Up the trail : how Texas cowboys herded longhorns and became an American icon / Tim Lehman.
Up the trail : how Texas cowboys herded longhorns and became an American icon / Tim Lehman.
Up the trail : how Texas cowboys herded longhorns and became an American icon / Tim Lehman.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
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G 2018/6810
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Language
English
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Physical content
172 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
How cowboys and longhorns came to Texas -- How the cattle market boomed and busted -- How to organize the largest, longest cattle drive ever -- How Kansas survived the longhorn invasion -- How the trails died and the cowboy lived on.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
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Maryland
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
"Few adventures in the American West surpassed the practice, in the years soon after the Civil War, of taking herds of Longhorn cattle from Texas grasslands to Kansas. There, in towns like Abilene, Dodge City, and Wichita, buyers paid off ranchers, ranchers paid off cowboys, and railroad lines took the cattle east to the packing plants of St. Louis...
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Up the trail : how Texas cowboys herded longhorns and became an American icon / Tim Lehman.
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How Texas cowboys herded longhorns and became an American icon
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2018
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G 2018/6810
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74VKVbZ3j7BA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVbZ3j7BA
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ISBN
9781421425894 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1421425890 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781421425900 paperback ; alkaline paper
1421425904 paperback ; alkaline paper
DDC
978
MMS ID
991024200810602626
