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Languages : en
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Texas Almanac, 2000-2001 (Millennium Edition)
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Up the Trail
Author: Tim Lehman
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421425912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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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.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421425912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
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.
The Western
Author: Gary Kraisinger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975482803
Category : Cattle trade
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The Western Cattle Trail stretched from the southern most points of Texas to the Canadian border. It carried more longhorns a longer distance for more years than any other cattle trail. The trek across Texas, Indian Territory, Kansas, Nebraska and beyond required months of hard trail life for the drivers and herds. However, most maps show this trial ending at Dodge City, Kansas.
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ISBN: 9780975482803
Category : Cattle trade
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The Western Cattle Trail stretched from the southern most points of Texas to the Canadian border. It carried more longhorns a longer distance for more years than any other cattle trail. The trek across Texas, Indian Territory, Kansas, Nebraska and beyond required months of hard trail life for the drivers and herds. However, most maps show this trial ending at Dodge City, Kansas.
Texas Women on the Cattle Trails
Author: Sara R. Massey
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585445431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Tells the stories of sixteen women who drove cattle up the trail from Texas during the last half of the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585445431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Tells the stories of sixteen women who drove cattle up the trail from Texas during the last half of the nineteenth century.
Cowboys on the Western Trail
Author: Eric Oatman
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
ISBN: 9780792265535
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
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.
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
ISBN: 9780792265535
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
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.
Black Cowboys Of Texas
Author: Sara R. Massey
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585444434
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585444434
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
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.
The Log of a Cowboy
Author: Andy Adams
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Category : Cattle trails
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Category : Cattle trails
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Cattle Trails and Cowboys ebook
Author: Heather Schwartz
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 0743910249
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
The iconic American cowboy is a long-running part of popular culture. But when did cowboys first appear in history? What influenced their creation? Dive deep into your exploration of US history with this primary source book that provides unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of primary sources include a poster of Buffalo Bills Wild West Show, an 1840 engraving of vaqueros, a map of the Chisholm Trail, and many more. This 32-page book includes text features that help students increase reading comprehension and their understanding of the subject. Packed with interesting facts, sidebars, and essential vocabulary, this book is perfect for reports or projects.
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 0743910249
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
The iconic American cowboy is a long-running part of popular culture. But when did cowboys first appear in history? What influenced their creation? Dive deep into your exploration of US history with this primary source book that provides unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of primary sources include a poster of Buffalo Bills Wild West Show, an 1840 engraving of vaqueros, a map of the Chisholm Trail, and many more. This 32-page book includes text features that help students increase reading comprehension and their understanding of the subject. Packed with interesting facts, sidebars, and essential vocabulary, this book is perfect for reports or projects.
We Pointed Them North
Author: E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806186801
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is "all Teddy Blue. My part was to keep out of the way and not mess it up by being literary.... Because the cowboy flourished in the middle of the Victorian age, which is certainly a funny paradox, no realistic picture of him was ever drawn in his own day. Here is a self-portrait by a cowboy which is full and honest." And Teddy Blue himself says, "Other old-timers have told all about stampedes and swimming rivers and what a terrible time we had, but they never put in any of the fun, and fun was at least half of it." So here it is—the cowboy classic, with the "terrible" times and the "fun" which have entertained readers everywhere. First published in 1939, We Pointed Them North has been brought back into print by the University of Oklahoma Press in completely new format, with drawings by Nick Eggenhofer, and with the full, original text.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806186801
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is "all Teddy Blue. My part was to keep out of the way and not mess it up by being literary.... Because the cowboy flourished in the middle of the Victorian age, which is certainly a funny paradox, no realistic picture of him was ever drawn in his own day. Here is a self-portrait by a cowboy which is full and honest." And Teddy Blue himself says, "Other old-timers have told all about stampedes and swimming rivers and what a terrible time we had, but they never put in any of the fun, and fun was at least half of it." So here it is—the cowboy classic, with the "terrible" times and the "fun" which have entertained readers everywhere. First published in 1939, We Pointed Them North has been brought back into print by the University of Oklahoma Press in completely new format, with drawings by Nick Eggenhofer, and with the full, original text.
Teddy's Cattle Drive
Author: Marc Simmons
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826339218
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Adventures on the trail as Teddy Abbott learns how to be a wrangler.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826339218
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Adventures on the trail as Teddy Abbott learns how to be a wrangler.