Author: John R. Craig
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd
Keywords: commons, amp, lords, ranching
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1894974050
ISBN-13: 9781894974059

One of the best books on early ranching in North America, Ranching with Lords & Commons tells the fascinating story of the famous Oxley Ranch. John Craig, Oxley’s former manager, self-published the book in 1903, turning out 1,000 copies. Craig shows what the cattle business was really like when ranching got underway in the late 1800s in what would eventually become Alberta. He focuses on the struggles to set up the ranch on 100,000 acres first leased in 1881, and the trials and tribulations of working with absentee owners. At the time, he felt there was a need for his observations o

Author: Rennay Craats
Publisher: Weigl Publishers
Keywords: stories, life, real, ranching
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2002-12
List price: $24.45
ISBN-10: 1590360818
ISBN-13: 9781590360811

Briefly explores what it was like to live and work on a ranch in the latter half of the nineteenth century, including first-hand accounts from people who owned, managed, or just lived on ranches.

Author: Wes Jackson
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: new, ranching, farming, agriculture, roots
Number of Pages: 151
Published: 1980-01-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0803275625
ISBN-13: 9780803275621

"The plowshare may well have destroyed more options for future generations than the sword," writes Wes Jackson in a review of practices that have brought U.S. agriculture to the edge of disaster. Tillage has hastened the erosion of irreplaceable topsoil everywhere and a technology based on fossil fuels has increased yields for short-term profits, leaving crops ever more vulnerable to diseases, pests, and droughts. Such, says Jackson, is "the failure of success." As high-technology agriculture becomes more wasteful and expensive, more farmers are being forced off the land or into bankruptcy. J

Authors:Richard L. Knight, Wendell Gilgert, Ed Marston,
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: ecology, economics, culture, meridian, west, 100th, ranching
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 1559638273
ISBN-13: 9781559638272

Recommended by The Nature Conservancy magazine.Ranching West of the 100th Meridian offers a literary and thought-provoking look at ranching and its role in the changing West. The book’s lyrical and deeply felt narratives, combined with fresh information and analysis, offer a poignant and enlightening consideration of ranchers’ ecological commitments to the land, their cultural commitments to American society, and the economic role ranching plays in sustainable food production and the protection of biodiversity.The book begins with writings that bring to life the culture of ranching

Author: Andres Saenz
Publisher: TAMU Press
Keywords: san, cooperation, institute, texan, antonio, cultures, published, jose, daily, ranching, life, ranchos, tejano, fresnillo
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1585441635
ISBN-13: 9781585441631