ST PAUL ― For 100 years and more, the Cattle Barn at the Minnesota State Fair has been a temporary home for thousands of cattle and the exhibitors showing them. Last year was the 100-year anniversary ...

Cattle and humans have an intertwined history; people have been raising cattle for meat and hides for thousands of years. After domesticating these animals, people began utilizing milk from cows as an ...

Scott Schaake says he’s not a history buff—until it comes to the livestock industry. Schaake, associate professor of Beef Cattle Production and Management at Kansas State University, gave producers a ...

Groups representing the historic American cattle drives have pledged to work together to promote the valuable role of the cattle drives in the history of the Old West. On Nov. 1, in Dodge City, Kansas ...

Weekly Peoples Cause June 15, 1907. A gentleman who came down from Lyonsville said that during the visit of the Diamond Match Company officers to that place a short time ago the work of taking up the ...

"Don't try to understand 'em, just rope, throw and brand 'em. Soon we'll be livin' high and wide." Frankie Laine's song of the Old West, and theme for the "Rawhide" TV series, pictured cattle and ...

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WHITEHORSE RANCH, Ore. — Roosters crow at sunrise, coyotes howl after sunset and the work in between barely disturbs the tranquility of Whitehorse Ranch. Owner David Herman shows a guest around the ...

The demise of the bison -- Cattle for cash -- Birth of the cattle town -- Cattle-town high jinks -- Lighting the fuse -- Cowboy aristocrats -- From stockyard to steakhouse -- The rise of Cheyenne -- ...

Shortly after the Titanic sank in 1912, a local newspaper received an interesting letter expressing condolences for the passing of the ship’s captain, E.J. Smith. Its writer went on to state that as a ...