02908cam a2200313 4500 527101812 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780544369979 0544369971 B01I4FPNRC Amazon a3e378e8-26da-4cc6-b53b-64e4359da945 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2854374 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Knowlton, Christopher. Cattle Kingdom [Libby eBook] : The Hidden History of the Cowboy West. HMH Books, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 22MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 21MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><i>"The</i> 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!" — <b>Douglas Brinkley,</b> author of <i>The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America</i><br /> The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. <i>Cattle Kingdom</i> 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. <i>This</i> is a revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made.<br /> "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 . . . <i>Cattle Kingdom</i> is <i>The Great Plains</i> by way of <i>The Big Short</i>." — <b><i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br /> "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." — <b><i>New York Times Book Review</i></b><br /> "The best one-volume history of the legendary era of the cowboy and cattle empires in thirty years." — <b><i>True West</i></b></p>. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a3e378e8-26da-4cc6-b53b-64e4359da945&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a3e378e8-26da-4cc6-b53b-64e4359da945&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a3e378e8-26da-4cc6-b53b-64e4359da945&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)