Cowboys, gunslingers, and superpowered marshals dominate fictionalized accounts of the American West, but they were minor figures in the true history of the region. In The Cattle Kings, Lewis Atherton restores the leading role to the cattlemen--the genuine adventurers who opened the plains, built empires, and brought prosperity, law, and order to the West.
This classic history of the West tells the true stories of rugged cattlemen...
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