By Christopher Knowlton
The open variety farm animals period lasted slightly a quarter-century, however it left the United States irrevocably replaced. those few a long time following the Civil struggle introduced the USA its maximum boom-and-bust cycle until eventually the melancholy, the discovery of the meeting line, and the sunrise of the conservation circulate. It encouraged legends, equivalent to that icon of rugged individualism, the cowboy. but this amazing time and its import have remained unexamined for decades.
Cattle Kingdom finds the reality of the way the West rose and fell, and the way its legacy defines us at the present time. the story takes us from dust-choked farm animals drives to the not likely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We enterprise from the Texas Panhandle to the Dakota Badlands to the Chicago stockyards. We meet a various array of players—from the specialist cowboy Teddy Blue to the failed rancher and destiny president Teddy Roosevelt. Knowlton exhibits us how they and others like them may possibly in attaining such a lot of oversized feats: killing hundreds of thousands of bison in a decade, construction the 1st opera residence at the open diversity, riding livestock by way of the thousand, and lots more and plenty extra. Cattle nation is a revelatory new view of the previous West.
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