The Chisholm Trail Volume 3

James E. Sherow is University Distinguished Professor and Professor of History at Kansas State University, Manhattan, and the author of numerous books and articles, including The Grasslands of the United States: An Environmental History and the award-winning Railroad Empire across the Heartland: Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward Journey. James P. Ronda, is retired as Professor at the University of Tulsa, where he held the H. G. Barnard Chair of Western American History. He is widely recognized for his extensive scholarship on the Lewis and Clark expedition, including the pathbreaking Lewis and Clark Among the Indians. He is also a distinguished historian of the early American fur trade, Astoria and Empire. Professor Ronda's recent publications include The West the Railroads Made.

"This engaging book, by a leading historian of America's central plains, clearly and beautifully renders a sense of place and explains how the Texas cattle trade contributed to transforming wild prairie grasslands into today's domesticated landscape."-Jeffrey K. Stine Curator for Environmental History, Smithsonian Institution, and coeditor of Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans"Jim Sherow's new study of Joseph McCoy and the Chisolm Trail deftly spans the continent, synthesizing economic and environmental histories to reveal the fascinating evolution of one of the nation's first big businesses-cattle. As Sherow reveals, beef transformed America and Americans."-Sara Dant author of Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West "It is Sherow's attention to the small-grained, technical details of the Chisholm Trail that elevates his scholarship above a raft of other works that have continually drawn the same yawning conclusion. And by broadening the pathways trod by cowboys and their cattle to include wider networks of capital and political patronage, Sherow's book expands the reach of the cattle drive to reveal that the significance of the Chisholm Trail travels far beyond the I-35 corridor. More than just another volume of regional literature, The Chisholm Trail will interest a wide audience of readers; not only those in Kansas and Texas, but anyone concerned with the historical and environmental roots of industrialized animal agriculture."-Nebraska History "This is an exhaustively researched and exquisitely written book... Sherow's book, centered on the consumer demand and financial webs that facilitated the cattle trade and its subsequent environmental impact, will likely stand as the definitive work on the subject. It is highly recommended."-Panhandle-Plains Historical Review "The Chisholm Trail brings fresh eyes to the impact of the cattle era and McCoy's role in that history. It is a welcome addition."- Southwestern Historical Quarterly