The Trampling Herd: The Story of the Cattle Range in America

Cattle crossed the Rio Grande into what is now the United States as early as 1580, forty years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. In this colorful and comprehensive history of the cattle industry in the American West, Paul I. Wellman reaches back to the early sixteenth century, when the first cattle were brought from Spain to Mexico. He hits his stride in describing the great cattle drives that began after the Civil War when Texans desperately needed to ex-pand their markets. Hell-bent cow towns like Abilene and Dodge City make a big noise again, and so do figures of different bents: Joseph C. McCoy, Charles Goodnight, Oliver Loving, John Chisum, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickok, and Billy the Kid. The coming of barbed wire and the great blizzards of 1886 and 1887 brought about dramatic changes in the cattle industry—all chronicled down to 1939, when The Trampling Herd was first published.

History

Wellman, Paul Iselin

Americas

University Of Nebraska Press

Cattle crossed the Rio Grande into what is now the United States as early as 1580, forty years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. In this colorful and comprehensive history of the cattle industry in the American West, Paul I. Wellman reaches back to the early sixteenth century, when the first cattle were brought from Spain to Mexico. He hits his stride in describing the great cattle drives that began after the Civil War when Texans desperately needed to ex-pand their markets. Hell-bent cow towns like Abilene and Dodge City make a big noise again, and so do figures of different bents: Joseph C. McCoy, Charles Goodnight, Oliver Loving, John Chisum, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickok, and Billy the Kid. The coming of barbed wire and the great blizzards of 1886 and 1887 brought about dramatic changes in the cattle industryâ€”all chronicled down to 1939, when The Trampling Herd was first published.

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Cooper Square Pub

In the Old West, the beginnings of the machine age encountered a last vestige of the stone age. The white man was embarking upon the great industrial era; the red man still used the flint arrowhead. There was little common ground between these two cultures. To the white man, land was a commodity which could be bought and sold; to the red man, the earth belonged to everyone; that a person could claim to own a piece of it was repugnant to him. The Indians were doomed in the wars which inevitably followed this clash of cultures. The white man possessed the repeating rifle, the telegraph and the railroad. The Machine Age remorselessly engulfed the wilderness. But not without a fight. THE INDIANS WARS OF THE WEST is the record of that struggle. Here you will meet Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Chief joseph and many other great leaders of the Indian nations as well as their adversaries who included General George Crook, General Alfred Terry and General George A. Custer. here you will also find the horrifying record of the white man's treatment of the Indian. In the name of "Civilization" the white man shot down defenseless men, women and children at places like Camp Grant, Sand Creek and Wounded Knee; fed strychnine to Indian warriors; set whole villages of people out naked to freeze in the Montana winter and confined thousands in what amounted to concentration camps. THE INDIAN WARS OF THE WEST captures a time when the issue of supremacy was decided by bullets and arrows. It is the record of a terrible and bloody struggle. It is also the record of the spirit of those days, the action, the suffering, the heroism and the despair.

Indian Wars of the West

Indian Head Books

Magnificent destiny;: A novel about the great secret adventure of Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston

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