Describes cattle, sheep and dairy stock raising in Montana, Nebraska, Texas, and Colorado. Includes index, appendices, biographies, lists of names of ranchers in Gallatin County, Wyoming, and genealogies of important bulls.

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Excerpt from 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 Introductory; Preface; Cattle-Growing out West; The Land to the West of Us; The Great Grazing-Lands of the Plains - Increase of Population and Decrease of Cattle - Cattle-Kings of Nebraska and Wyoming - The Herds and Where they Graze; Great Lands and Great Owners; Ranches along the Platte River - Herds in Wyoming and Nebraska - Their Increase and Profits - Cattle-Kings - Great Stock-Drivers, who they are and how they Operate; Estimated Fortunes; Profits of Cattle-Raising in Nebraska - Manner of Managing Herds - Some Notable Ranches and the Profits; The Money to be Made; An Investment of $25,000 for Six Tears and the Probable Profits - The Same for Five Years - The Cattle-Supply About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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