[Sca-cooks] Harvest times

[Daniel Phelps]

Was written:

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The really nasty one
was "The Big Die of '86, that essentially killed the free range cattle
industry.  Some of the Worst blizzards on record are those of 1885-86
and 1886-87.
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I had always heard it was the invention of barbed wire and the
increased use of fences across the American plains.  I did pick up a
few books about ranching history and vaqueros at yesterday's UT Book
Sale and in previous years. I guess I'll have to find the time to
delve into some of these.

Hmmm... well there are two books that I can recommend one is a two volume
set often collected in a single volume which are the recorded, in the early
20th century, remembrances of IIRC the "trail drivers" association.  The
second is "We Pointed Them North; Recollections of a Cowpuncher" by E.C
"Teddy Blue" Abbott and Helena Huntington Smith, The Lakeside Press, R.R
Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago.   Regards the first I do not recall the
exact title, I had a copy and gave it to a friend many years ago.

Daniel