Great Plains Cattle Empire

Great Plains Cattle Empire
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Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 0896723976
ISBN-13 : 9780896723979
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Book Synopsis Great Plains Cattle Empire by : Paul E. Patterson

Download or read book Great Plains Cattle Empire written by Paul E. Patterson and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work chronicles the establishment of the cattle industry in the Great Plains, spanning the years from the Civil War to World War II.John and Mahlon Thatcher were two of the many pioneers looking to begin a new life in the great open spaces of the West. In the 1860s, the brothers began a small mercantile in the town of Pueblo, Colorado. From a small safe in the corner of their newly created mercantile, the two Thatcher brothers founded what was to become the First National Bank of Pueblo, Colorado.Together with such legendary figures as Frank Bloom, Henry Cresswell, O. H. Perry Baxter, William Anderson, Burton Mossman, and Mahlon T. Everhart, they created a cattle empire—financing and directing the Bloom Land and Cattle Company, Diamond A Cattle Company, and the Hatchet Cattle Company. Their herds of cattle, horses and sheep ranged on some eleven million acres of land sprawling from New Mexico to Canada.


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