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Cattle in the Cotton Fields: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama. By Brooks Blevins. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998. xvi, 219 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-8173-0940-3.)

In Cattle in the Cotton Fields, Brooks Blevins traces the history of cattle raising in Alabama from its sixteenth-century origins, when Spanish explorers and missionaries brought cattle into the region, to the present day. Moving chronologically, Blevins explains the variations in cattle raising in different regions of Alabama, but his primary focus is upon the so-called black belt, which displaced the piney woods as the locus of innovation and change within the industry during the Progressive Era. . . .

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