by Mari Sandoz
Spanish-American War, 463
Spanish fever. See Texas fever
Sparrow, Joe, 288, 289, 290
Spring Creek Gulch, hanging at, 341, 344
Spur Ranch, 420-24, 463, 465
Staked Plains, 14, 46, 80, 81, 93, 159, 179, 180, 212, 213, 215, 258, 317; and Capitol lands, 303; cattle frontier, 296
Stampede, of buffaloes, 92-93; of steers, 39, 109
Standard Cattle Co., 358, 379, 400, 438
Standifer, 421, 422, 423, 424
Stanley, Dick, 496
Starr, Ed, 396, 400
Steamboat (horse), 496
Steers, 37, 38, 49, 50, 51, 52, 67, 84, 85, 86, 88, 101, 243-44, 461; and buffalo country, 92-93; bulldog-ging, 492; to Confederacy, 53; prices, 39, 43, 80, 91, 95, 136, 237, 241, 257, 325, 472, 479; stampedes, 39, 109; tough meat, 49; See also Cattle; Herds
Sterling. John, 131, 132
Stevens, Bob, 188
Stevens, Bud, 468, 469
Stilbestrol, in feed mix, 473
Stock Growers Journal, 401
Story, Nelson, 94
Stuart, Granville, 267, 268, 279, 459, 500
Sturgis, Thomas, 269
Suggs (Wyo.), and shooting by Negro troops, 397
Sun, Tom, 340, 342, 358
Supreme Court, decision against Missouri quarantine law, 154
Swan, Alex, 337, 357, 476, 481, 494
Swan, Tom, 357
Swan Land and Cattle Co., Ltd., 246, 269, 398, 402, 434, 462, 464, 477
Sweetwater (Texas), 147, 184
Sweetwater (Wyo.), 331, 332, 334, 338, 340, 342, 345, 351, 356, 396
Sweetwater Land and Improvement Co., 338
Swift (packer), 463, 482
Tafoya, 212, 215
Taft, William H., 463, 478
Tait, J. S., 239
Tascosa (Texas), 181, 183, 186, 302, 313, 318, 320
Tate, Dave, 434, 435, 439, 444
Taylor, Abner, 299, 300, 309, 317, 318, 320, 321, 325
Teschemacher, H. E., 358, 376, 399
Texas, 11, 13, 14, 28, 30, 36, 49, 50, 99, 142, 143; Anglos, 30, 32, 39; black cattle, 33; blizzard of 1957, 484-85; British ranches, 244, 245, 246, 247; carpetbaggers, 65, 79, 80, 207; Coronado's herd into, 9; drouth, 262, 270, 317; at end of Confederacy, 54, 55; fertility of cattle, 272; first anti-trust law, 323; Great White Ruin, 261, 265; Herefords, 185, 186; Indians, 11, 44-47, 80, 91, 95, 96, 213, 214; missions, 11, 12, 15, 44-45; markets, (1850's), 48, 49; number of herds trailed north, 294; ranches around missions, 12; Rawhide State, 64, 95; Republic, 32. 47, 58, 220; settlement, 31f., 34, 47; joins Union, 35, 41; wild cattle 15ff., 30; yellow rose of, 143
Texas fever, 68, 111ff., 136, 161, 162, 184, 185, 255, 272, 273, 276, 280; financial losses to, 282
Texas Kid, 366, 367, 369, 382, 400
Texas Land and Cattle Co., Ltd., 245
Texas Livestock Association, 283
"Texians," 32, 39, 220, 350; reputation for pursuit, 40
Thompson, Ben, 118, 119, 121, 124, 125, 130, 131, 132, 155, 163
Thompson. Billy, 118, 119, 130, 131, 132, 151, 152, 163
Ticks, on cattle, 113, 460, 461, 472, 473
Tilden, Samuel J., 139, 255
Tisdale, Allison, 354, 385, 400
Tisdale, Bob, 350, 352, 353, 354, 355, 358, 359, 374
Tisdale, J. N. (Jack), 358, 362, 366, 371, 374, 378, 386, 387
Tisdale, Johnny (settler), 352-55, 370; son of, 402
Tolland Co., 330, 346
Tombstone (Ariz.), 163
Trail City (Colo.), 285, 287, 288, 289, 290, 293
Trinity River, 12, 59, 48, 51, 212, 216
Tule ranch, 183, 186
Turkey Track, 466, 467
Turner, Turk, 72, 74
Tuttle Dance Hall massacre, 128, 129
Two Bar Cattle Co., 494, 496
Tynam, 422
Union Cattle Co.. 269
Union Pacific Railroad, 55, 93, 98, 112, 114, 137, 194, 242
Union Stock Yards of Omaha, 476, 481, 482
Urus (Bos primigenius), 25, 24, 25, 28, 29, 101, 487
Vaca, de, Cabeza, 7, 8
Van Horn, Col., 378, 382, 385, 386, 388, 389, 390
Van Tassell, R. S., 357, 476
