TRAILS TO TEXAS : Southern Roots of Western Cattle Ranching

Jordan, Terry G.

ISBN 10: 0803225547 / ISBN 13: 9780803225541

Published by Univ of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NB, 1981

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Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Taupe linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fin. Illustrated ("A Cracker Cowboy", Frederick Remington) DJ/NF with closed tear to upper front by spine & faint creasings to upper backk; under mylar. Monograph of the system of open-range cattle ranching in the Great Plains written by 6th-generation Texan with ancestral roots among herders and ranchers, professor of geology, Terry G. Jordan. An analytical essay in cultural geography . a study of culture from a spatial and ecological point of view with attention to the interrelationship between "peopl;e as bearers of culture and the physical environment that houses them." The work traces the Anglo cattle-herding culture from South Carolina to Texas where it meets with Hispanic herdsmaen of skilled horsemanship.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TRAILS TO TEXAS : Southern Roots of Western Cattle Ranching
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NB
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803225547
• ISBN 13: 9780803225541
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Thus
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nature/Ecology/Environment/Conservation
  • History

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Synopsis

Examines the development of the cattle ranching culture of Texas during the nineteenth century and discusses the influence of South Carolina on the culture