Christopher KnowltonVezi magazinul Libris- O stea, bazat pe 1 voturi
The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written.
Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West.
A must-read -- Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed.
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.
This is a revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made.
Knowlton writes well about all the fun stuff: trail drives, rambunctious cow towns, gunfights and range wars .
He] enlists all of these tropes in support of an intriguing thesis: that the romance of the Old West arose upon the swelling surface of a giant economic bubble .
Cattle Kingdom is The Great Plains by way of The Big Short .
-- Wall Street Journal Knowlton deftly balances close-ups and bird's-eye views.
We learn countless details .
More important, we learn why the story played out as it did.
-- New York Times Book Review The best one-volume history of the legendary era of the cowboy and cattle empires in thirty years.
-- True West.
