Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West

Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West

â€œThe best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!â€Â â€” Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America

The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom reveals 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 meet a diverse cast, from cowboy Teddy Blue to failed rancher and future president Teddy Roosevelt. This is a revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made.

â€œKnowlton writes well about all the fun stuff: trail drives, rambunctious cow towns, gunfights and range wars . . . [He] enlists all of these tropes in support of an intriguing thesis: that the romance of the Old West arose upon the swelling surface of a giant economic bubble . . . Cattle Kingdom is The Great Plains by way of The Big Short.â€ â€” Wall Street Journal

â€œKnowlton deftly balances close-ups and birdâ€™s-eye views. We learn countless details . . . More important, we learn why the story played out as it did.â€ â€” New York Times Book Review

â€œThe best one-volume history of the legendary era of the cowboy and cattle empires in thirty years.â€ â€” True West
Country USA
Manufacturer Mariner Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2024-02-27
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Mariner Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2024-02-27
Format	Kindle eBook

Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West

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