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Includes index. |
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In the high country of the northern Wasatch Mountains, lies what is left of one of the West's largest ranches. Deseret Live Stock Company was reputed at various times to be the largest private landholder in Utah and the single biggest producer of wool in the world. The ranch began as a sheep operation, but as it found success, it also ran cattle. Incorporated in the 1890s by a number of northern Utah ranchers who pooled their resources, the company was at the height of successful operations in the mid-twentieth century when a young Dean Frischknecht, bearing a recent degree in animal science. |
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Print version record. |
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Prologue -- 1. Expanding horizons -- 2. Shearing -- 3. The high and glorious summer range -- 4. Great trail drives -- 5. Shaping up for winter and shipping to Skull Valley -- 6. Skull Valley -- 7. It happened during breeding season -- 8. Old-time range strategy -- 9. Lambing -- 10. Western hospitality -- 11. A new addition -- 12. Timely moves -- 13. The big snow -- 14. Approaching disaster -- 15. Looking up -- 16. A great recovery -- 17. All in the day's work -- 18. Moving up -- 19. The best of times -- 20. The dugway withdrawal -- 21. Major changes -- 22. End of an era -- 23. Bad news -- 24. Life's big decisions -- 25. Transitions. |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Frischknecht, W. Dean.
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Deseret Live Stock Company -- History.
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Frischknecht, W. Dean.
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Frischknecht, W. Dean
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Deseret Live Stock Company
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Sheep ranchers -- Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho) -- Biography.
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Ranch life -- Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho)
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Wasatch Range (Utah and Idaho) -- Biography.
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Éleveurs de moutons -- Wasatch, Monts (Utah et Idaho) -- Biographies.
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Vie au ranch -- Wasatch, Monts (Utah et Idaho)
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Wasatch, Monts (Utah et Idaho) -- Biographies.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Ranch life
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Sheep ranchers
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United States -- Wasatch Range
https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgMFvTdGTbDBGP3VMyjmd
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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History
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Frischknecht, W. Dean. Old Deseret Live Stock Company. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2008 9780874217117 0874217113 (DLC) 2008007384 (OCoLC)196310204 |
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9780874217124 (electronic bk.) |
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0874217121 (electronic bk.) |
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0874217113 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780874217117 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9781282445826 (online) |
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1282445820 |
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9780874217117 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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AU@ 000042769917 |
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AU@ 000051399431 |
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DEBSZ 396315968 |
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GBVCP 1008653101 |
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UKMGB 020153736 |
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