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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mattison, Ray H., 1903-1980 (Author)
Other Authors: Russell, Charles M. (Charles Marion), 1864-1926 (Illustrator), Ferryman, Paul (Illustrator)
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: [Helena] : [Historical Society of Montana], 1951.
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Description
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.
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