Description: The Chisholm Trail follows McCoy's vision and the effects of the Chisholm Trail from post-Civil War Texas and Kansas to the multimillion-dollar beef industry that remade the Great Plains, the American diet, and the national and international beef trade.
Brief description:
James P. Ronda, is retired as Professor at the University of Tulsa, where he held the H. G. Barnard Chair of Western American History. He is widely recognized for his extensive scholarship on the Lewis and Clark expedition, including the pathbreaking Lewis and Clark Among the Indians. He is also a distinguished historian of the early American fur trade, Astoria and Empire. Professor Ronda's recent publications include The West the Railroads Made.
Review Quotes: "It is Sherow's attention to the small-grained, technical details of the Chisholm Trail that elevates his scholarship above a raft of other works that have continually drawn the same yawning conclusion. And by broadening the pathways trod by cowboys and their cattle to include wider networks of capital and political patronage, Sherow's book expands the reach of the cattle drive to reveal that the significance of the Chisholm Trail travels far beyond the I-35 corridor. More than just another volume of regional literature, The Chisholm Trail will interest a wide audience of readers; not only those in Kansas and Texas, but anyone concerned with the historical and environmental roots of industrialized animal agriculture."--Nebraska History