[Gutenberg 1987] • The Outlet

[Gutenberg 1987] • The Outlet
Authors
Adams, Andy
Tags
western stories , fiction
Date
2017-04-10T00:00:00+00:00
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0.22 MB
Lang
en
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Font adjustments for farther to the westward was the home of the buffalo and the unconquered, nomadic tribes. A writer on that day, Mr. Emerson Hough, an acceptable authority, says: "The civil war stopped almost all plans to market the range cattle, and the close of that war found the vast grazing lands of Texas fairly covered with millions of cattle which had no actual or determinate value. They were sorted and branded and herded after a fashion, but neither they nor their increase could be converted into anything but more cattle. The demand for a market became imperative."