Old Deseret Live Stock Company : a stockman's memoir /

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In the high country of the northern Wasatch Mountains, lies what is left of one of the West's largest ranches. Deseret Live Stock Company was reputed at various times to be the largest private landholder in Utah and the single biggest producer of wool in the world. The ranch began as a sheep op...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Frischknecht, W. Dean
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2008.
©2008
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Frischknecht, W. Dean.
Deseret Live Stock Company > History.
Deseret Live Stock Company.
Sheep ranchers > Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho) > Biography.
Ranch life > Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho)
Éleveurs de moutons > Wasatch, Monts (Utah et Idaho) > Biographies.
Vie au ranch > Wasatch, Monts (Utah et Idaho)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Animal Husbandry.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Ranch life.
Sheep ranchers.
Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho) > Biography.
Wasatch, Monts (Utah et Idaho) > Biographies.
United States > Wasatch Range.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • 1. Expanding horizons
  • 2. Shearing
  • 3. The high and glorious summer range
  • 4. Great trail drives
  • 5. Shaping up for winter and shipping to Skull Valley
  • 6. Skull Valley
  • 7. It happened during breeding season
  • 8. Old-time range strategy
  • 9. Lambing
  • 10. Western hospitality
  • 11. A new addition
  • 12. Timely moves
  • 13. The big snow
  • 14. Approaching disaster
  • 15. Looking up
  • 16. A great recovery
  • 17. All in the day's work
  • 18. Moving up
  • 19. The best of times
  • 20. The dugway withdrawal
  • 21. Major changes
  • 22. End of an era
  • 23. Bad news
  • 24. Life's big decisions
  • 25. Transitions.

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