
Cattle Kingdom
The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
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John McLain
A revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made
The Open Range cattle era lasted barely a quarter-century, but it left America irrevocably changed. These few decades following the Civil War brought America its greatest boom-and-bust cycle until the Depression, the invention of the assembly line, and the dawn of the conservation movement. It inspired legends, such as that icon of rugged individualism, the cowboy. Yet this extraordinary time and its import have remained unexamined for decades.
Cattle Kingdom reveals the truth of how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We venture from the Texas Panhandle, to the Dakota Badlands, to the Chicago stockyards. We meet a diverse array of players - from the expert cowboy Teddy Blue to the failed rancher and future president Teddy Roosevelt. Knowlton tells us how they and others like them could achieve so many outsized feats: killing millions of bison in a decade, building the first opera house on the open range, driving cattle by the thousand, and much more. Cattle Kingdom is a revelatory new view of the Old West.
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Truly The Store of The COWBOY
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Overall, I thought it was an interesting book on the Cattle years, and the rise and fall of the industry. I’ve listened to a ton on the west, but little on the cattle industry alone.
Parts of the book broke up into mini biographies.
What I didn’t like was some of the personal opinions and shadow of political correctness/woke thoughts.
The author was almost apologetic that Teddy Roosevelt was an avid hunter. Citing it was before Darwin’s evolution theory, just odd and very college campus feeling. He also went on a little tangent on Owen Wister, and speculated where his views on women came from.
It’s just strange to be learning about western history, then all of a sudden feel like you’re talking to a Poli-Sci major at a state school.
I did appreciate him quoting one of the Time Life “The Old West” books. He certainly took his research seriously.
Interesting bits and pieces of Info
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Don’t listen for these weak people reviews! This books is for the strong!
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I Had No Idea
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Thorough coverage
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The Wide Wide West
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The eccentric cast of characters who oversaw the rise and fall of the old cattle west
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Where is the beef?
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Great treatment of history of the American west
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very well
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