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December, 2006
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Livestock Hotels
America's Historic Stockyards

By J'Nell L. Pate
(Fort Worth, Tex.: Texas Christian University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 225. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

One of the first things I learned in graduate school was the difference between works of history and antiquarian studies. The former asked larger, interpretive questions of the material, while the later studied a single narrow topic for its own sake. This exceptionally modest monograph is most definitely a piece of antiquarianism. 1
      Stock yards, though no longer a part of the American landscape, once played a vital role in providing the nation's foodstuffs. The facilities operated next to, yet separate from, the great packing houses, and provided acres of pens to hold the animals that arrived by rail, there to be brokered, traded, and slaughtered. . . .
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