Cattle is King

Most often, when that phrase is used to describe the Old West, we think of Texas. And while cattle were important to Texas, we find it was just one of many factors that fed that state. Not so with Wyoming, according to Cattle Barons vs. Ink Slingers: the Decline and Fall of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association (1887-1894), a paper by Ross F. Collins of North Dakota State University in Fargo. He writes, “Wyoming, more than any other state in the Old West era, was built and dominated by a singl