{"product_id":"cattle-kingdom-the-hidden-history-of-the-cowboy-west-1328470253","title":"Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1328470253\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Knowlton, Christopher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 AmericaThe 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 JournalKnowlton deftly balances close-ups and birds-eye views. We learn countless details . . . More important, we learn why the story played out as it did. - New York Times Book ReviewThe best one-volume history of the legendary era of the cowboy and cattle empires in thirty years. - True West\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51895464952096,"sku":"NEW1328470253","price":18.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81YvokKwBIL.jpg?v=1782034693","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/cattle-kingdom-the-hidden-history-of-the-cowboy-west-1328470253","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}