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dc.contributor.advisorWorcester, Donald E.
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Benton Rayen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-11T15:10:56Z
dc.date.available2019-10-11T15:10:56Z
dc.date.created1984en_US
dc.date.issued1984en_US
dc.identifieraleph-233660en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/33591
dc.description.abstractThe story of F. G. Oxsheer is a history of one of the greatest pioneer cattlemen of the Southwest. For more than thirty years he reigned as a "cattle baron" in Texas and Mexico, at times controlling more than a million acres and thirty thousand head of stock. He was one of the earliest settlers on the Texas High Plains and probably the first to introduce barbed wire and windmills, pointing the way for settlement of the entire region. At the turn of the century Oxsheer and C. C. Slaughter amassed the largest herd of registered Hereford cattle in the United States, shifting the center of purebred cattle breeding from the Mid-West to Texas and permanently altering the state's beef cattle industry. In Chihuahua, Mexico, Oxsheer was a major cattleman as well as an advisor and liaison for many American investors, including Frank Rockefeller. He was also in contact with Mexican revolutionary figures such as Pancho Villa and Abraham Gonzalez. Oxsheer's life story, however, is more than a list of a cattleman's personal accomplishments. It is the story of one man's struggle against drouths, blizzards, financial panics, and gunslingers. In his early years he was a sheriff and "town tamer" in Central Texas. It is also a story of the changing beef cattle industry and of a rancher who adapted to these changes. Above all else, F. G. Oxsheer's life is the story of an indulgent man's love and obsession for his family. Faced with the mounting extravagance and costly business failures of his sons, he risked all in World War I by speculating in feeder cattle in hope of amassing a fortune that no spendthrift family could consume. Prices collapsed at the end of the war, however, and he lost nearly everything he owned. Old and nearly deaf, he started building yet another ranching network, but with the Great Depression and the death of his oldest son in 1931, this indomitable eighty-one-year-old rancher was finally defeated.
dc.format.extentvii, 232 leaves, bounden_US
dc.format.mediumFormat: Printen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofTexas Christian University dissertationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofAS38.W477en_US
dc.subject.lcshOxsheer, Fountain Goodlet, 1849-1931--(Fountain Goodlet)Cattle breeders--Texasen_US
dc.subject.lcshRanches--Texasen_US
dc.titleThe last cattle king: the story of F. G. Oxsheeren_US
dc.typeTexten_US
etd.degree.departmentDepartment of History
etd.degree.levelDoctoral
local.collegeAddRan College of Liberal Arts
local.departmentHistory
local.academicunitDepartment of History
dc.type.genreDissertation
local.subjectareaHistory
dc.identifier.callnumberMain Stacks: AS38 .W477 (Regular Loan)
dc.identifier.callnumberSpecial Collections: AS38 .W477 (Non-Circulating)
etd.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy
etd.degree.grantorTexas Christian University


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