The Cattlemen From the Rio Grande Across the Far Marias
by Mari Sandoz
- New York Hastings 1958
- 527 p
Includes Index and Bibliography
First cow upon the Plains -- Noble ancestry -- The cow walks again -- Some dedicated men -- Pulling for new grass -- The moving trails -- The Indian summer of Old Dodge -- Deepening dedication -- Disciples under the oak and the cottonwood -- The bonanza -- The big die-ups -- The National Trail -- Of the giants -- the XIT -- The threat -- Stetsoned crusaders -- Scattered to the winds -- Cow Horse and betting blood -- Kings of the fenced range -- New breed
Story of cattle in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande to the far regions of Montana, from early Spanish days down to our own times.