Christopher Knowlton

Cattle Kingdom (eBook, ePUB)

The Hidden History of the Cowboy West

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Thebest all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!" -Douglas Brinkley,The New York Times-bestselling author ofThe Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed.Cattle Kingdomreveals how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We meet a diverse cast, from cowboy Teddy Blue to failed rancher and future president Teddy Roosevelt.Thisis a revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made. "Cattle Kingdomis the smartly told account of rampant capitalism making its home-however destructive and decidedly unromantic-on the range.... [A] fresh and winning perspective." -The Dallas Morning News "Knowlton writes well about all the fun stuff: trail drives, rambunctious cow towns, gunfights and range wars . . . [He] enlists all of these tropes in support of an intriguing thesis: that the romance of the Old West arose upon the swelling surface of a giant economic bubble . . .Cattle KingdomisThe Great Plainsby way ofThe Big Short." -Wall Street Journal "Knowlton deftly balances close-ups and bird's-eye views. We learn countless details . . . More important, we learn why the story played out as it did." -The New York Times Book Review "The best one-volume history of the legendary era of the cowboy and cattle empires in thirty years." -True West "Vastly informative." -Library Journal "Absorbing." -Publishers Weekly

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780544369979
• Artikelnr.: 47253667

Autorenporträt

CHRISTOPHER KNOWLTON is the author of Cattle Kingdom and a former staff writer and London bureau chief for Fortune magazine. He spent fifteen years on Wall Street, most of them as president of Knowlton Brothers, Inc., an investment management firm. He is a trustee of the Teton Raptor Center and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. He and his wife, Pippa, live in Jackson, Wyoming.