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How did some of the most savage and desolate islands in the world, scattered across the Pacific and Caribbean, become U.S. territories? The Great Guano Rush describes the fascinating and little-known history of this earliest example of American overseas expansion. 'Guano' (bird droppings) was the 19th century's most important fertilizer and in 1856 Congress, believing that American farmers were being gouged on guano sales by foreign monopolist...

Red meat--it's as American as apple pie. In a world where most hunger is alleviated with an occasional handful of grain, red meat's daily appearance on most American tables is a vivid symbol of national prosperity. The red-meat industry is also a powerful symbol. Undulating with the waves made by entrepreneurs and monopolies, shortages and gluts, scandal and government regulations, the industry mirrors the nation's turbulent economic history. ...

Skaggs has performed a service in focusing the attention of historians on an important but neglected aspect of the cattle business." W. Turrentine Jackson "This book definitely has its place both in business history and in western history." Joe B. Frantz, Journal of American History "By diligent research [Skaggs] has pieced together the careers of some twenty men who moved, according to his estimates, three­ fourths of all the cattle d...