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Cowboy country
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The west gave us our best-loved national hero, the cowboy. Cowboy country is about this proud man on horseback and his equally colorful employer, the rancher, who have both played such a large part in putting food on America's table. The text carries the reader back 200 years to a string of ranchos along the California coastline, stocked with semi-wild longhorns and operated by the Spanish settlers. It also tells of the cattle drives to California after the gold rush of 1849 involving 300,000 head. Some of these trail routes were as long as 2,000 miles and took over six months to complete. The story continues into the San Joaquin Valley and gives the history of early ranches, including the Miller and Lux Ranch, Kern County Land Company, and the Tejon Ranch, which has continued to be one of California's leading ranches since 1859. Much of Cowboy country takes place on the author's homerange, the Kern River Valley, over the past 110 years.
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