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Livestock Legacy: The Fort Worth Stockyards 1887-1987
by J'Nell L. Pate (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0890962774
- ISBN 13
- 9780890962770
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
College Station, TX.: Texas A&M University Press, 1988 Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX. 1988. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author on the half title page. This is book Number 27 in The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; slight soiling on the textblock fore edge from thumbing of pages. DJ: Very Good +; light sunfading to spine; slight bumping to head, tail, and tips; creases to front flap. Brown leatherette boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. 332 pp 8vo. On July 26, 1887 the Union Stock Yards Company received a charter to do business in an area just north of town that became known as Cowtown. The author writes of the early days of the cattle drives, the coming of packing plants, the railroads, and the decline that began in 1944. Her study is full of anecdotes about traders, packers, and shippers; analyzes the mistakes of the owners and managers; and evaluates the policies and practices of national moguls Armour and Swift. Overall this is a comprehensive history of Fort Worth. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016366
- Title
- Livestock Legacy: The Fort Worth Stockyards 1887-1987
- Author
- J'Nell L. Pate (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0890962774
- ISBN 13
- 9780890962770
- Publisher
- Texas A&M University Press
- Place of Publication
- College Station, TX.
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Fort Worth Texas, Cattle drives, Chisholm Trail, Kansas railheads, feedlots, stockyards, packing plants, Union Stock Yards Company, Cowtown, saloons, prostitution, drugs, cowboys, Swift and Armour, meat packing business, Chicago Markets, Fort Worth Livest
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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