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An Analysis Of Prices At Utah Livestock Auctions, Mcneil Glenn
An Analysis Of Prices At Utah Livestock Auctions, Mcneil Glenn
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
From the time of Don Hernando Cortez, livestock has been one of America's greatest industries. The cattle in Cortez's time were Moorish stock which had been bred for centuries in the Andalusian Plains of Spain.
Following this beginning in about 1521, cattle were bred and brought from South America to Mexico. By 1583 the first herds were grazing in what is now Texas.
This was the beginning of the livestock industry and with it carne the endless search for fertile valleys, waterholes, feed in the winter, long trail drives, cattle rustlers, railroads, range wars, and a great American institution, The …