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Published during the height of the open range era, this brand book documents the registered cattle brands of Wyoming's major ranching operations just months before the devastating winter of 1886-87 that would transform the cattle industry forever. The Wyoming Stock Growers Association wielded enormous economic and political power during this period, and their brand books serve as essential primary sources for understanding the structure and organization of the territorial cattle industry. 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Black and white facsimile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis facsimile reproduction presents the complete 1888 Northern California and Southern Oregon Stock Directory, a comprehensive registry of cattle brands, livestock owners, and ranching operations across the northern Sacramento Valley and southern Oregon border region. Published during the height of the open range cattle era, this directory documents the brands, earmarks, and ownership records of ranchers operating in Shasta, Tehama, Butte, and neighboring northern California counties, along with Jackson and Josephine counties in southern Oregon. As a primary source for understanding the organization and extent of the late 19th-century cattle industry in this region, this directory provides invaluable genealogical information, brand documentation, and insights into the economic structure of frontier ranching communities. 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Written in their own words, these letters and memoirs from members of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association offer invaluable primary source material documenting the challenges, triumphs, and daily realities of establishing the cattle industry across Wyoming's open ranges. The Association, founded in 1873, wielded enormous political and economic power during Wyoming's territorial period and early statehood, and these personal recollections from its members provide an authentic window into that formative era. 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Unlike statewide brand registries, this county-level volume offers an intimate and visually compelling record of a single ranching community, presenting each registered brand illustrated by a silhouette of a cattle or horse showing the exact location of the brand on the animal, accompanied by the owner's name, location, and the range where the animal runs. Horse brands are documented for towns and communities across the county including Yreka, Fort Jones, Oro Fino, Etna, Bogus, Little Shasta, Klamathon, and others, capturing the full geographic spread of Siskiyou County's livestock operations from the Klamath River country to the Scott Valley. The volume also includes an index of brands organized by owner's name, and an extract of California's Estray Law governing the taking up, confining, and claiming of stray livestock — providing important legal context for the stockmen of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis facsimile reprint is an essential resource for genealogists tracing Siskiyou County and Northern California ranching families, historians researching the range livestock industry and rural community life of the California-Oregon border region, and collectors of California and Western Americana. Brand books of this kind — illustrated, county-specific, and combining brand registries with legal and indexing material — are among the rarest categories of Western historical documents, seldom found outside of state and county archives. 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Unlike statewide brand books, this volume offers an intimate look at a single county's ranching community, combining the association's constitution and by-laws — which governed the conduct, membership, and cooperative interests of its stockmen members — with a registry of cattle brands, marks, and earmarks belonging to the ranchers and operations of Converse County. Together these two components paint a vivid picture of the organized ranching culture of the Wyoming range at a moment when the open range era was giving way to fenced and deeded land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis reprint is an invaluable resource for genealogists tracing Converse County and Wyoming ranching families, historians researching the range cattle industry and the development of stockgrowers' associations across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain West, and collectors of Wyoming and Western Americana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\". 134 pages. 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