America's historic stockyards : livestock hotels /
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| Author / Creator: | Pate, J'Nell L. |
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| Imprint: | Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, c2005. |
| Description: | xiv, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5818104 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Stockyards activities
- Ch. 2. Early livestock markets - colonial to 1850s
- Ch. 3. Stockyards "companies" emerge - 1860s to 1920s
- Ch. 4. Uncle Sam regulate stockyards - 1930s to World War II
- Ch. 5. "Hotel" occupancy dwindles - 1950s to the present
- Ch. 6. Looking forward
- Ch. 7. Early market cities
- Ch. 8. Midwestern markets
- Ch. 9. Later stockyards
- Ch. 10. Other stockyards.
