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Ranching In Western North Dakota, 1887-1920, Scott R. Neevel
Ranching In Western North Dakota, 1887-1920, Scott R. Neevel
Theses and Dissertations
Several historians have dealt with the topic of ranching in the American West, but generally they have presented a broad overview of what took place over the entire western United States. Those who have dealt with ranching in western North Dakota generally have covered the early 1880s, but they have used the calamitous winter of 1886-1887 as a stopping point.
The period from 1887 on through the first two decades of the twentieth century was an era marked by recovery of the stock industry, the change from open to closed range, and the change from the old open range methods …