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Books on the Cattle Industry

Adams, Andy. The Cattle on a Thousand Hills. Fort Worth, Tex. from The Cattleman, October, 1942. 636.2 Ad17ca

Adams, Andy. The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days. Boston: and New York: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1903. 636.2 Ad17l 1903

Atherton, Louis. The Cattle Kings. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1961. 636.2 At44c

Breyer, Garnet and Herbert O. Brayer. American Cattle Trails, 1540-1900. Bayside, N.Y.: Western Range Cattle Industry Study, 1952. 636.2 B739a

Bright, Davilla. Foreigners and Foreign Capital in the Cattle Industry of the United States. University of Oklahoma, 1935. 636.2 B768

Brisbin, James S. The Beef Bonanza: Or, How to Get Rich on the Plains, Being a Description of Cattle Growing, Sheep-farming, Horse-raising, and Dairying in the West. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press. 1959. (new edition of 1881Lippincott publication). 636.2 B773b 1959.

Collector, Stephen. Law of the Range: Portraits of Old-time Brand Inspectors. Livingston, Mont.: Clark City Press. q920.078 C685l

Culley, John Henry. Cattle, Horses and Men of the Western Range. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1940. 636.2 C897c

Dale, Edward E. Cattle-raising on the Plains of North America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1964. 636.2 R419c 1964

Dale, Edward E. The Range Cattle Industry: Ranching on the Great Plains from 1865 to 1965. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1960. 636.2 D152r 1960

Dobie, Frank J. Cow People. Boston: Little Brown, 1964. 636.2 D654c 1964

Frink, Maurice. When Grass Was King: Contributions to the Western Range Cattle Industry Study. Boulder: University of Colorado Press. 636.2 F916w 1956

Haley, J. Evetts. Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1936. 636.2 H137c 1936

McCoy, Joseph G. Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest. Columbus, Ohio: Long's College Book Co. 1951. 636.2 M137h 1951

Osgood, Ernest Staples. The Day of the Cattlemen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1929. 636.2 )s24d 1929

Pelzer, Louis. The Cattlemen’s Frontier: A Record of the Trans-Mississippi Cattle Industry from Oxen trains to Pooling Companies, 1850 – 1890. Glendale, Arthur C. Clark Co., 1936. 636.2 P 369c 1936

Ridings, Sam P. The Chisholm Trail: A History of the World’s Greatest Cattle Trial, Together With a Description of the Persons, a Narrative of the Events, and Reminiscences Associated with the Same. Guthrie: Co-operative Publishing Co., 1936. 636.2 R437c 1936

Rollins, Philip Ashton. The Cowboy: His Characteristics, His Equipment, and His Part in the Development of the West. New York, C. Scribner’s Sons, 1922. 636.2 R656c 1922

Schlebecker, John T. Cattle Raising on the Plains, 1900-1961. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963. 636.2 Sch36c

Sonnichsen, C.L. Cowboys and Cattle Kings: Life on the Range Today. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1950. 636.2 So59c 1950

Steinel, Alvin T. History of Agriculture in Colorado. Fort Collins: The State Agricultural College. 1926. 630 St35h

Streeter, Floyd Benjamin. Prairie Trails and Cow Towns. Boston: Chapman & Grimes, 1936. 978.1 St83p 1936

Webb, Walter Prescott. The Great Plains. [Boston]: Ginn and Co., 1931. 978 W384tg 1931

Books on Ranching in Colorado                                                                                  TOP

Ball. Wilbur P. The Last Roundup: A History of the Early Cattle Roundups in Northern Weld County, Colorado. Fort Collins, Citizen Printing, 1991. 636.2 B21b

Calhoun, S.H. Colorado Stock Laws, Containing all the Laws of the State of Colorado which Apply to or in Any Way Affect the Live Stock Interests…also the By-laws, Constitution and Directory of the Colorado Cattle Grower’s Association. Denver: Daily Live Stock Record Print., 1892. 348.788 St62 1892

Everett, George G. Cattle Cavalcade in Central Colorado. Denver: Golden Bell Press, 636.2 Ev26c

Goff. Richard D. Century in the Saddle. Denver: Colorado Cattlemen’s Centennial Commission. 1967. 636.2 G556c

Lewis, Michael. Colorado’s Centennial Farms and Ranches: A Century of Seasons. Englewood: Westcliffe Pub., q978.0099 L 587co

Little, W. T. Roundup: A Story of 100 Years of the Cattle Industry in Fremont County, Colorado. Canon City?: Fremont Cattlemen's Association. c. 1966. 636.2 L729r

Menefee, George W. Cow Talk: The Memoirs of George W. Menefee, an Early Day Cattleman of the Southwest. Lottie Reddert, ed. [Dolores, Colo.: Dolores Star] 1976. 636.2 M524c

Townshend, R.B. A Tenderfoot in Colorado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. 978.806 T663 1968

Rivett, Joseph P. Ranch Life in the Rockies: United States Land and Mining Laws, the Game and Fish Laws, State Map of Colorado. Denver: Tremont Pub. Co. 636.2 R526

Whittemore, Loren R. An Illustrated History of Ranching in the Pike’s Peak Region. Colorado Springs: Dentan-Berkeland Print Co. , 1967. 636.2 W618I 1967

Agriculture

May, William J., Jr. The Great Western Sugarlands: The History of the Great Western Sugar Company and the Economic development of the Great Plains. New York: Garland Pub., 1982 338.76336 M451g

Thomle, Irwin. The Development Period in San Luis Valley Agriculture. Evanston, Northwestern University, 1949. q978.84 Sa53th