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America's Historic Stockyards: Livestock Hotels [Hardcover]

J'Nell Pate (Author)
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"J'Nell Pate provides a comprehensive look at America's stockyards between 1865 and the 1980s . . . marvelous telling of this fascinating story." -- Review of Texas Books

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  • Hardcover: 226 pages
  • Publisher: Texas Christian University Press (May 10, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0875653049
  • ISBN-13: 978-0875653044
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Old stockyards information, January 24, 2010
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Lots of interesting information on America's old stockyards. Lock collectors
will like this, too, as there are many old stockyard company locks.
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Symbolically and literally, the era of big stockyards in the United States began with the opening of the Chicago Union Stock Yards on Christmas Day 1865. Read the first page
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Fort Worth, Union Stock Yards, Kansas City, Sioux City, Oklahoma City, Sioux Falls, San Antonio, United States, New York, United Stockyards, World War, Big Four, South San Francisco, Big Five, Exposition Center, Kentucky Fair, Civil War, Mississippi River, Nelson Morris, Ohio River, Port City Stock Yards, Big Three, South Dakota, Jersey City, Louis National Stockyards
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