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Teddy's Cattle Drive
Adventures on the trail as Teddy Abbott learns how to be a wrangler.
Cowboys and Cattle Drives
Describes a cattle drive on the Western Trail through diaries and letters written by fictional cowboys. Contains historical photographs of actual people and places. Discusses how cattle were driven from ranches in Texas to markets in Kansas and Nebraska in the decades following the Civil War.
Cowboys and Cattle Drives
Highlights the lives of four cowboys: Charlie Goodnight, James Cook, Tom Smith, and Will Rogers.
Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana
Dust and Determination After the Civil War, emancipated slaves who didn't want to pick cotton or operate an elevator headed west to find work and a new life. Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving drove two thousand longhorns across southern Texas blazing a trail to Bosque Redondo in New Mexico. In 1866, the new Goodnight-Loving Trail was crowded with cattle headed for a government market. By the 1870s, twenty-five percent of the over thirty-five thousand cowboys in the West were black. They were part of trail crews that drove more than twenty-seven million cattle on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, Western Trail, Chisholm Trail and Shawnee Trail. They were paid equally, and their skill and ability brought them earned respect and prestige. Author Nancy Williams recounts their lasting legacy.
Cattle Drive (eBook)
Cowboys riding their horses across the prairie taking huge herds of cattle to market, sleeping under the stars as coyotes howl in the night—it's a scene familiar to all and especially beloved by children. Almost all boys, and many girls, at some point in their young lives dream of being cowboys. But most don't have any idea how hard those cowboys had to work or what dangers and discomforts they faced along the trail. This book will help students put themselves in the place of the cowboy and learn some of the details behind the exciting life-style.
Texas Women on the Cattle Trails
Tells the stories of sixteen women who drove cattle up the trail from Texas during the last half of the nineteenth century.
Cowhands and Cattle Trails
Would you have enjoyed being a cattle rancher during the 1860s? How about a cowhand? Perhaps you'll find the answer in this book as you read about the history of the early cattle trails and the day-to-day life of a cowhand. Lasting only 28 years, the golden age of cattle drives remains one of the most exciting and adventurous chapters in the history of the United States!
The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds
"The need to preserve farm animal diversity is increasingly urgent, says the author of this definitive book on endangered breeds of livestock and poultry. Farmyard animals may hold critical keys for our survival, Jan Dohner warns, and with each extinction, genetic traits of potentially vital importance to our agricultural future or to medical progress are forever lost."--BOOK JACKET.
Cattle Drives, Moose Hunts, Blizzards, and Such
Lloyd’s daughters used to ask him, “Dad, what was it like when you were growing up?” Usually, the answer was quite extraordinary. Lloyd Byra grew up in a different era and a very different reality from that of most Canadians. These collected stories are his memories of growing up in a pioneering family, in one of the last homestead areas of the far north: BC’s Peace River Country. From his father’s dream of a better life for his family, through the chilling realities of northern winters, to the hardships of building a ranch on the Umbach Creek (formally Squaw Creek), these stories offer a glimpse into his life. Share in the dangers of that first moose hunt, the adventures of the cattle drives, and joys and triumphs found along the way.
