Up the Trail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Up the Trail write by Tim Lehman. This book was released on 2018-08-15. Up the Trail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did cattle drives come about—and why did the cowboy become an iconic American hero? Cattle drives were the largest, longest, and ultimately the last of the great forced animal migrations in human history. Spilling out of Texas, they spread longhorns, cowboys, and the culture that roped the two together throughout the American West. In cities like Abilene, Dodge City, and Wichita, buyers paid off ranchers, ranchers paid off wranglers, and railroad lines took the cattle east to the packing plants of St. Louis and Chicago. The cattle drives of our imagination are filled with colorful cowboys prodding and coaxing a line of bellowing animals along a dusty path through the wilderness. These sturdy cowhands always triumph over stampedes, swollen rivers, and bloodthirsty Indians to deliver their mighty-horned companions to market—but Tim Lehman’s Up the Trail reveals that the gritty reality was vastly different. Far from being rugged individualists, the actual cow herders were itinerant laborers—a proletariat on horseback who connected cattle from the remote prairies of Texas with the nation’s industrial slaughterhouses. Lehman demystifies the cowboy life by describing the origins of the cattle drive and the extensive planning, complicated logistics, great skill, and good luck essential to getting the cows to market. He reveals how drives figured into the larger story of postwar economic development and traces the complex effects the cattle business had on the environment. He also explores how the premodern cowboy became a national hero who personified the manly virtues of rugged individualism and personal independence. Grounded in primary sources, this absorbing book takes advantage of recent scholarship on labor, race, gender, and the environment. The lively narrative will appeal to students of Texas and western history as well as anyone interested in cowboy culture.
The U.P. Trail
The U.P. Trail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The U.P. Trail write by Zane Grey. This book was released on 1918. The U.P. Trail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Trail
Trail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trail write by David Pelham. This book was released on 2007-10-02. Trail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Follow the silvery trail through an enchanting maze of stunning pop-up landscapes that range from tranquil to mysterious to magical. This sparkling creation by multi-award-winning designer David Pelham will amaze and delight all who take the journey through this remarkable book.
The Trail is the Teacher
The Trail is the Teacher - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Trail is the Teacher write by Clay Bonnyman Evans. This book was released on 2020-08-15. The Trail is the Teacher available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An account of the author's 2016 thru-hike of the 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail.
Journeys North
Journeys North - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Journeys North write by Barney Scout Mann. This book was released on 2020-08-01. Journeys North available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North, legendary trail angel, thru hiker, and former PCTA board member Barney Scout Mann spins a compelling tale of six hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2007 as they walk from Mexico to Canada. This ensemble story unfolds as these half-dozen hikers--including Barney and his wife, Sandy--trod north, slowly forming relationships and revealing their deepest secrets and aspirations. They face a once-in-a-generation drought and early severe winter storms that test their will in this bare-knuckled adventure. In fact, only a third of all the hikers who set out on the trail that year would finish. As the group approaches Canada, a storm rages. How will these very different hikers, ranging in age, gender, and background, respond to the hardship and suffering ahead of them? Can they all make the final 60-mile push through freezing temperatures, sleet, and snow, or will some reach their breaking point? Journeys North is a story of grit, compassion, and the relationships people forge when they strive toward a common goal.
