The Cattle Towns
Language: English
Published by Atheneum, New York, NY, 1973
- First Edition
- Softcover
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Atheneum, New York.1973. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated 3rd Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Atheneum Paperbacks #166. Book Condition: Very Good +; light rubbing to panels; light edgewear. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 383 pp 8vo. This book is the unromanticized and hitherto untold story of the citizens of five of the most important cattle trading centers in Kansas; Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and Caldwell from 1867 to 1885. The towns all courted the cattle business and the railroads and had to cope with all the evils it brought with it while still trying to promote respectability. This precipitated an internal struggle for economic power and political dominance to determine the futures of these towns. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Title
- The Cattle Towns
- Author
- Robert R. Dykstra
- Publisher
- Atheneum, New York, NY
- Publication year
- 1973
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0689702531
- ISBN 13
- 9780689702532
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 3rd Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Americana, Kansas Related, Regional Histories
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Review
"This is social history at its best."--"American Quarterly"
"A towering landmark in our knowledge of the old West."--"San Francisco Chronicle" and "Examiner"
"Excellent . . . readable and persuasive. . . . One of the most refreshing and rewarding approaches to be applied to western history topics in many years, for [Dykstra] is asking basic questions about social process and the nature of urban society. . . . "--"American Historical Review"
"Those who have gleaned their knowledge of Texas cattle drives and frontier settlements from TV and Hollywood westerns are in for some surprises. . . . Robert Dykstra ''tells it as it really was'' in Wichita, Abilene, Ellsworth, Dodge City, and Caldwell during the two decades following the Civil War when entrepreneurs endeavored to capture the Texas cattle trade and utilize it as the economic base for building another Chicago or St. Louis on the edge of the Great Plains."--"Publishers Weekly"
"One of the most intelligent, interesting, and worthwhile contributions to the field of Western history in some time. [Dykstra] has managed to say something rather basic about American culture in general."--William H. Goetzmann, University of Texas at Austin--William H. Goetzmann
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