A Ranchman's Recollections; An Autobiography in Which Unfamiliar Facts Bearing Upon the Origin of the Cattle Industry in the Southwest and of the ... Stated, and Characteristic Incidents Recorded - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1921. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE Old Gran'pa Frontispiece S. M. S. Cows In Spring Form 33 Throwing A Round-up On Water 65 Separating Cows From Calves 75 Kirkland B. Armour 87 Cutting Out Cattle By Classes 101 Bringing Back A Truant 117 G. F. Swift 135 Philip D. Armour 139 Nelson Morris 143 S. M. S. Boys Saddling In Corral 159 "ol' Cabby" 165 Curley And Jack 205 Mage Himself On "old Gran'pa" 215 CHAPTER I •• - .- '•'. THE EARLY DAYS .',: IT IS a far cry from the S. M. S. Ranch in 1920 to the five-board fence on my father's little farm, near Leavenworth, Kans., where I sat fifty years ago (in 1870) watching the first herd of Texas cattle that I had ever seen. They were driven into an adjoining pasture, and as I look back through the vista of men, methods and events that have filled that gap in the evolution of the cattle industry I am reminded that The Breeder's Gazette in asking me to review that period from a personal standpoint may not have realized how full of it I am, or how much space would be required to tell the story, which must necessarily be rambling. I shall not attempt to write history in chronological order. As Henry Watterson, in some wonderful stories of men and events, in his "Looking Backward" series, wrote of characters and events of interest rather than orderly history, so I wish I might use the general title of his recollections, because my own will be simply the memories of "looking backward," and yet I shall try to reach the time when the past steps upon the threshold of the present. Harking back to the boy of 10 years on the board fence, I recall that the cattle were from the King Ranch, and had been shipped from Abilene, Kans., which was then the great objective of Texas trail herds,: and the first great shipping point i...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 115010306X
- ISBN 13 9781150103063
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages54
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