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title	:	The Trampling Herd : The Story of the Cattle Range in America
author	:	Wellman, Paul Iselin.
publisher	:	University of Nebraska Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0803297238
print isbn13	:	9780803297234
ebook isbn13	:	9780585276991
language	:	English
subject	Cattle trade--United States--History, Ranches--United States--History.
publication date	:	1988
lcc	:	HD9433.U4W38 1988eb
ddc	:	338.1/76213/0973
subject	:	Cattle trade--United States--History, Ranches--United States--History.

Page 1 The Trampling Herd

Page 2 Other Books by Paul I. Wellman Available in Bison Book Editions DEATH IN THE DESERT: THE FIFTY YEARS' WAR FOR THE GREAT SOUTHWEST DEATH ON THE PRAIRIE: THE THIRTY YEARS' STRUGGLE FOR THE WESTERN PLAINS A DYNASTY OF WESTERN OUTLAWS

Page 3 The Trampling Herd The Story of the Cattle Range in America Paul I. Wellman Illustrations by F. Miller

Page 4 Copyright 1939 by Paul I. Wellman Copyright renewed 1967 by Paul I. Wellman, Jr. All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First Bison Book printing: 1988 Most recent printing indicated by the first digit below: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wellman, Paul Iselin, 18961966 The trampling herd: the story of the cattle range in America / Paul I. Wellman. p. cm. Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, c1939. Includes index. ISBN 0-8032-9723-8 (pbk.) 1. Cattle tradeUnited StatesHistory. 2. RanchesUnited StatesHistory. I. Title. HD9433.U4W38 1988 338.1'76213'0973dc19 CIP 88-5946 Reprinted by arrangement with Paul I. Wellman, Jr.

Page 5 To that scholar and gentleman and high authority on the history of Western America, Dr. Frederick C. Narr.

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Page 8 Among the many who have with generosity helped in the collecting of material and the preparation of this book, the author acknowledges an especial indebtedness to W. A. Cochel, notable authority on the cattle industry, and Dr. Frederick C. Narr, able student of Western history, both of whom read critically the manuscript and made invaluable suggestions; also to Kirke Mechem, secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, and Floyd Shoemaker, secretary of the Historical Society of Missouri, for placing the resources of their societies at his disposal; and to The Kansas City Star for the use of its invaluable archives on the cattle country.

Page 9 FOREWORD A prime difficulty in any attempt to tell the story of the cattle land of America lies in the inexplicitness of the borders both of territory and of time. Cattle are grown throughout the continent, and men handle them and, sometimes, profit from them. Yet to call Illinois or Virginia cow country would be a manifest ineptitude. There is, however, a vast and somewhat indefinite area which, almost vaguely, attaches itself to the life and period we know as Western. Western does not apply to California or the Pacific Northwest. It applies to the territory between the Pacific coastal ranges and the general north and south line established by the Missouri River. It includes the whole of the great arid interior basin, the deserts, the plains, the brush country, the plateaus, and the mountains. Pretty well it defines the original habitat of the buffalo, of the prairie dog, of the coyote, of the antelope and of the lobo wolf. And the Westerner? History indicates that the great population movements on this continent have been from East to West. The gold rush of '49 poured across interior America by way of the Santa F, Oregon, and Marcy trails. Later came the steady encroachment of settlementworking always from the East, gnawing bit by bit into the open range, eventually lapping over every bit of tillable soil not reserved arbitrarily by the government, and even turning with the plow the thin sod in areas which Nature had held only by a struggle and which, thus unbalanced, became desolate. On the other hand the population movement which filled the cattle country has been largely neglected by history. It was from the South to the North. Two hun-

Page 10 dred years were required by the East-West movement to occupy that part of the continent east of the Mississippi. Fifty years were needed for land emigration to finish preempting all the arable land west of the Mississippi. But it took only one decade and part of another for the cattlemen, streaming northward with their horn-spiked herds, to fill the great interior of the continent. And today the ways of living, the ideas, and even the talk of the range country still are predominantly Southern.

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