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Book Review
| America's Historic Stockyards: Livestock Hotels. By J'Nell Pate. (Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2005. xiv + 225 pp. Illustrations, tables, glossary, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
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The weighmaster's scale ticket for this book might read: Mostly business history, with significant attention to urban history, the roles of both groups and individuals, and the hands-on side of marketing meat for American consumption. A choice grade and first-of-its-kind primer on the nation's stockyards era. This concise, straightforward survey is a natural for J'Nell Pate, whose award-winning Livestock Legacy: The Fort Worth Stockyards, 1887–1987 (College Station, TX, 1988) established her credentials. |
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