Cattle kingdom : the hidden history of the cowboy West / Christopher Knowlton.
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TextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017Description: xxii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780544369962
- 0544369963
- 978Â 23
- F596Â .K58 2017
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| Book | Coffeyville Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Coffeyville Public Library | Adult Books | 978 KNOWLTON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 38670101489546 | |||
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| Book | Independence Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Independence Public Library | Adult Books | 978 KNOWLTON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 36123001598851 | |||
| Book | Iola Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Iola Public Library | Adult Books | 978 Knowlton, Christopher (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Purchased with funds from The Frank and Helen Thompson Memorial. | 34311002665454 | ||
| Book | Parsons Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Parsons Public Library | Adult Books | 978 K73 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34315000795858 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-407) and index.
Part one: Birth of a boom -- The demise of the bison -- Cattle for cash -- Birth of the cattle town -- Cattle-town high jinks -- Lighting the fuse -- Cowboy aristocrats -- Part two: Cowboys and cattle kings -- From stockyard to steakhouse -- The rise of Cheyenne -- Barbed wire: the devil's rope -- Frewen's castle -- The nature crusader -- Part three: the boom busts -- Teddy Blue and the necktie socials -- Mortal ruin -- Poker on joint-stock principles -- The big die-up -- the fall of Cheyenne -- Part four: Nails in the coffin -- The rustler problem -- Nate Champion and the Johnson County War -- The cowboy president -- The closing of the range -- Failed second acts -- Myths of the Old West -- Afterword: "Unhorsed for good."
Describes the truth of how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today.
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