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Book North American Cattle ranching Frontiers

Download or read book North American Cattle ranching Frontiers written by Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reinterpretation of how ranching evolved in the New World is broad, including discussions of grazing and foraging and their relation to vegetation and climate - that is, cultural ecology - cultural diffusion, and local innovation. Above all, Jordan emphasizes place and region, illustrating the great variety of ranching practices.

Book A Field Guide to Cows

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  • Author : John Pukite
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1998-05-01
  • ISBN : 0140273883
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book A Field Guide to Cows written by John Pukite and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Field Guide to Cows, John Pukite provides all the facts-so even the novice can identify and get to know America's fifty-two breeds of cattle. Every entry in this entertaining yet completely usable book features an illustration that highlights each breed's most easily identifiable traits, such as coloration pattern and body shape. The book includes a checklist of breeds so the die-hard cow watcher can keep track of sightings, a list of essential garb and gear for cow watching, a glossary of terms, a listing of breeder associations, and more. Fascinating cow trivia is interspersed throughout. Informative, amazing, and amusing, A Field Guide to Cows is the indispensable companion for would-be cow tippers, farmers, city folk, agriculturalists, interstate drivers, 4-H'ers, vacationing families, and everyone who likes to moo at cows. Cow Facts There are approximately 350 squirts in a gallon of milk Old cows in India have their own nursing homes From 1866 to 1895 cowboys drove about 10,000,000 cattle out of Texas

Book Cattle Colonialism

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  • Author : John Ryan Fischer
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2015-08-31
  • ISBN : 146962513X
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Cattle Colonialism written by John Ryan Fischer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor: cows. The creation of native cattle cultures, represented by the Indian vaquero and the Hawaiian paniolo, demonstrates that California Indians and native Hawaiians adapted in ways that allowed them to harvest the opportunities for wealth that these unfamiliar biological resources presented. But the imposition of new property laws limited these indigenous responses, and Pacific cattle frontiers ultimately became the driving force behind Euro-American political and commercial domination, under which native residents lost land and sovereignty and faced demographic collapse. Environmental historians have too often overlooked California and Hawai'i, despite the roles the regions played in the colonial ranching frontiers of the Pacific World. In Cattle Colonialism, John Ryan Fischer significantly enlarges the scope of the American West by examining the trans-Pacific transformations these animals wrought on local landscapes and native economies.

Book American Cattle

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  • Author : Lewis Falley Allen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1875
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 558 pages

Download or read book American Cattle written by Lewis Falley Allen and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Field Guide to Cattle

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  • Author : Valerie Porter
  • Publisher : Voyageur Press
  • Release : 2008-02-15
  • ISBN : 1616739525
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book The Field Guide to Cattle written by Valerie Porter and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-color, illustrated pocket guide to North American cattle, this handy book profiles more than 60 breeds of beef, dairy, and draft cattle. Whether you are farming 50 head of cattle or raising one cow--or simply want to learn about where your milk and meat come from--this invaluable resource will tell you everything you need to know. The field guide offers a wealth of information, from practical tips for communicating with bulls and reading a cows body language to the history and science behind crossbreeding and herd instincts. Mooing, milking, and calving; horns, bovine digestion, and the difference between dairy wedge, beef block, and draft shoulders--these topics and many more are covered in depth for breeds as familiar as Holstein, Hereford, Angus, and Jersey and as rare as Florida Cracker and Randall Lineback. With its interesting facts, 150 color photographs, glossary, breed classification table, and resource list, The Field Guide to Cattle is the essential guidebook to North Americas cattle breeds.

Book Welfare Ranching

Download or read book Welfare Ranching written by George Wuerthner and published by Foundations for Deep Ecology 2. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book shows the real West, not the one seen in postcards or imagined from romantic movies and novels. With photographs and essays, it shows not only the most shocking cases of overgrazing, but also the subtle changes that signal ecological disruption on a massive scale. Welfare Ranching explains the cultural and historical causes of the wasting of the West and offers a vision of the renewal that is possible if citizens are willing to demand that their government shift land management priorities to serving the public and natural good, rather than facilitating private gain. Ultimately, this book points the way to the greatest opportunity yet remaining for ecological restoration and wildlife protection in this country."--BOOK JACKET.

Book American Cattle

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  • Author : Lewis F. Allen
  • Publisher : Scholarly Resources, Incorporated
  • Release : 1973-09-01
  • ISBN : 9780842014717
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book American Cattle written by Lewis F. Allen and published by Scholarly Resources, Incorporated. This book was released on 1973-09-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies

Download or read book Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies written by J. Terrence McCabe and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the ecology, history, and politics of land use among the Turkana pastoral people in Northern Kenya Based on sixteen years of fieldwork among the pastoral Turkana people, McCabe examines how individuals use the land and make decisions about mobility, livestock, and the use of natural resources in an environment characterized by aridity, unpredictability, insecurity, and violence. The Turkana are one of the world's most mobile peoples, but understanding why and how they move is a complex task influenced by politics, violence, historical relations among ethnic groups, and the government, as well as by the arid land they call home. As one of the original members of the South Turkana Ecosystem Project, McCabe draws on a wealth of ecological data in his analysis. His long-standing relationship with four Turkana families personalize his insights and conclusions, inviting readers into the lives of these individuals, their families, and the way they cope with their environment and political events in daily life. J. Terrence McCabe is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Book Cattle Country

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  • Author : Kathryn Cornell Dolan
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2021-06
  • ISBN : 1496218647
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Cattle Country written by Kathryn Cornell Dolan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the nineteenth century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped onto society’s larger struggles with colonization, environmentalism, U.S. identity, ethnicity, and industrialization.

