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. Christopher Knowlton shows us how they and others like them could achieve so many outsized feats: killing millions of bison, building the first opera house on the open range, driving cattle by the thousands, and much more. Cattle Kingdom is a revelatory new view of the Old West.
- ISBN13 9781328470256
- Publish Date 5 June 2018 (first published 30 May 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 November 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Format Paperback
- Pages 464
- Language English