"The best 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 of The 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 Kingdom reveals 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. This is a revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made.
"Cattle Kingdom is 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 Kingdom is The Great Plains by way of The 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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