Book American Kerry and Dexter Cattle Herd Book

Download or read book American Kerry and Dexter Cattle Herd Book written by American Kerry and Dexter Cattle Club and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 14 Cows for America

Download or read book 14 Cows for America written by Carmen Agra Deedy and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestseller recounts the true story of the touching gift bestowed on the US by the Maasai people in the wake of the September 11 attacks. In June of 2002, a mere nine months since the September 11 attacks, a very unusual ceremony begins in a far-flung village in western Kenya. An American diplomat is surrounded by hundreds of Maasai people. A gift is about to be bestowed upon the American men, women, and children, and he is there to accept it. The gift is as unexpected as it is extraordinary. Hearts are raw as these legendary Maasai warriors offer their gift to a grieving people half a world away. Word of the gift will travel newswires around the globe, and for the heartsick American nation, the gift of fourteen cows emerges from the choking dust and darkness as a soft light of hope―and friendship. With stunning paintings from Thomas Gonzalez, master storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy (in collaboration with Naiyomah) hits all the right notes in this elegant story of generosity that crosses boundaries, nations, and cultures.

Book Cattle Kingdom

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  • Author : Christopher Knowlton
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2017-05-30
  • ISBN : 0544369971
  • Pages : 469 pages

Download or read book Cattle Kingdom written by Christopher Knowlton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The 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!” — 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. “Knowlton 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.” — Wall Street Journal “Knowlton deftly balances close-ups and bird’s-eye views. We learn countless details . . . More important, we learn why the story played out as it did.” — New York Times Book Review “The best one-volume history of the legendary era of the cowboy and cattle empires in thirty years.” — True West

Book Great American Cattle Trails

Download or read book Great American Cattle Trails written by Harry Sinclair Drago and published by New York : Dodd, Mead. This book was released on 1965 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lazy B

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  • Author : Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
  • Release : 2003-04-08
  • ISBN : 0812966732
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Lazy B written by Sandra Day O'Connor and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003-04-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of Sandra Day O’Connor’s family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is today: the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and one of the most powerful women in America. “A charming memoir about growing up as sturdy cowboys and cowgirls in a time now past.”—USA Today In this illuminating and unusual book, Sandra Day O’Connor tells, with her brother, Alan, the story of the Day family, and of growing up on the harsh yet beautiful land of the Lazy B ranch in Arizona. Laced throughout these stories about three generations of the Day family, and everyday life on the Lazy B, are the lessons Sandra and Alan learned about the world, self-reliance, and survival, and how the land, people, and values of the Lazy B shaped them. This fascinating glimpse of life in the Southwest in the last century recounts an important time in American history, and provides an enduring portrait of an independent young woman on the brink of becoming one of the most prominent figures in America.

Book American Cattle

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  • Author : Lewis Allen
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-07-04
  • ISBN : 9781548604226
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book American Cattle written by Lewis Allen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special reprint edition of "American Cattle" was written by Lewis F. Allen, and first published in 1868. It is a truly valuable antiquarian text. Some of the topics covered by Allen include The Climate and Soils of North America, History of American Cattle, Improved Breeds of Cattle, Middle-Horned Cattle, The Herefords History, The Cattle of Scotland, Channel Island Cattle, What is the Best Breed of Cattle?, The Anatomical and Economical Points of Cattle, and more. Also features wonderful antique illustrations of some of the breeds of cattle he discusses. This rare text will be a great asset to the libraries of all who are interested in the history of the US Cattle Industry, or Agricultural history in general. IMPORTANT NOTES: Please read BEFORE buying! THIS BOOK IS A REPRINT. IT IS NOT AN ORIGINAL COPY. This book is a reprint edition and is a perfect facsimile of the original book. It is not set in a modern typeface and has not been digitally rendered. As a result, some characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections, blurring, or minor shadows in the page background. This book appears exactly as it did when it was first printed.

Book AMERICAN CATTLE

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  • Author : LEWIS F. ALLEN
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781033644225
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book AMERICAN CATTLE written by LEWIS F. ALLEN and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Red Meat Republic

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  • Author : Joshua Specht
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-10-06
  • ISBN : 0691209189
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Red Meat Republic written by Joshua Specht and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with cattle bred on ranches in the rural West, slaughtered in Chicago, and consumed in the nation's rapidly growing cities. Red Meat Republic tells the remarkable story of the violent conflict over who would reap the benefits of this new industry and who would bear its heavy costs"--