| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 317 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue: Five Days in August; Part I. The Open Land; 1. Gray Ocean of Sagebrush; 2. The Exploitation Pageant; 3. Left-Hand Trail to Hell; 4. Texas Cattle and Cattlemen; Part II. The Land Acquired; 5. Buy, Beg, Borrow, or Steal a Ranch; 6. John Sparks: Capital, Credit, and Courage; 7. White Winter: White Hills of Bones; 8. Water: The Finite Resource; Part III. The Land in Transition; 9. Making Hay in the Great Basin; 10. From Dugouts to Cattle Empires |
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11. Herefords in the Sagebrush12. Horses, Tame and Wild in the Sagebrush; Part IV. The Land Answers; 13. The Passing of the Old Guard; Epilogue; Notes; Equivalency Name Table; Index; About the Authors |
| Notes |
Originally published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©1985 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-301) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sparks, John, 1843-1908.
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Harrell, Jasper, 1830-1901.
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Harrell, Jasper, 1830-1901 fast |
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Sparks, John, 1843-1908 fast |
| Subject |
Beef cattle -- Great Basin -- History -- 19th century
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Ranchers -- Great Basin -- History -- 19th century
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Ranchers -- Great Basin -- Biography
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Ranch life -- Great Basin -- History -- 19th century
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Range ecology -- Great Basin -- History -- 19th century
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Grazing -- Environmental aspects -- Great Basin -- History -- 19th century
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
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Beef cattle
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Grazing -- Environmental aspects
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Ranch life
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Ranchers
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Range ecology
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Great Basin -- History -- 19th century
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| Subject |
United States -- Great Basin
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sparks, B. Abbott, 1919-
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| ISBN |
0874175879 |
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9780874175875 |
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0874175038 |
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9780874175035 |
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