Introduction
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Book I. The Reluctant Immigrant
1. First Cow upon the Plains
2. Noble Ancestry
3. The Cow Walks Again
Book II. Individual Ranch Spreads
1. Some Dedicated Men
2. Pulling for New Grass
3. The Moving Trails
4. The Indian Summer of Old Dodge
5. Deepening Dedication
Book III. Organizations, Corporations, and Buggy Bosses
1. Desciples under the Oak and the Cottonwood
2. The Bonanza
3. The Big Die-Ups
4. The National Trail
5. Of the Giants -- The XIT
Book IV. Private Empire
1. The Threat
2. Stetsoned Crusaders
3. Scattered to the Winds
4. Cow Horse and Betting Blood
5. Kings of the Fenced Range
Book V. Beef Factories and Festivals
1. New Breed--
2. Ritual and Restoration
Notes
Bibliography
Index