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Author Frischknecht, W. Dean.

Title Old Deseret Live Stock Company : a stockman's memoir / W. Dean Frischknecht
Published Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2008
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Description 1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations
Contents Prologue -- 1. Expanding horizons -- 2. Shearing -- 3. The high and glorious summer range -- 4. Great trail drives -- 5. Shaping up for winter and shipping to Skull Valley -- 6. Skull Valley -- 7. It happened during breeding season -- 8. Old-time range strategy -- 9. Lambing -- 10. Western hospitality -- 11. A new addition -- 12. Timely moves -- 13. The big snow -- 14. Approaching disaster -- 15. Looking up -- 16. A great recovery -- 17. All in the day's work -- 18. Moving up -- 19. The best of times -- 20. The dugway withdrawal -- 21. Major changes -- 22. End of an era -- 23. Bad news -- 24. Life's big decisions -- 25. Transitions
Summary In the high country of the northern Wasatch Mountains, lies what is left of one of the West's largest ranches. Deseret Live Stock Company was reputed at various times to be the largest private landholder in Utah and the single biggest producer of wool in the world. The ranch began as a sheep operation, but as it found success, it also ran cattle. Incorporated in the 1890s by a number of northern Utah ranchers who pooled their resources, the company was at the height of successful operations in the mid-twentieth century when a young Dean Frischknecht, bearing a recent degree in animal science
Notes Includes index
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Subject Frischknecht, W. Dean.
SUBJECT Frischknecht, W. Dean
Frischknecht, W. Dean fast
Subject Deseret Live Stock Company -- History
SUBJECT Deseret Live Stock Company fast
Subject Sheep ranchers -- Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho) -- Biography
Ranch life -- Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Ranch life
Sheep ranchers
SUBJECT Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho) -- Biography
Subject United States -- Wasatch Range
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780874217124
0874217121
0874217113
9780874217117
9781282445826
1282445820