Boxcar Boys: Riding the Rails with Bovine Beauties

by Ronald Francis Eustice

Beginning with the earliest days of the railroad, transportation of livestock was an important for farmers, businesses related to agriculture and to the railroads themselves. At first, livestock was transported in boxcars to packing plants at major terminals. Once herd books were established for purebred livestock, shows and fairs became an important way of promotion. From the 1890s until the late 1960s, show cattle were transportation of rail. It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 109609553X
• ISBN13: 9781096095538
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 2.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"