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Canada and the United States

Brooks Blevins. Cattle in the Cotton Fields: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 1998. Pp. xii, 219. $34.95.

Histories of the cattle industry have typically focused on the vast operations found in the Southwest and Great Plains where the terrain virtually dictated that those regions host large numbers of cattle. Few historians have attempted to document the ongoing development of stock raising in the rest of the country, particularly in the southern states, where cotton reigned. Although cattle raising was always a part of the southern American agrarian experience, it has not attracted much attention because it has lacked the size, romance, and setting enjoyed by the big ranches of the West. 1

Brooks Blevins has made a heroic attempt to begin to fill the gap in this, the first history of cattle raising in a southern state. Alabama has hosted wandering cattle since the Spanish first made forays through the region; its native tribes soon accumulated cattle, and settlers subsequently developed a fledgling industry, especially after the French settlements were established along the coast. . . .

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