Ranching and the American West: A History in Documents

ISBN-13: 9781554814817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021

Susan Nance

Spis treści

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chronology
  Part 1: Enter Horses and Cattle
  • 1. Pierre Marie François Pagès describes cattle and horse behavior and husbandry in the region of San Antonio: Travels Round the World, in the Years 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 (1791)
  • 2. George Catlin reports on Indigenous peoples and their horses: Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians (1844)
  • 3. Image group: George Catlin’s paintings “Wild Horses at Play,” “Catching the Wild Horse,” “Buffalo Hunt, Chase” (1845)
  • 4. Thomas James describes horse markets of the 1810s: Three Years among the Indians and Mexicans (1846)
  • 5. Nat Love tells a tall story about his 1877 capture by the Akimel O’odham (Pima): The Life and Adventures of Nat Love (1907)
  • 6. Image group: Apsáalooke/Crow Tribe members and their horses (ca. 1898–1912)
  • Discussion Questions/Writing Prompts
  Part 2: Beef Bonanza
  • 7. A Geographically Correct County Map of the States Traversed by the Atchison Topeka and the Santa Fé Railroad and Its Connections (ca. 1880)
  • 8. James Sanks Brisbin promotes the cattle business: Beef Bonanza; or, How to Get Rich on the Plains, Cattle Growing, Sheep Farming, Horse Raising and Dairying in the West (1881)
  • 9. Andy Adams on young male aspirations to the cowboy life: The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days (1903)
  • 10. Owen Wister describes cowboys in the voice of an eastern visitor: The Virginian (1902)
  • 11. Charles A. Siringo on the abuse of range horses: A Texas Cow Boy; or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (1886)
  • 12. Bent County Cattle and Horse Growers Association, Brand Book of Colorado cattle and horse brand diagrams (1885)
  • 13. The Cheyenne Daily Leader (Wyoming) reports on the killings of Ella Watson and Jim Averell: “A Double Lynching” (23 July 1889)
  • 14. Image group: Cowboys and ranching people (1895–1935)
    • A. The cowboy myth, part 1: Frederick Remington, “The Bronco Buster” (1895)
    • B. Black cowboys at Negro State Fair, Bonham, Texas (ca. 1911–15)
    • C. Charles Belden cowboy photographs
    • D. Cowboys, cowgirls, and ranchers
    • E. The cowboy myth, part 2: “Working Cowboy” (1934)
  • Discussion Questions/Writing Prompts
  Part 3: Fattening, Shipping, Slaughtering, Selling
  • 15. Image group: Abilene, Kansas, and the early cattle trade from Joseph McCoy’s Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest (1874)
  • 16. Joseph McCoy explains land, cattle fattening, and packing in Kansas: Historic Sketches (1874)
  • 17. Philadelphia Times reporter describes cattle lands of South Dakota in a Texas newspaper: “In the Bad Lands,” Galveston Daily News (27 July 1884)
  • 18. The Chicago Tribune on “Cruelty to Cattle” at stockyards and during transport, with rebuttal by a stockyard promoter (1887)
  • 19. The “cowboy artist” Charles M. Russell’s Waiting for a Chinook (1886)
  • 20. Edward Abbott recounts winter range work during the Big Die-Up: We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher (1939)
  • 21. Image group: Consumers and beef
    • A. Swift & Company Packers, Union Stockyards, Chicago, trade card (1893)
    • B. Livestock pens of “The great Union Stock Yards, the greatest Live Stock Market in the World, Chicago” (1903)
    • C. Corrals and slaughterhouse at the Crow Agency Reservation, Montana (1905)
    • D. D.D. Collins Meat Counter, Washington, DC (late 1910s)
    • E. “New! Self-Serve Meats Make Shopping Quicker, Easier,” DuPont Cellophane advertisement (1949)
  • Discussion Questions/Writing Prompts
  Part 4: Twentieth-Century Ranch Life, Imagined and Real
  • 22. “Old Smith County Song,” Smith County Pioneer (1914)
  • 23. Image group: Western style and modern consumerism (1900–60)
    • A. “Typical Cowboys waiting their turn at the Bucking Contest” postcard (ca. 1900)
    • B. “Fancy Cowboy Bit and Spur Outfit” advertisement, The Billboard (2 October 1915)
    • C. “Some Chickens?” postcard featuring female rodeo performers (1921)
    • D. Tom Mix and Tony “The Wonder Horse” theatrical release film poster for The Drifter (1929)
    • E. Levi’s advertisement, “Fit for Action,” Rodeo Sports News (1957)
    • F. Rodeo day photographs by Russell Lee and Marion Post Walcott (1939–41)
  • 24. Ranching entrepreneur Harold L. Oppenheimer explains the business of cattle: Cowboy Economics: Rural Land as an Investment (1966)
  • 25. Judy Blunt remembers the gender politics of mid-century family ranching businesses, Breaking Clean (2002)
  • 26. Hispanic men and women explain vaquero and ranch work at a famous ranch in south Texas: Voices of the Wild Horse Desert: Vaquero Families of the King and Kenedy Ranches (1997)
  • 27. Image group: Buckaroos in Paradise—the ethnography of ranching in 1970s (1978–80)
  • Discussion Questions/Writing Prompts
  Part 5: The Cultures and Politics of Horses
  • 28. Fay E. Ward explains cowboy mustanging techniques: The Cowboy at Work (1958)
  • 29. Image group: Gus Bundy’s photographs of wild horse round-ups in Nevada (1946–51)
  • 30. Velma Johnston (a.k.a. “Wild Horse Annie”) testifies in Washington, DC, about airplane and truck mustang round-ups (1959)
  • 31. Emil Her Many Horses (Oglala Lakota) talks about Lakota history and her views about horses: “Remembering Lakota Ways” (2006)
  • 32. Image: Oglala Lakota beaded horse mask (ca. 1904)
  • 33. Wyoming rancher argues against no-kill policies for wild horses living on public lands: “Wild Horse Extremists Obscure Real-World Solutions,” High Country News (2017)
  • 34. Image: Mustangs at Wild Horse Sanctuary, near Shingletown, California (2012)
  • Discussion Questions/Writing Prompts
  Part 6: Range and Cattle Controversies
  • 35. Environmental scientist Dana L. Yensen discusses “The 1900 Invasion of Alien Plants into Southern Idaho”: Great Basin Naturalist (1981)
  • 36. Bureau of Land Management, Federal Public Land Surface and Subsurface Map (ca. 2005)
  • 37. Denzel and Nancy Ferguson criticize cattle grazing contracts: Sacred Cows at the Public Trough (1983)
  • 38. Rancher Linda Hasselstrom explains her environmental ethics: Between Grass and Sky: Where I Work and Live (2005)
  • 39. Image: Eat Beef: Plumas Sierras Cattlewomen sign, California (2012)
  • 40. Table: Oxford University and thinktank Agroscope on “New Estimates of the Environmental Cost of Food” (2018)
  • 41. Facebook status update, Northern Colorado Animal Save (2018)
  • 42. American Cowboy magazine celebrates the family ranch: “Ranching Legacies: Profiles in Persistence” (2008)
  • Discussion Questions/Writing Prompts

  Glossary of Key Terms

• Select Bibliography
• Permissions Acknowledgements