Author : Vic Kovacs
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1499411928
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cowboy's Life written by Vic Kovacs and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers recognize the cowboy as a symbol of the Wild West, but this book illustrates what life was like for real cowboys. Readers will learn about the Spanish origins of cowboys, as well as the rise of America’s cattle industry. This book also describes cattle drives and the famous trails ridden by real cowboys. Vivid visuals are paired with engaging text to deliver an adventurous reading experience. This high-interest book is supplemented by sidebars and “Truth or Myth?” fact boxes to deepen the reader’s understanding of this iconic figure in the Wild West.

Author : Shannon Garst
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789125901
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cowboys and Cattle Trails written by Shannon Garst and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1948, this is the true story of John Benjamin Kendrick (1857-1933), a Texan cattleman who later served as a United States Senator from Wyoming and as the ninth Governor of Wyoming. Kendrick was raised on a ranch and in 1879, at age 22, he signed on with the Snyder-Wulfjen Brothers of Round Rock, Texas, to help bring a herd of steers from Matagorda Bay on the Gulf of Mexico to the grasslands of Wyoming. He settled on a ranch near Sheridan and raised cattle as a cowboy, ranch foreman, and later cattle company owner. Cowboys and Cattle Trails tells of the young Kendrick’s daring adventures and hard work along in the Old West.

Author : Sara R. Massey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585444434
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Cowboys Of Texas written by Sara R. Massey and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers twenty-four essays about African American men and women who worked in the Texas cattle industry from the slave days of the mid-19th century through the early 20th century.

Author : Marc Simmons
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826339218
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teddy's Cattle Drive written by Marc Simmons and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures on the trail as Teddy Abbott learns how to be a wrangler.

Author : Andy Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Log of a Cowboy written by Andy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: