A History of Livestock Raising in the United States, 1607-1860

Excerpt from the report: The history of animal husbandry, as described in this report, is closely integrated with the general pattern of American development to 1860. In the acquisition and settlement of each frontier, livestock played a unique and vital role, providing the pioneers with transportation, food, draft power, and economic enterprises. Stock raising underwent many changes in the course of its westward march. In large measure, however, according to the author, the story is one of similarities rather than differences. The livestock industry of the Carolina Piedmont in the 1760's, for example, was remarkably similar to that of the Great Plains in the 1880's. Contents: The European Background of American Livestock; Stock Raising in Colonial New England; Stock Raising in the Middle Colonies; Stock Raising in the Southern Colonies; Stock Raising in the United States, 1775-1830; The Opening of the New West; The Spanish Southwest and California; The Beginnings of Stock Raising in Oregon Territory and Utah; Stock Raising in the United States during the Middle Era, 1830-1860; Literature Cited by James West fall Thompson; Selected References on the History of Livestock Raising in the United States to 1860, Published Since the Thompson Manuscript Was Completed.