Livestock Legacy

Livestock Legacy
Title Livestock Legacy PDF eBook
Author J'Nell L. Pate
Publisher
Pages 360
Release 1988
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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Describes the Fort Worth Stockyards which was the largest market in the Southwest. Active trading still continues there, but the heyday is passed.

New Mexico's Spanish Livestock Heritage

New Mexico's Spanish Livestock Heritage
Title New Mexico's Spanish Livestock Heritage PDF eBook
Author William W. Dunmire
Publisher UNM Press
Pages 245
Release 2013
Genre Domestic animals
ISBN 0826350895

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"This study of livestock and its history focuses not only on the impact of horses and cattle, but also the wide variety of animals that shaped life and culture in New Mexico for the Spaniards, Natives, and Anglos who lived in or settled the region"--

Livestock Legacy

Livestock Legacy
Title Livestock Legacy PDF eBook
Author J'Nell L. Pate
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1992-09-19
Genre History
ISBN 9780890965306

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Describes the Fort Worth Stockyards which was the largest market in the Southwest. Active trading still continues there, but the heyday is passed.

Tejano Legacy

Tejano Legacy
Title Tejano Legacy PDF eBook
Author Armando C. Alonzo
Publisher UNM Press
Pages 380
Release 1998
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780826318978

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A revisionist account of the Tejano experience in south Texas from its Spanish colonial roots to 1900.

Fort Worth

Fort Worth
Title Fort Worth PDF eBook
Author Harold Rich
Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
Pages 379
Release 2014-09-29
Genre History
ISBN 0806147180

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From its beginnings as an army camp in the 1840s, Fort Worth has come to be one of Texas’s—and the nation’s—largest cities, a thriving center of culture and commerce. But along the way, the city’s future, let alone its present prosperity, was anything but certain. Fort Worth tells the story of how this landlocked outpost on the arid plains of Texas made and remade itself in its early years, setting a pattern of boom-and-bust progress that would see the city through to the twenty-first century. Harold Rich takes up the story in 1880, when Fort Worth found itself in the crosshairs of history as the cattle drives that had been such an economic boon became a thing of the past. He explores the hard-fought struggle that followed—with its many stops, failures, missteps, and successes—beginning with a single-minded commitment to attracting railroads. Rail access spurred the growth of a modern municipal infrastructure, from paved streets and streetcars to waterworks, and made Fort Worth the transportation hub of the Southwest. Although the Panic of 1893 marked another setback, the arrival of Armour and Swift in 1903 turned the city’s fortunes once again by expanding its cattle-based economy to include meatpacking. With a rich array of data, Fort Worth documents the changes wrought upon Fort Worth’s economy in succeeding years by packinghouses and military bases, the discovery of oil and the growth of a notorious vice district, Hell’s Half Acre. Throughout, Rich notes the social trends woven inextricably into this economic history and details the machinations of municipal politics and personalities that give the story of Fort Worth its unique character. The first thoroughly researched economic history of the city’s early years in more than five decades, this book will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Fort Worth, urban history and municipal development, or the history of Texas and the West.

Exploring Our Livestock Heritage

Exploring Our Livestock Heritage
Title Exploring Our Livestock Heritage PDF eBook
Author American Minor Breeds Conservancy. Meeting
Publisher
Pages 88
Release 1988
Genre Livestock
ISBN

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Rodeo

Rodeo
Title Rodeo PDF eBook
Author Susan Nance
Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
Pages 309
Release 2020-04-23
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 080616705X

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"What would rodeo look like if we took it as a record, not of human triumph and resilience, but of human imperfection and stubbornness?” asks animal historian Susan Nance. Against the backdrop of the larger histories of ranching, cattle, horses, and the environment in the West, this book explores how the evolution of rodeo has reflected rural western beliefs and assumptions about the natural world that have led to environmental crises and served the beef empire. By unearthing behind-the-scenes stories of rodeo animals as diverse individuals, this book lays bare contradictions within rodeo and the rural West. For almost 150 years, westerners have used rodeo to symbolically reenact their struggles with animals and the land as uniformly progressive and triumphant. Nance upends that view with accounts of individual animals that reveal how diligently rodeo people have worked to make livestock into surrogates for the trials of rural life in the West and the violence in its history. Western horses and cattle were more than just props. Rodeo reclaims their lived history through compelling stories of anonymous roping steers and calves who inspired reform of the sport, such as the famed but abused bucker Steamboat, and the many broncs and bulls, famous or not, who unknowingly built an industry. Rodeo is a dangerous sport that reveals many westerners as people proudly tolerant of risk and violence, and ready to impose these values on livestock. In Rodeo: An Animal History, Nance pushes past standard histories and the sport’s publicity to show how rodeo was shot through with stubbornness and human failing as much as fortitude and community spirit.