Prose and poetry of the live stock industry of the United States : with outlines of the origin and ancient history of our live stock animals /
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New York :
Antiquarian Press,
1959.
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Table of Contents:
- In the night-time of human history
- The stock-raising industry in remote antiquity
- The coming of domesticated animals to America
- Introduction of live stock into the dominion of the United States
- Origin and descent of our live-stock animals
- Domesticated and wild horses
- The ass and the mule
- Swine and their wild relatives
- Domesticated and wild cattle
- Domesticated and wild sheep and goats
- Wild traits in cattle, sheep, and goats
- Wild traits in horses, asses, and swine
- The American buffalo and its relatives
- Annihilation of the buffalo
- Present status of the buffalo and its hybrid kin
- The re-stocking of the plains : "the great American desert"
- Pioneer westward movements
- The Texas development of the range cattle industry
- Origin and development of range sheep-herding
- Revival of the range-cattle industry after the Civil War
- Memorable period of "ups and downs"
- The forward movement after the Panic of '73 [that is, 1873]
- Wild and woolly cowtowns
- The old cattle trails
- The old-time cowboy
- Range and ranch in the old times
- The round-up and cattle branding
- The range rustler
- Extension of sheep-raising over the range country
- The great cattle boom of the early eighties [that is, 1880s]
- The aftermath of the great cattle boom
- Live stock tragedies of the range
- Pests of the Western stock ranges
- Revolution in the live stock industry on the range
- A retrospect and a tribute.