The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grande across the Far Marias
by Mari Sandoz
Great Plains {Sandoz} (2), American Procession Series (6)
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The Cattlemen is the story of the cattle industry in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande into Montana, from the early Spanish days to Mari Sandoz's contemporary times. It is the second in Sandoz's trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in relation to animal species.
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- Canonical title
- The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grande across the Far Marias
- Original title
- The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grand Across the Far Marias
- Original publication date
- 1958
- People/Characters
- Wyatt Earp; Charles Goodnight; Chisholm Trail
- Important places
- Abilene, Kansas, USA; Dodge City, Kansas, USA; Wyoming, USA
- Important events
- Quarantine against Texas cattle; Stampedes
- Dedication
- To the old-time hard-bitten, hard-driven cowmen, the greatest believers in next year, and the year after that ---
- Quotations
- To most of the world the cattlemen and his cowboys are not known for their beef production..instead they are the Wild West that is largely imaginary. To some of the rest of us, however, the rancher is the encompassing, the co... (show all)ntinuous and enduring symbol of modern man on the Great Plains.
On all the Great Plains, reaching like a thumb down from Canada deep into the country of the Rio Grande, the one enduring figure has been the man who works with cattle. - Publisher's editor
- Henry G. Alsberg
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