Vaqueros, 10, 15, 55, 64
Vest, Sen., 323, 324
Waco, 48, 50, 108, 109
Waggoner, Dan, 221
Waggoner, Thomas, 345, 346, 353
Wagner, 154, 155
Walker, Bill, 356, 366, 367, 374, 393, 395, 469, 470
Wall, Aaron, 198, 199, 202, 293
Ware, Capt., 35
Warren, Sen., 330, 355, 381, 386, 387, 452
Washington, D.C., 134, 139, 164, 214, 256, 280, 285, 287, 340, 379, 455, 448; as "Robber Baron," 420
Washington, D.C., Star, 355
Watkins, Coroner, 380, 390
Watson, Ella (Cattle Kate), 339-45, 355; father of, 343
Webster, Mayor, of Dodge City, 165, 168, 169
Wellman, George, 392, 393, 395, 396, 438
West, George W., 136, 270, 286
West, Sol, 156
Western Ranches, Ltd., 245, 464
Western Trail, 145, 151
Western Union Beef Co., 348, 359, 363, 395, 399, 400
Wheel, development of, 29
Whitcomb, Elias W., 334, 358, 360, 374, 389, 394, 401
White Faces, 141, 186, 269, 277
White River country, 141, 149, 452, 440, 441
Whitney, Sheriff, 131, 132, 151, 152
Wibaux, Pierre, 333, 452
Wichita, 128, 133, 134, 135, 136, 149, 318, 319
Wichita Indians, 13, 57
Wichita Mountain Wild Life Refuge, 487
Wild West Shows, 417, 490, 492-94
Williamson County (Texas), 68, 69, 74, 76, 115-16, 192, 201, 350
Willingham, Cape, 323
Wilson (packer), 463, 482
Wilson, Henry H., 345
Wilson, One-Arm, 97
Wilson administration, 463
Wire fences, 222, 255, 420; drift lines, 260; illegal enclosure of public domain, 433, 441-44; XIT, 303, 306
Wofford, 446
Wolcott, Frank, 330, 346, 347, 348, 355, 359-67, 369-76, 379-86, 389, 393; caught rustling, 400
Women, on ranches, 452-53
World War II, 482
Wright, Robert, 145, 162
Wyoming, 93, 94, 95, 98, 114, 126, 150, 185, 188, 191, 199, 209, 211, 226, 236, 238, 248, 250, 252, 263, 265, 280; Bay State ranches, 242; British ranches, 244, 246, 247, 334, 335; cattle state, 99, 242, 330; loss of cattle, 1887, 267; drouth, 262; fight for free range, 329; See Johnson County Invasion; lynching of Averill and Cattle Kate, 341-43, 437; rodeo, 493, 494; sagebrush, 254, 462; sheep, 253, 462
Wyoming Cattle Ranch Co., Ltd., 245
Wyoming Live Stock Commissioners, 336, 348, 349, 355-56, 359
Wyoming Stock Growers Assn., 209, 216, 224, 225, 227, 251, 269, 280, 329-32, 336-40, 347, 350-60, 381, 392-97, 400, 408, 414, 430; Tom Horn on payroll, 434
XIT, 305-21, 408, 419; New Order, 321ff.; size, 325, 420
Yellow Houses, 213, 313, 314, 315, 319, 320
Yellowstone country, 150, 158, 191, 251, 264, 325
Young, Porter, 332
Young Horse, 411, 413
Table of Contents
Author
Title Page
Copyright
INTRODUCTION
DEDICATION
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD
BOOK I. THE RELUCTANT IMMIGRANT CHAPTER 1. First Cow Upon the Plains
CHAPTER 2. Noble Ancestry
CHAPTER 3. The Cow Walks Again
BOOK II. INDIVIDUAL RANCH SPREADS CHAPTER 1. Some Dedicated Men
CHAPTER 2. Pulling for New Grass
CHAPTER 3. The Moving Trails
CHAPTER 4. The Indian Summer of Old Dodge
CHAPTER 5. Deepening Dedication
BOOK III. ORGANIZATIONS, CORPORATIONS,
AND BUGGY BOSSES CHAPTER 1. Disciples under the Oak and the Cottonwood
CHAPTER 2. The Bonanza
CHAPTER 3. The Big Die-Ups
CHAPTER 4. The National Trail
CHAPTER 5. Of The Giants—The XIT
BOOKS IV. PRIVATE EMPIRE CHAPTER 1. The Threat
CHAPTER 2. Stetsoned Crusanders
CHAPTER 3. Scattered to the Winds
CHAPTER 4. Cow Horse and Betting Blood
CHAPTER 5. Kings of the Fenced Rance
BOOK V. BEEF FACTOIES AND FESTIVALS CHAPTER 1. New Breed-
CHAPTER 2. Ritual and Restoration
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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