Xit: A Story of Land, Cattle, and Capital in Texas and Montana

by Michael M. Miller and Miller

Book Overview

The Texas state constitution of 1876 set aside three million acres of public land in the Texas Panhandle in exchange for construction of the state's monumental red-granite capitol in Austin. That land became the XIT Ranch, briefly one of the most productive cattle operations in the West. The story behind the legendary XIT Ranch, told in full in this book, is a tale of Gilded Age business and politics at the very foundation of the American cattle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806192011
• ISBN13: 9780806192017
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"