The hard winter and the range cattle business /
The summer of 1886 in the northern Great Plains was unusually hot and dry, but the following winter of 1886-1887 was devasatiingly cold. Known as "the Great (or Big) DIe-Up," that winter crippled cattle ranching in Montana and led to the end of open-range ranching.
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| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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[Helena] :
[Historical Society of Montana],
1951.
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| Summary: | The summer of 1886 in the northern Great Plains was unusually hot and dry, but the following winter of 1886-1887 was devasatiingly cold. Known as "the Great (or Big) DIe-Up," that winter crippled cattle ranching in Montana and led to the end of open-range ranching. |
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| Item Description: | Caption title. Extracted from The Montana magazine of history, Volume 1, number 4 (October, 1951). Pages [1]-[4] and [22] are unnumbered; the article itself is printed on pages 5-21. Page [2] contains a color reproduction of "The Last of the Five Thousand, or Waiting for a Chinook" by Charles Marion Russell. Page [22] contains a sketch of Thomas J. Walsh (1859-1933) by Paul Ferryman. |
| Physical Description: | [22] pages : illustrations (1 color), portrait ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISSN: | 1939-9952 |