James C. Shaw - North from Texas: Incidents in the Early Life of a Range Cowman in Texas, Dakota, and Wyoming 1852-1883
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North From Texas : Incidents in the Early Life of a Range Cowman in Texas, Dakota, and Wyoming, 1852-1883
author
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Shaw, James C.; Brayer, Herbert Oliver.
publisher
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Texas A&M University Press
isbn10 | asin
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089096730X
print isbn13
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9780890967300
ebook isbn13
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9780585174662
language
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English
subject
Shaw, James C.--(James Clay),--1852-1943, Ranchers--West (U.S.)--Biography, Ranch life--West (U.S.)--History--19th century, Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.)--Social life and customs.
publication date
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1996
lcc
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F596.S4 1996eb
ddc
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978/.033/092
subject
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Shaw, James C.--(James Clay),--1852-1943, Ranchers--West (U.S.)--Biography, Ranch life--West (U.S.)--History--19th century, Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.)--Social life and customs.
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Brands Key
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North from Texas
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James C. Shaw From a daguerreotype taken about 1868 in Texas
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North from Texas
Incidents in the Early Life of a Range Cowman in Texas, Dakota, and Wyoming 1852-1883
James C. Shaw
Edited by Herbert O. Brayer
Illustrated by David T. Vernon
Texas A&M University Press College Station
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First Texas A&M University Press edition, 1996 Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 96 5 4 3 2 1
Originally privately published in 1931 as Pioneering in Texas and Wyoming: Incidents in the Life of James C. Shaw; second edition published in 1952 by Branding Iron Press, Evanston, Illinois
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shaw, James C. (James Clay), 1852-1943. North from Texas : incidents in the early life of a range cowman in Texas, Dakota, and Wyoming, 1852-1883 / by James C. Shaw; edited by Herbert O. Brayer; illustrated by David T. Vernon. p. cm. Previously published: Evanston, Ill. : Branding Iron Press, 1952. ISBN 0-89096-730-x 1. Shaw, James C. (James Clay), 1852-1943 2. Ranchers West (U.S.)Biography. 3. Ranch lifeWest (U.S.) History-19th century. 4. Frontier and pioneer life-West (U.S.) 5. West (U.S.)Social life and customs. I. Brayer, Herbert Oliver. II. Title. F596.S4 1996 978'.033'092dc20 96-3103 [B] CIP
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Introduction
It was one of those hot, dusty, August afternoons when the grasshoppers seemed to rise in a cloud at every step and arc aimlessly away in short parabolas. The sparse gramma and bunch grass was already brown, and the old Wyoming cattleman bent down and pulled a tuff. Unconsciously he placed one blade between his brown-stained teeth. "Here," he held out several stems to me. "Too blamed dry. By this time it ought to be twice as high. This drought is one of the worst I can remember. When I first came to this country the wild hay was knee high in the bottoms, and along the plains the grass was dense and our cattle seemed to get more strength and weight from it than they do from the grasses we grow today." He brushed a brazen 'hopper off the brim of his grey Stetson. "This was the real cattle empire and we had ''cattle kings" from one end of the range to the other. We raise better beef today, but the ranching business is entirely different from the range industry. I don't regret that part of the change, but with the old days went the greatest aggregation of cattlemen this country has ever known"Tesche" Teschemacher, Fred de Billier, Will Guthrie, the Swans (Alex, "Black" Tom, and "Red" Tom), Moreton Frewen and his brother Dick, Francis Warren, Heck Reel, John Kendrick, Joe Carey, John Clay, Henry Sturgis, Fred Hesse, Billy Irvine, and many others. Yes, and as long as there is a western cattle industry the names of such Texans as Murdo McKenzie, Charles Goodnight, John Adair, Al Boyce and Dick Head will rank high as pioneers
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in this business of producing beef." We watched the devil-wind dissolve in the distant haze. As the old cattleman climbed back into the automobile, Walter Prescott Webb's significant summary of the cattle industry in America seemed etched across the sun-bathed expanse of burned grass,
The East did a large business on a small scale; The West did a small business magnificently.
James Clay Shaw was neither a "cattle king" nor even a "cattle baron". He was, in fact, a typical representative of the ranching era which succeeded the breakup of the spectacular million dollar cattle companies and the disappearance of the "cattle kings" from the northern ranges. Following the winter debacle of 1886-1887, a majority of the larger companies were forced into liquidation, a movement further augmented by the disastrous Johnson County War and the paralyzing depression of 1893. Throughout the cow country small ranchers, many of them former cowboys and employees of the once dominate range companies, founded small ranching operations based upon acceptancemore or less grudginglyof the relatively new elements in the old industry: fenced ranges and pastures, winter feeding, improved breeding, range conservation and water resources development.
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