Description: This is a used hardback book with dust jacket in GOOD SOLID CONDITION—from a smoke-free environment. The photo you see is of the actual item you will receive. Please feel free to ask any questions you have about this listing. THE MATADOR LAND AND CATTLE COMPANY – by W.M. Pearce. Illustrated with black and white photographs. University of Oklahoma Press - ©1964, stated First Edition – Library of Congress No. 64-11321 – 244 pages – the book measures approximately 6 ¼ x 9 ¼. The Scots, a people noted for their frugality, invested with almost reckless abandon in American cattle-raising ventures in the 1880s. Among the companies thus financed, the Matador Land and Cattle Company was unique. It operated first and foremost as a business enterprise designed to produce profit over a long period of time; sun, sweat, and stable leather were only incidental to the primary purpose of raising quality beef. As a result of prudent management by the Scots, the Matador was the only foreign-controlled corporation devoted exclusively to cattle raising that survived to the middle of the twentieth century. When the company was organized in 1882 by a group of Dundee businessmen, its holdings consisted of a herd that H. H. Campbell had trailed to the headwaters of the Pease River and the 1,500,000 acres of West Texas range to which he had laid claim. After facing near disaster because of drought, a drop in the cattle market, and a severe blizzard, the Matador board in 1891 placed the management of their affairs in the hands of Murdo Mackenzie, later called by Theodore Roosevelt “the most influential of cattlemen.” So successful were his policies, as well as those of his successors, that the Matador brand was known from Texas to Canada. Matador cattle ranged over Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, as well as the home ranges in Texas, while for many years the company had its administrative headquarters in Colorado. When liquidation of the company began in 1951, the Scots’ property was valued at over $19,000,000. The book is in good condition; normal reading wear; binding tight; name and date written on front end pages, text pages unmarked--no writing, no underlining, no highlighting; pages are age discolored; corners bumped; top and bottom of spine bumped; ½ inch dent top edge front cover; normal shelf wear. The dust jacket is intact; jacket edges rubbed/chipped/torn, most tears have been taped; age discolored; normal shelf wear. Good solid copy. G&M stock #2fe(mcmurtry)
Price: 15.55 USD
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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