Elinore Pruitt Stewart’s Letters of a Woman Homesteader captures the rambunctious spirit of this woman pioneer who set o…
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How are Cattle Brands read, and how do Ranchers select them?
How are cattle brands read, and how do ranchers select them? John Rankin Rapid City, South Dakota Interpreting a brand t…
Mary Kidder Rak
Among the wide gamut of working women in the West were not only schoolteachers, nurses, restaurateurs, seamstresses, goo…
The Story of a Cattle Drive Nelson Story led the first drive from Texas to Montana.
Nelson Story was already a wealthy man in 1866. He’d moved to Montana a few years earlier and found gold. He used some…
Lost Sheep Review of Barbara G. Jaquay's story Where Have All the Sheep Gone?
Geographically, Arizona was an ideal place for sheep ranching. The flocks could be wintered in the balmy deserts then dr…
Arizona Cattle Company and the A1 Brand
The arrival of Mormon colonists from Utah in 1876 heralded the first permanent Anglo-American settlements in northern Ar…
The Chiricahua Cattle Company
One of the most revered names in the history of the cattle industry in Arizona is the Chiricahua Cattle Company or, as i…
The Baca Float #5 “The O RO Brand”
Bob Sharp, who managed the 257,000-acre Baca Float from 1937 to 1952 wrote in his Big Outfit: Ranching on the Baca Float…
The Babbitt Brothers & The CO Bar Ranch
It was a cold, wet February morning in 1886 when Dave and Billy Babbitt stepped down off the passenger train in the raw,…